It also includes a strike through any fugitive caught the week before, and new mugs to replace those. Det. Dan Hutto, special investigator with Manatee County Sheriffs and a Crime Stoppers coordinator, sends me an email with all this information every Friday.
This afternoon, Detective Dan's email came with word that three fugitives had been nailed this week. Thinking that's the most we've had in one week, I forwarded the email to our news desk, suggesting a story. I didn't even look at the names.
1A News Editor Kelly Lipp let out a holler: "That's the guy suspected of beating Sister Nora!"
Police reporter Paradise Afshar quickly confirmed it: Eliseo Ortiz, 51, was arrested Thursday by the Tarpon Springs Police Department.
The plight of Sister Nora touched us all, and we wrote a dozen stories or columns, including this blog.
When columnist Vin Mannix contacted Sister Nora this evening, she took the news in stride.
“I forgave him long ago. Forgiveness is the Christian thing to do. It’s the more healing thing than keeping a grudge,” she said. “I hope they won’t be too hard on him. ”
Watch for the full story in Saturday's editions.
Now this footnote:
Detective Dan also indicates each week whether any of the arrests were the result of a tip to their hotline (none of this week's were). But one of our favorites was just a couple weeks ago, when Trevor Christeson, wanted on charges of grand theft, came off the list.
Christeson turned himself in, Detective Dan informed us, after he saw his photo in the Herald.
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Sister Nora gets it. Oh that the 83% of those in this nation that clain Christ would.
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