SB Pompano man convicted of kidnapping girl, 10 Fort Lauderdale News, Friday, Feb. 5, 1982 LORD CALVERT mwintiu XI GILBEY'S V0DXA JIM BEAM BOURDON VniiMUiAn 2 99 9 ,199 If Li 1 SALE llJ 750 ML SAL 0 SALE LITER I rH LITER! By Andrew Fromaa Suff Writer 3 Ronald Hogan, who claimed he was a rescuer, not an attacker, was convicted Thursday of kidnapping and attempting to molest a 10-year-old girt. The tall, mustachioed former modeling agency talent scout testified that be saved the girl last July 13 from two Colombian drug dealers who abducted her because her father owed them money. But the jury believed the girl, who testified that i Hogan, posing as a policeman, picked her up in Fort Lauderdale and took her to his Pompano Beach apartment, where he took off hef clothes and molested After deliberating more than three hours, the six-member jury found Hogan guilty of kidnapping and attempted sexual battery. Hogan was charged with sexual battery on a female child under the age of II, a crime punishable automatically by a prison term of 25 years without parole.
The attempted sexual battery conviction carries a term of up to 30 years. Kidnapping carries a maximum penalty of life in prison. Hogan will be sentenced March 12 by Broward Circuit Judge John Ferris. "I thought the state bad proved the offense as charged. But I never second-guess a jury," said Assistant State Attorney Joel Lazarus after the verdict.
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They had a big favor to ask me," said Hogan, 36. They had picked up (the father's) little girl and they wanted me to hold her until they went to negotiate with her parents." But Hogan said be did not hold the girl at his apartment, 3291 Crystal Lake Drive. Instead be al-' lowed her to clean up in his bathroom and then took her home. "We're not saying that Ron is a good Samaritan," said Hogan's defense attorney, Allan Marks. "He's just a scared man trying to help.
He did the best be could to help and he'shouldn't be punished." "Ron told you what happened in a reasonable fashion," he said. "Remember, there is no corroboration for what (the girl) said. The victim had testified Wednesday that she was picked up by Hogan in his black Corvette as she waited for a camp bus at Riverland Road and Woodside Drive in Fort Lauderdale. She said he claimed to be a policeman investigating a virus among children at her camp, but instead took her to bis apartment and molested her. Marks called the evidence to support the girl's claims "flimsy," and called her "a typical young person who wants to help and please adults" by telling them what they want to hear.
Lazarus told the jurors: "The story you heard from Mr. Hogan, ladies and gentlemen, was a direct insult to your intelligence." Cash vanishes during trial, turns up again By Andrew Froman Start Writer Fort Lauderdale police are investigating the sudden disappearance, and equally sudden reappearance three hours later, of $800 from a Broward courtroom Wednesday in the midst of a drug trafficking trial. The money was part of $12,500 wrapped in bundles and used as evidence in the trial of Ronald Joseph Pomella, 42, of 5210 Bayview Drive, Fort Lauderdale. Broward Circuit Judge George Shahood, who was hearing the case, said the money was discovered missing during closing arguments, between 5:30 p.m. and 6 p.m.
Shahood said the trial had resumed after a lunch break at 2 p.m. and his court clerk counted the money and found it was all there. "The clerk is responsible for anything received into evidence," he said. "In line with that responsibility I guess they count it from time to time, after breaks or recesses, overnight. "We were in session all afternoon.
We took one or two breaks," Shahood said. "About 5:30 or 6 p.m. she recounted it and found $800 missing." The judge recessed the trial at 7 p.m. Fort Lauderdale police arrived to investigate about 8 p.m., and at 10:30 p.m. Shahood received a phone call at home that the money had been found.
Fort Lauderdale Police Chief Leo Callahan said Detective Robert Gerlach went to the courthouse and several of the people he spoke with outside courtroom 353 they may need to take a polygraph examination. "Later in the day (about 9:30 p.m.) we got a call from a man who said he left something in the courtroom and had asked one of the maintenance men to let him back in. This (money) was found on the floor near one of the doors," Callahan said. The chief would not identify the person, but he acknowledged the man was either working in the courtroom during the trial or had access to the courtroom during the day. The money was returned to the courtroom Thursday morning.
Callahan said the investigation is continuing. Pomella, the defendant in the case, was convicted Thursday afternoon after a seven-day trial of trafficking in marijuana. He is scheduled to be sentenced March 17. 2 cities: We can't afford to help port By Kathleen Pellegrino Starr Writer Fort Lauderdale and Dania officials said there is no property tax money left over to share with Port Evergaldes for providing municipal services in an area where the port and city limits overlap. Three cities Fort Lauderdale, Dania and Hollywood and the county government claim parts of the port, which has asked for a share of the property taxes collected.
Port officials have claimed they are paying to provide some services which the cities should provide because the cities are collecting property taxes. However, Dania City Manager Dick Marant said "the cost of the services far exceeds" the $10,181 his city will collect this fiscal year for serving 50 acres in the port with police and fire protection and with zoning supervision. Marant is one of seven members of a committee trying to resolve the problems of overlapping jurisdiction. Committee member Virginia Young, mayor of Fort Lauderdale, said her city collects $172,000 in property taxes from the 413 acres of Fort Lauderdale within the port jurisdictional area. In 1981.
the police responded to 96 calls, the fire department to four calls and the maintenance department spent $6,900 repairing street lights, she said, and "That cost more than $172,000." Hollywood Deputy City Manager John Kooser said his city collected $700,000 in property taxes in 1977, the most recent figure available. Hollywood has the largest area within the port approximately 1,170 acres. The police responded to 180 calls and the fire department to three fires and three rescue calls. Hollywood City Commissioner Cathleen Anderson said the city Is collecting more In taxes than it is spending for services. Committee member Jack Fried, a county commissioner, said he had not yet gotten county figures on the amount of property taxes collected on the 192 unincorporated acres within the port.
Officials said they hoped to have those figures when they meet again a week from today. 0333 Truck kills Deerfield man A Deerfield Beach man was killed Thursday after being run over by a city garbage truck. Harry Cherniak, 77, of Ashby A-27 in Century" Village, was dead at the scene of the 12:40 p.m. accident at Century Village Boulevard and Berkshire Drive, police said. Cherniak was returning to his home after grocery shopping when he was struck by a truck driven by Eugene Rodmond Bowles, 34, of 399 SW 13th Place, No.
609, Deerfield Beach. Police said Cherniak bad tried to cut around the truck before it pulled onto the boulevard from Berkshire Drive, but did not make it in time. The victim was hit by the truck's rear wheels, police said. No charges have been filed against the driver. Dan Christensen Grand theft charges dropped Suspected master swindler James Dwain Ashley got one break Thursday when grand theft charges against him were dismissed in the middle' of his trial by Broward Circuit Judge Robert Andrews.
Ashley, 41, of 2941 State Road 84, southwest of Fort Lauderdale, was convicted last year of selling phony gold certificates and still faces multiple fraud charges for allegedly winning loans from local banks by claiming he had collateral in non-existant Caribbean banks. In court this week, Ashley was charged with grand theft for possession of two pieces of heavy-duty farm equipment, allegedly stolen on his orders from farms in Collier County. The judge called the investigation of the case, which was conducted by Fort Lauderdale police, "the worst criminal investigation I have ever seen." Andrew Froman Bookstore ruling expected U.S. District Judge Norman C. Roettger Jr.
was expected to rule today on whether to hear the arguments of two adult bookstore attorneys who are seeking an emergency injunction to prevent Fort Lauderdale officials from enforcing the city's p*rnography ordinance. Before deciding whether to grant the emergency order, Roettger will rule whether to await current state court cases filed by the city against the bookstores. City commissioners have declared seven adult bookstores public nuisances, and have asked the court to affirm their decision and allow them to close the businesses. Dennis Kneale More clothes raids expected More raids on stores suspected of selling bogus designer clothes are expected after federal marshals raided a local business and seized Calvin Klein labeled clothes suspected to be fakes. Agents confiscated about 40 tops and several Calvin Klein name from the Clothes Connection, at 5991 Ravenswood Road, north of Hollywood, in an early afternoon raid Thursday as part of a civil suit filed by the famous New York designer.
Klein will ask for a temporary restraining order to stop sales of the allegedly bogus clothes at a hearing Feb. 12. Martha Brannigan Man runs bordello police Francis Yeves Molina, 29, of 505 SE 20th Fort Lauderdale, was arrested on a charge of operating a house of prostitution after a woman told police she pays him $5 to use his apartment for her business. Broward County Court Judge John T. Luzzo Thursday set Molina's bond at $1,000 on the charge, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison, and $100 on a charge of possessing a small amount of suspected marijuana.
According to court records, Fort Lauderdale police were called to the area of Molina's apartment Wednesday night, learned from the woman that she pays to use the apartment and arrested him. Police said they found 13 suspected marijuana cigarettes in the possession of the suspect, who is an unemployed security guard. Joe Kollin County pushes law's repeal TALLAHASSEE Broward legislators are moving ahead with plans to repeal a state law passed last year creating the controversial Broward Government Management and Efficiency Study Committee and have advised the Florida Attorney General to hold off pursuing a lawsuit against the Broward County Com mission over the committee. The repeal la part of a compromise worked out between the commission and the Broward Legislative Delegation to resolve a year-long dispute over the study committee. The county had sued to halt the-study committee after It passed the Legislature last year and the Florida Attorney General is defending the study committee law, Irwin Speizer 4, PABST WATERFORD TAYLOR CALIFORNIA CELLARS BLUE RIBBON IRISH CREAM All 99 99 t89lf II SALE! 1.5 SALE 1 Li SALE 6 PK 12 OZ CAN RHINE ROSE 750 ML! 1 iCHABLIS BURGUNDY SPINELU WINES BUDWEISER DRAMBUIE IFOR 110.00 it BEER LIQUEUR 49 1 SALE! 1.5L SALE A M-.
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