Your Transition Team has worked diligently over the past week to find a solution to issue of a registered sexual offender living amongst us. Although it has been less than a week we have some positive news to share with the community.
1. Both the Transition Team and OPD measured the distance from the offenders house to our playground finding it to be 854 feet and 850 feet both well below the 1000 feet required for offenders to be distanced from playgrounds. When informed of this Mr. Delaguardia's probation officer informed a member of the Transition Team, "HE MUST MOVE OUT OF YOUR COMMUNITY AS HE IS NOT ALLOWED TO RESIDE HERE AS HIS UNIT IS LESS THAN THE REQUIRED DISTANCE FROM A PLAY AREA BY FLORIDA LAW."
2. Using public information it was determined that Mr. Delaguardia used false information when obtaining his mortgage for his property. This has been relay to Sun Trust who is investigating the situation with the possibility of revoking his mortgage.
Where these are some very positive steps in having this offender removed from our community he has yet to leave and thus our continued diligence is required. Continue to watch your children, watch your streets, watch your community and if you see ANYTHING suspicious please call 9 1 1 immediately.
1. Both the Transition Team and OPD measured the distance from the offenders house to our playground finding it to be 854 feet and 850 feet both well below the 1000 feet required for offenders to be distanced from playgrounds. When informed of this Mr. Delaguardia's probation officer informed a member of the Transition Team, "HE MUST MOVE OUT OF YOUR COMMUNITY AS HE IS NOT ALLOWED TO RESIDE HERE AS HIS UNIT IS LESS THAN THE REQUIRED DISTANCE FROM A PLAY AREA BY FLORIDA LAW."
2. Using public information it was determined that Mr. Delaguardia used false information when obtaining his mortgage for his property. This has been relay to Sun Trust who is investigating the situation with the possibility of revoking his mortgage.
Where these are some very positive steps in having this offender removed from our community he has yet to leave and thus our continued diligence is required. Continue to watch your children, watch your streets, watch your community and if you see ANYTHING suspicious please call 9 1 1 immediately.
3 comments:
Bohn and Carol Said....
We would like to specifically thank Mark Fairweather who initially brought this to or attention and brought home the measuring device that verified the distance. He and Bohn walked together to verify the distance and found it to be less than that required by Florida Law...Tom Beard
for his prompt posting of this persons picture and information to inform our community...Curtis Brown
for his volunteer efforts of various times of driving through our Community looking out for the safety of our children at the school bus stops...Our daughter Susan Ellzey for taking the time to do an in depth internet search to find additional information that was beneficial in persuing this matter...Diane Hilt Hicks for her contribution of information and contacting Offender's Probation Officer and relaying information to us...and finally Our Community Laision Officer Edgar Malave and Officer Thomas O'Day for their assistance and support in contacting the proper people on our behalf...In closing We, Tom and Marucci are asking for more members of our community to be involved in our Neighborhood Watch that is beneficial in solving problems of this nature in our community...Please everyone attend our Neighborhood Watch Meeting to be held on October 29th.
Once again thanks to all those in or Community for their help....
I really love when I see neighbors working together for the same goal, keeping our community safe. This is the way that everything should be handled!.
My congratulations to Mr. Fairweather for being so vigilant and to every single person that contributed to bringing this issue to light!
Angela C.
It's shocking for my wife and me to learn about this only almost a month after it was first brought up in this blog. Our first thought was that there really was not a mechanism in place to effectively inform all parents in the neighborhood when something like this happens. It is even more worrisome considering the number of young children living at Caramella Drive and the adjacent Gelato Drive.
When we were living in another state, there was one such incident in our neighborhood when a sex offender moved in. The policemen went door-to-door handing out flyers to inform every resident in the area. We wonder if a similar approach can be legally used here to notify those who may not have followed this space closely.
We need to do something quickly and decisively. The Anthony Sowell case in Cleveland on the news today shows us why we cannot take any chance at all.
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