20 Years ago

20 YEARS AGO

The controversial federal law that required recreational boaters to pay a fee for a decal went into effect, but few boaters had paid it.
 
Eighteen men pleaded guilty in federal court for smuggling 18,000 pounds of marijuana into the Florida Keys from Columbia.
 
100 YEARS AGO

Deputy Sheriff Ed Sheeran raided a blind tiger run (a speakeasy operation) by Cripple George on Big Pine Key. A considerable quantity of whiskey and beer was confiscated.
 
100 YEARS AGO

Deputy Sheriff Ed Sheeran raided a blind tiger run (a speakeasy operation) by Cripple George on Big Pine Key. A considerable quantity of whiskey and beer was confiscated.

No problem, it seems from reliable "local sources" recently that they made more. :sifone:
 
Here is a pic I had never seen before of the Maine being removed from Havana harbor.
 

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A man driving in the 400 block of Duval Street had his windshield broken by a bar stool dropped from the top of the La Concha Hotel.
 
20 YEARS AGO

A man was arrested after trying to outrun a police car on his bicycle after he had run a red light and two stop signs.

Key West Mayor Capt. Tony Tarracino celebrated his 75th birthday at the Key West Golf Course.
 
A veterinarian who pleaded guilty to helping import 18,000 pounds of marijuana was still running his business in Key West.
 
A homeless man threw a bicycle into the windshield of a car on Duval Street for no apparent reason.
 
20 YEARS AGO

Two fire trucks and two police cars responded to a fire reported in the 100 block of Duval Street to find it was a street performer practicing fire-eating.



A local man was found innocent of assaulting a Key West police officer. He had claimed he was arrested because he was on the "enemy list."
 
A performer at Mallory Square Sunset Celebration was attacked by a jewelry maker in a dispute over assigned spaces.
 
The Monroe County Sheriff's Office and Florida Department of Law Enforcement, in an all-day effort, seized 3 pounds of marijuana growing in the Lower Keys.
 
The Monroe County Sheriff's Office and Florida Department of Law Enforcement, in an all-day effort, seized 3 pounds of marijuana growing in the Lower Keys.
While spending all day for 3lb bust 2 seniors drove past them with 60 kilos of coke:USA:
 
A man was arrested for burglary of a house on the day he was released from two years in jail for another house burglary.
 
A man was arrested for burglary of a house on the day he was released from two years in jail for another house burglary.

I guess his plan he'd worked on for two years wasn't much better than his old plan......
 
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