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August 13, 2016 Vol. 140 No. 226 18 pages

Dulce CoCa, fourth grade,

Horace OBryant School

Feds seek
to protect
FBI in
bomb trial

See forecast on Page 2A

BY ADAM LINHARDT

DOCTOR WITHOUT BORDERS

WEATHER

Key West Citizen

SPRAYING ALERT
The Florida Keys
Mosquito Control
District has scheduled
an aerial adulticiding
mission today, Aug.13,
from 6:30 to 8:30 a.m.,
over Upper Sugarloaf
(Mile Marker 18-20).
The airplane mission will be completed,
weather permitting,
using Naled. The insecticide is used as a part of
the districts integrated
pest management program to control migrating adult mosquitoes.
It is a non-persistent
insecticide that breaks
down rapidly when
applied in the manner
of application employed
by the district.
For information, call
Mosquito Control at 305292-7190.

Contributed photo/Dr. Robert Loeffler

A rare happy day, writes Dr. Robert Loeffler as he holds onto two 8-year-old boys about to return to Syria. Both boys have
amputations due to a bomb that killed three boys, with the two pictured surviving.

Key West physician returns from Syria

BY ADAM LINHARDT

NATION

Key West Citizen

Dr. Robert Loeffler of Key West was

so close to the combat zone that on a
few nights he climbed on the medical
compound roof to watch fighter jets
drop bombs just two miles away.
You could feel them, amazingly
more than you could hear them,
Loeffler said. They would shake the
concrete compound. It is surreal. Its
like watching a movie, but unfortunately the realism comes into play in
terms of what the movies dont show.
Loeffler said he would check his
watch during bombing runs knowing

Zika emergency
in Puerto Rico
The U.S. government
on Friday declared a
public health emergency in Puerto Rico
as a result of a Zika
epidemic. The declaration allows the U.S.
Department of Health
and Human Services
to award grants, access
emergency funds and
temporarily appoint
personnel where needed, among other things.
Page 3A

to prepare in the coming hours for

the patients severely injured by those
bombs.
Loeffler spent the
last nine weeks on
the other side of the
world: The Jordanian
town of Al Ramtha
as part of a two and
a half month stint
with Doctors Without
Loeffler
Borders. The town is
a stones throw from
Syria, where a vicious civil war and
the terrorist group Islamic State have
ravaged the civilian population.
The suffering he witnessed left him

feeling really high, highs and really

low, lows, he said.
Most of the injuries were blast
injuries from bombs or kids stepping
on land mines, Loeffler said. Its
pretty brutal. We had a case ... there
were five little boys playing in a yard.
He paused.
Three of them died pretty much
right away, but the two survivors
were brought to me. They both lost
limbs, but we were able to keep them
alive. Most of them want to go home,
despite the chaos. Its still their home.
Loeffler also treated fighters, but
See DOCTOR, Page 10A

FKCC gets $900K grant for alternative energy course

NATION

Heavy rain and

flooding in Louisiana
Heavy rain and
widespread flooding in
Louisiana lead the governor to declare a state
of emergency on Friday,
with more rain expected
over the state through
Saturday. Numerous
rivers in southeast
Louisiana and southern
Mississippi were overflowing their banks and
threatening widespread
flooding after extreme
rainfall, the National
Weather Service reported. Page 9A

A U.S. prosecutor is asking

a judge for a protective order
regarding the testimony of
undercover employees and
confidential sources in the
case of a Stock Island man
accused of trying to buy a
bomb from undercover FBI
agents.
Assistant U.S. Attorney
Marc Anton filed the brief,
one-paragraph motion
last week and
U.S. District
Judge Jose E.
Martinez had
not weighed
in on the
Suarez
issue as of
Friday.
What Anton is asking is
unclear as U.S. Attorneys
Office spokeswoman Sarah
Schall declined to comment
on the motion. Federal prosecutors themselves rarely
comment on a pending case.
The motion could mean
that the government will
ask the judge to clear the
public viewing area of the
courtroom at trial when
the federal agents and their
See TRIAL, Page 10A

Guilty plea
looming in
counterfeit
bills case
BY ADAM LINHARDT

CITIZEN STAFF

Key West Citizen

Florida Keys Community College

recently received a nearly $900,000
grant from the National Science
Foundation toward developing an
associate in science degree in engineering technology, with an alternative energy technician track that will
focus on career pathways in solar,
wind and ocean power technology.
The new program, planned to start
in August 2017, supports the governments pledge to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions and double the renewable energy workforce by 2025.
At no time in human history has the
need for sustainable, clean, renewable alternative energy been more
critical. The global ramifications of
burning fossil fuels can no longer be
ignored because the climate is changing, the polar ice caps are melting, the
seas are rising, the oceans are acidifying, and the biosphere is degrading,
said Patrick Rice, FKCCs chief science
and research officer.

A Hialeah Gardens couple

accused of passing fake $100
bills at Upper Keys businesses in February is scheduled
to plead guilty later this
month.
Mariela Del Carmen
Carvajal-Perez, 52, and
Francisco
Florentino
Montes-Quinones, 70, were
indicted in April on counterfeiting charges and may
be sentenced Aug. 23 at the
same change of plea hearing.
They had been scheduled
to plead guilty on Thursday,
but Senior U.S. District
Court Judge James Lawrence
King rescheduled the same
day. He didnt give a reason
for the change in his order.
Carvajal-Perez faces one

Photo provided by Florida Keys Community College

Florida Keys Community College chief science and research officer Patrick
Rice, right, checks out a model tidal turbine with Walter Schurtenberger, left, of
Hydrokinetic Energy Corp., at the companys facility on Stock Island.
However, it is not too late. With gy production. The Florida Keys
this NSF grant, FKCC can train the can become a demonstration to the
21st century workforce for alterna- world on how to live sustainably with
tive energy and conduct research
See FKCC, Page 10A
that will foster the future of ener-

See COUNTERFEIT, Page 10A

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