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Former students charged with bomb threats unable to accept plea agreement

By Ian Love - Feb. 8, 2010, 8:26pm

VERO BEACH — The former Vero Beach High School students allegedly involved with phoning in a series of bomb threats to the high school last year were unable to accept plea agreements on Monday.

The pair, Taren Stage and Brittany Walker, were in court Monday to accept the plea agreements negotiated between their lawyers and the State Attorney handling the case.

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Barton property’s $253,000 lien still stands

By Debbie Carson - Feb. 8, 2010, 8:22am

INDIAN RIVER COUNTY – County commissioners have not outright ruled out cutting a deal with a mortgage company to decrease the $253,000-lien placed on a Vero Beach home. However, they are not ready to drop the amount to $90,000 as the company has requested.

“They weren’t the bad guys in this,” said attorney Bruce Barkett, who represents City First Mortgage, the holder of the former Lewis Barton property, 2025 Surfside Terrace.

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