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No criminal charges
for driver who hit
family, police say
❑The driver swerved to
avoid another car and hit
the family on a sidewalk.
By Will Wellona He ran my whole family
over. My daughter died
OF THE SENTINEL STAFF
—and all he is going to
WINTER SPRINGS — After a be charged with is not
monthlong probe, investigators havin the proper tag.
said Thursday they are not recom-
mending any criminal charges —Sandra Wilding,
against the drivers in an accident dead girl's mother
that took the life of a 6-year-old
girl.
Cassandra Wilding died from trying to avoid the other vehicle.
massive head injuries Dec.6,a day Pieper said that investigators
after she was struck while walking found that no other charges were
with her family on a sidewalk warranted.
along the south side of State Road Cassandra's mother, Sandra
934 just east of Belle Avenue. Wilding, 28, was stunned Thurs-
A 1970 Ford Maverick hit the day when she learned Jones may
Wilding family after it swerved to get only a traffic ticket.
miss a car pulling into its path. "That is it," Wilding said. "I
Investigators recommended don't understand that at all.
that the driver of the Maverick, "He [Jones] ran my whole fam-
Steven Ray Jones, 16, of Winter tly over. My daughter died —and
Springs be charged with driving a all he is going to be charged with
car with a tag not assigned to the is not having the proper tag," she
vehicle. said as she began to cry.
Kathleen C. Savage, 47 of De- Wilding suffered two broken
Land pulled in front of Jones at ribs. Her 3-month-old baby, An-
Belle Avenue,police said. thony, suffered a concussion after
Investigators recommended being thrown from a stroller. A
that Savage be charged with vio- third child, 8-year-old Andrew,
lating the right of way. The report was not seriously injured.
was forwarded Thursday to the The family was walking a few
State Attorney's Office for review blocks from their home on Helen
and formal charges. Street.They were going to pick up
Winter Springs police Capt. Bob a fourth child at a day-care center
Pieper said an investigation re- before heading to Winter Springs
vealed that Jones was not speed- Elementary School,where Cassan-
ing. Witnesses confirmed that dra was to be recognized as stu-
Jones lost control of the car while dent of the month.
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13-year-old girl killed
by car in Winter Springs
WINTER SPRINGS — A 13-
year-old Winter Springs girl was
struck by a car and killed near her
home Thursday evening.
Taira Ramos, 309 San Gabriel
Ave., was killed shortly before 7
p.m.when she was hit by a car at
State Road 419 and Sherry Ave-
nue,Winter Springs police said.
No information was released
about the driver of the car. There
were reports that a second car
may have struck the girl and not
stopped, but that had not been
confirmed Thursday night, police
said.
Taira was in the seventh grade
at Lakeview Middle School in
Sanford until transferring to a pri-
vate school this week.
No charges were filed Thursday
night;the cause of the accident re-
mains under investigation.
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Torture-slaying suspect had
explosive past, police say
By Mary Murphy ground are find- was convicted and sentenced to 18
and Lesley Clark ing that he liked months in prison in April 1993.
ladies, and at. � After serving six months,he was
� STAFF
first the ladies , released.Rolle picked up the victim
felt the same ;in the pending case in Orlando with
TAVARFS— Some say he was a way about him. a promise of crack cocaine in,early
smooth talker who liked to go fish- ' After all, he September last year. She was raped
ing and laughed easily over a ample .. - made a good sal- four times on a couch while the at-
of beers. le cry,and he tray- tacker choked her,she reported.
But another side of Joseph Alger- eled in circles Rolle has been in Seminole Can-
non Rolle Jr.—one marked by ex- where people ty Jail since his arrest hours after
plosive anger, quick fists and a Rolm made more. For the September attack. He was
:need to dominate the women in his a w i I e — a charged with violating his probation
'rife — surfaced in a trail of broken short while—he was a dream come on the first sexual battery co vic-
hearts and bruised bodies police say true. tint
he left in his wake. But it didn't take long for the He's been arrested several other
Investigators looking into the trouble to begin,detectives said. times for a variety of other charges,
background of the 28-year-old Wm- "He would be super nice for the including burglary, drunken driv-
ter Springs man charged with a bi- first month. Then his true self ing, loitering and prowling, and
Lane tort-rue-slaying are uncovering would come out,,'said Lake sheriffs colt He was convicted on all the
tweb of contradictions. Detective Al Cinder. charges,according to court records.
rive days ago, Lake sheriffs de- The "true" Rolle, according to Rolle was born in North Carolina,
tectives had never heard of Rolle. three girlfriends interviewed by oei- but detectives know little about his
Then a high-tech crime computer cers,was a man who used his fists early years.
matched his genetic profile with to enforce the set of rules he wanted Rolle, who once worked in the
that of the suspected killer of an un- to have his girlfriends follow.When mailroom at The Orlando Sentinel
identified woman, things went wrong with his girl- print plant in Sorrento, served in
He was charged late Thursday Mends — who often were women the U.S.Navy from 1983 to 1989 and
with first-degree murder in the with standing in the community— was discharged under "unhonora-
death of the woman whose body he turned to the streets. ble" conditions, according to court
was found in the woods in east Lake County Chief Deputy Dave records.
Lake County three years ago. Hall said Rolle "bounced between Rolle's family has lived in Semi-
Seminole County sheriffs detec- two dasses of women." nole County for some years.
dues on Friday said they are invest- Gussler said Rolle "picked up The woman Rolle is accused of-
gating whether Rolle could also be street girls" and raped them when killing was slain in a ritualistic way
fesponsible for the January 1991 things went wrong at home. and posed in a sexually explicit p>-
beating and stabbing death of April Rolle has been arrested on sition, which deputies at the time
Merle Stone of Apopka charges of sexual battery twice; he called the signature of her killer.
` The body of the 21-year-old wom- was convicted once, and the other "There's a good possibility that
an was found three miles from charge is pending. there are more victims out there,"
Where a hiker came upon the re- The victim in the that ease told Gassier said
timing of the unidentified woman officers that Rolle held a hacksaw to Sharon McBreen of the Sentinel
tin Dec.7,1991. her throat when he raped her in Au- sts hm,. McBdentoile the St
Detectives probing Rolle's back- gust 1992 at a friend's home. He
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Voice March 16, 1995
Fight spills into apartment
A fake cop almost ruined one
Winter Springs woman's day Satur-
day when he entered her home and
refused to leave.
The Lori Anne Lane resident di-
aled 911 to report a fight outside her
apartment building. While she was
still on the phone, according to po-
lice records,someone knocked on her
door and yelled"Police."
She opened the door and one of
the fighters pushed his way inside.
The woman told him to leave but he
refused and began yelling at those still
outside fighting.She eventually man-
aged to push him back out and
slammed the door behind him.
The defendant fled and was ap-
prehended later near the intersection
of SR 434 and Belle Avenue.He had
a cut on his arm and was treated by
the Winter Springs Fire Department.
When he was returned to the
scene of the fight the woman identi-
fied him as the man who broke into
her home.
The defendant told one officer
that his name was Robert Mathew
Norvick.lie identified himself to an-
other as Willard James Norriss,refus-
ing in both instances to give an ad-
dress or date of birth. The man was
charged with burglary and imperson-
ating a police officer and booked un-
der the name John Doe.
Also in Winter Springs—City
police were contacted by Public Works
employee Tracy Baker on Wednesday
regarding a number of dead dogs.
Baker said that during the past
two months the remains of several
dogs have been found near the inter-
section of Hayes and Pearl Roads.
Some of the bodies were in boxes and .5o 3 / 4
others had been put in plastic bags.
The latest find, which police viewed
Wednesday, was wrapped in a news-
paper dated March 9, 1995.
The remains of most of the ani-
mals were badly decomposed and the
breeds could not be determined.
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Fake-officer suspect
faces more charges
By Sharon McBreen
OF THE SENTINEL STAFF
SANFORD—A Winter Springs man accused of pre-
tending to be a cop was charged Friday with another
count of impersonating a police officer and two counts
of misdemeanor child abuse.
Erik Eriksen, 19, was being held in the Seminole
County jail with$2,000 bail. Semi-
nole County deputy sheriffs on
Thursday charged Eriksen, 1380
Corte Neuva,with two counts of im-
personating an officer.
The child abuse, or contributing
to the delinquency of a minor,
charges stem from complaints byw .' },
two teen-age girls. The girls, 14 and . , --","3', 1,:,
15, claim that Eriksen took them to -i
his former apartment in Chuluota V..,.':.7 . y
and bought them hair dye to hide
their identities. One girl said Erik- Eriksen
sen suggested that she run away from home,according
to an arrest report.
The 14-year-old girl also said that Eriksen told her he
was a Volusia County deputy. .
Meanwhile, one of Eriksen's friends on Friday de-
fended the pizza delivery driver.
Pete Coon, 19, of Winter Park said that he was with
Eriksen during one of the alleged impersonation inci-
dents. Coon said Eriksen did not pretend to be an offi-
cer,nor did he threaten to write anyone a ticket.
But deputies say several callers alleged that Eriksen
also told them he was a police officer. Eriksen told dep-
uties that he pulled over as many as a dozen drivers in
east Seminole County during the past six months.
On Thursday, deputies seized a flashing green light,
a pair of handcuffs and a siren control box from Erik-
sen's dark purple pickup truck.
Possession of those items is legal.
Police warned motorists to pull over only for police
vehicles with red or blue flashing lights and to ask to
see police identification and a badge.
Winter Springs teen, t
accused in fake co
scam, is still held �"
BY TIMOTHY ALLEN CONKLIN Eriksen
STAFF REPORTER OF THE OVIEDO VOICE Eriksen told the victim that he The Oviedo girl ("Susan") told
A Winter Springs man continues was lucky that Eriksen was not going the Voice that she knew Eriksen
to be held in the Seminole County to write him a ticket,according to the
through mutual friends prior to the
Correctional Facility under $2000 report.The second victim said a simi- incident,and that he had told her pre-
bond on two counts of impersonating lar incident with Eriksen had occurred
viously that he was a sheriff's officer.
a police officer and two counts of child on another occasion,and that he had "I opened the door, he turned me
abuse(contributing to the delinquency received a warning from Eriksen on around and was gonna put the hand-
of a minor). that occasion as well.
cuffs on me,but I wouldn't let him,"
Erik Eriksen, 19, 1380 Corte
The deputy then contacted Susan said of the incident."I just said
Nueva, Winter Springs, was arrested Eriksen, who agreed to come to the stop and walked away."
around 1:30 a.m. last Thursday and District 5 Service Center and speak
charged with impersonating a police Eriksen and Susan then went
with the deputy. After being advised over to the home of the Winter
officer after two men told Seminole of his Miranda rights, Eriksen con-
Springs girl ("Mary"), a friend of
County deputy sheriffs that Eriksen fessed to the reported incidents and Susan's."I opened the door and it was
had stopped them recently and iden- acknowledged that he had identified
just Susan there," Mary said. "Then
tified himself as a police officer. himself as an officer.Eriksen went on "
Erik walked around the corner. Mary
According to Eriksen's arrest re-
to say that he had engaged in activi- had never met Eriksen before.
port,one victim told a sheriff's deputy ties of the same nature on several
that Eriksen had followed his vehicle "He walked up to me and asked
other occasions, including handcuff- Susan if Man'was my name," Mary
to a driveway and blocked his vehicle ing persons and securing them in his said."She said yes,and he turned me
with his truck. Eriksen asked three vehicle for a long time, according to around and put the handcuffs on me
female passengers in the bed of the the report.He would also ask his vic- and started reading me my rights."
truck how old they were, at which tims to pay him a $50 bribe in ex- Mary said that she was scared at first,
time the victim asked Eriksen"if he change for his not writing them a "but then Susan started laughing and
was a cop."Eriksen replied,"Yes." ticket.
said it was just a joke, that Erik had
The victim then asked Eriksen to
Eriksen gave the deputy permis- told her to play along."
"write me a ticket,"to which Eriksen lion to search his truck, where a si-
Man•asked Eriksen to let her go.
replied, "I don't have to, I called ren box,rotating light,handcuffs and which he did. The three then left in
someone to do that."The victim asked two power supply boxes were found. Eriksen's truck."He told me he was a
Eriksen to move his truck,and when Eriksen was arrested on two counts
cop,"Mary said, `so I
Eriksen refused,the victim drove his thought he was off-duty and just
vehicle across the lawn of the resi- of impersonating police officer ana
deuce where he was parked and left � g a� having some fun, trying to reduce
taken to the John E.Polk Correctional stress or something."
the scene. Facility. The two girls debated whether or
The other victim told the same The sheriff's office then alerted not to report the incident,but thought
deputy that Eriksen had confronted the media of the arrest and appealed that they wouldn't be believed. "We
him on two separate occasions last to other persons victimized by Eriksen didn't want to say anything because
month. On one occasion, Eriksen to come forward. The office received we thought we'd be by ourselves,"
pulled behind his vehicle with lights six calls from citizens after the ap- Susan said. "People were saying that
flashing on the front of Eriksen's peal,and the resulting interviews with nothing was going to happen because
truck. Eriksen then approached the these citizens have so far led to two we didn't have any proof."
victim's vehicle carrying a maglight additional charges of child abuse to Both girls said that they never felt
and radio and told the victim that he be filed against Eriksen. The child threatened by Eriksen,but are relieved
had violated several traffic laws. abuse charges involved two 14-year- that he is now behind bars.
old girls, one from Oviedo and one Susan thinks Eriksen was just
9,5"C D from Winter Springs,whom Eriksen looking for attention. "I think he's
encouraged to skip school and stay at messed up,"she said.
his home.
Robbers of _
Winter Springs
bank still at-large
By DARRELL JOHNSON immediately following the event. 7: WINTER SPRINGS
STAFF REPORTER or Tasovraoo VOICE The suspects ran across SR 434
Barnett Bank on SR 434 in Win- and headed down Moss Road toward Thefts/break-Ins
ter Springs was robbed of close to Lori Ann Lane.One witness reported • State Road 434, 900 block, 3:10
$28,000 on Tuesday;May 16.The two seeing a maroon Izuzu Impulse leav- a.m.May 22. Someone broke into a golf
suspects are still at large. ing the area a Yew minutes later. course facility and took Sa00.
One black male and one white As Winter Springs Crime Scene Auto thena/burglarlea
male entered the bank through the personnel were arriving on the scene, • Andover Circle, 700 block, be-
front door just before I I a.m. One one investigator attempted to block Moen 7 a.m.May 18 and 5:15 p.m.May
suspect planted himself in the middle access to Lori Ann Lane. A pickup 20. Someone stole race car parked M
a
ace track.
of the lobby and the other entered the truck pulled in front of him and Criminal mischief/vandalism
tellers' area, which was not fully stopped, and a black male exited the
staffed at the time.Everyone was or- passenger side. • Shetland Avenue, 900 block, be-
dered onto the floor,and the mono er The officer stn him al n- tween 8 p.m.May 17 and 8:15 a.m.May
g pped gu 18. Someone snuck a residential mall-
was told to begin filling a knapsack point and held the two while other box with an unknown object,causing an
with money. investigators arrived. It was deter- estimated 3150 in damages to it.
The subjects warned the manager mined that the two men in the truck Battery
that they did not expect to receive any were working in the area and had no • Edgemon Avenue, between 2:30
dye packs,although some of the cash involvement in the crime. and 3 p.m.May 21.A man was charged
did have recorded serial numbers for Investigators collected finger- Brit. g another man during an ergo-
identification purposes. prints from objects the suspects might • Lori Ann Lane, 100 block, 8:14
A suneillanee videotape was have touched. They both were wear- p.m. May 22. A woman was charged
made during the robbery, but,due to ing hats and sunglasses,and witnesses with he . a man in the head during an
a problem with the VCR, the image claim the black man was wearing argumen t.
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6 a Tangknvood hit woman 700 Work,
quality was poor.A separate still cam- long dark-colored wig. May 19. A man e a woman In the face
em was not operating at the time. The investigation by Winter during an argument.
Agents of the Federal Bureau of In- Springs Police and the FBI is continu-
vestigation took custody of the tape ing.
Debbie Biechele of Winter
Springs,a junior at Bert College and
a member of the school's equestrian
team,qualified to compete in the na-
qi-O S 2,5- liana! finals at Colorado State Uni-
versity earlier this month. She is a
member of the advanced stock seat
team.Debbie also was recently elected
president of the team. Berry is an
1,800-student college in northwest
Georgia.
Winter Springs
man accused
of firebombing
house on 434 Area deaths
A Winter Springs man was ar-
rested Sunday afternoon after he al- John
legedly threw three firebombs into a
vacant house at 855 East SR434,just
outside the city limits. C 7 1 co l art 41
Investigators from the Seminole 11 7
County Sheriff's Office Major Crimes Mass was
Section arrested 65 year old Roy _ -- held yesterday for
Walden Curran, 309 Casa Grande ' John 1. Cicolari,
Court, and charged him with one 41, of Oneida
count of first degree arson,one count •. a Lane in Winter
of burglary and five counts of mane- Springs,who died
facturing an explosive device. ] -= July 1 of respire-
The house,which was not occu- fs *• * - m tory complications
pied, sustained only minor damage. `tam^' „ • • due to multiple
A Winter Springs police officer on L;.<_ ... :§=c sclerosis.
routine patrol noticed flames coming Born in Medford, Mass., Mr.
from the building and notified Cicolari moved to Central Florida in
firefighters,who quickly extinguished 1986. He was a retired/disabled elec-
the blaze. trician from Local 103 IBEW.
Curran left his car parked at the A memorial mass was celebrated
scene of the fire and traced him to his for Mr. Cicolari yesterday at St.
business, Sir Walter's Pub, 350 East Stephen's Catholic Church,where he
SR 434. He was booked at the Semi- was a member,with the Rey.Fr.John
nole County Correctional Facility. Bluelt as celebrant.
He told officers that he went fish- Mr. Cicolari is survived by his
ing near the house,then went back to wife AnnMarie; a daughter, Victoria
the bar,where he blacked out.He said Ann Cicolari;his parents,Louis.1 and
business was bad at the pub,and that Lena Cicolari of Medford,Mass., his
he and his wife had spent their life maternal grandmother, Rose Baratta
savings trying to resurrect it. of Somerville, Mass.; a sister, Joan
Investigators believe he was test- Bates of Medford, Mass.: and a
ing an explosive on the house in brother,Louis Cicolari,Jr.of Clinton,
preparation for the firebombing of the Mass.
business.
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