FORT PIERCE — Some city commissioners are questioning why city manager David Recor didn’t include a job he held in Alaska on his resume and city application when he applied for deputy city manager in Fort Pierce.

But Recor said issues surrounding his Alaska job are misunderstandings.

Recor worked as a planning and land-use director for Matanuska-Susitna Borough, AK, from March 12, 2003, to April 14, 2003, according to Borough’s Human Resources Manager Rob McFerron. Recor was hired as Fort Pierce deputy city manager in April 2005 by former city manager Dennis Beach. Recor was then promoted to city manager in October when Beach retired.

Three days before Recor resigned from his job in Alaska, the Palmer Police Department arrested and charged him with shoplifting. The charges were later dropped and the case was dismissed, court records show. (more…)

JENSEN BEACH — A Port St. Lucie couple were accused Saturday of using their child’s stroller to help them shoplift clothing, according to a report released Tuesday.

Valencia Christine Ivy, 18, and Michael Jenkins Jr., 20, both of the 5600 block of Northwest Macedo Boulevard, have been charged with retail theft.

The report states security at Sears in the Treasure Coast Square mall saw the couple taking items from clothing racks and stuffing them in the bottom of their child’s stroller.

Security confronted the couple when they tried to leave without paying and recovered $246 worth of merchandise from the stroller, the report says.

Deputies issued Ivy and Jenkins notices to appear and released them at the scene.