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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Seized items believed to be tied to school scandal

A Monroe County State Attorney's Office investigator this morning confiscated from a Big Pine Key home several items believed may have been purchased using Monique Acevedo's school district credit card, according to State Attorney Dennis Ward.

Items included home and pool furniture, framed paintings, a mirror, bicycles, tools, a ladder, tile cutter, table saw, etc., according to Ward and witnesses.

The home at 31318 Avenue D, at the corner of Father Tony Way, belongs to Margaret Edgington and John Notaro, according to the Monroe County Property Appraiser's Office.

Edgington works in the Adult Education Department that Acevedo oversaw until her March 3 resignation. She is the General Equivalency Degree examiner, assessment coordinator and co-enrolled contact.

The owners consented to a search, Ward said.

A School Board maintenance truck was among those that carted away the items, which will be stored at a Key West High School storage building, Principal John Welsh said.

Sgt Randy Sholtz

I know nothink!nothink!

What a Joke!! Can't you even store the evidence!

Mr. Ward wanted to set examples that is what he ran on. Yet him and his great investigators are already mishandling evidence!! If its evidence than it should have been siezed and stored as evidence. I'm sure either the State Attorneys Office or the Sheriffs Office has enough room somewhere to store items of all sizes. Let it be anyone else and these things would have been bagged and tagged and placed into evidence to show in court. I think this is just a joke. Why should they be going through other peoples houses when they haven't even went with a search warrant (because believe me Randy & Monique would not let them in other wise) to the accused home. If it was just a poor smuck on the street they would have kicked the door in and ransacked your house. They should sieze all the items and sell them at a great yard sale at the High School to make up the money she [allegedly] stole. Let me know when and the time I'll show up! Most likely they will hold a yard and bake sale to make money for her defense. Car Wash anyone?

Amazing... how can Ward

Amazing... how can Ward allow evidence seized in a criminal investigation/prosecution to be stored by the ones being investigated? The U.S. Attorney and Federal Marshall need to get in there and take custody of all this evidence before it disappears. I can hear Ward now.... " we have to dismiss all the charges because the evidence is missing....." Has anyone looked at Ward's list of campaign contributors? I bet it includes Randy......

Seized items believed to be tied to school scandal

Folks, get a life and move on. Mrs. Acevedo is going to claim insanity, enroll in shoppers anonymous and sue all those folks that should had stopped her but didn't. She's going to walk with her head held up high, smelling like a rose, continuing to be the First Lady of the MCUSD, with all you folks feeling sorry for her and Randy, while the school district officials that failed to expose her years ago will be unemployed.

This raises more questions, alot more...

wow! Were the items in place being used or stored?

Why

Why is the stuff being taken to KWHS to be stored? Keep the schools out of it, doesn't anyone realize the students and teachers have suffered enough.

Don't you think there is enough evidence.............

to actually put someone in jail? If you look at the Monroe jail website some people are in there sometimes for bouncing checks...................

This really sucks eggs.

So Monique's assistant [apparently] was also complicit in her theft... and also [may have] benefitted/stood by and did nothing and impeded the investigation. Does anyone working at the school have a moral code? We keep hearing talk about people being innocent... but people knew and did nothing. They looked the other way. That's not innocence in my book. As for Randy not knowing. I've begun to question what people think Randy could reasonably be expected to know as a husband and an administrator. The difference in opinion in this matter explains a lot. Obviously, when discussing budgetary issues... loose tallies would be bandied about in his hearing... such as say "How much money is coming in for cosmetology?" "NONE" No one expects Randy to be a forensic accountant. None or Randy's supporters expect much from him at all. It seems that not having one paying student in cosmetology for several years might raise a flag even in his mind. Then we get back to someone in accounting questioning a purchase order of Monique's... She referred the person to her husband.. the superintendent. This is absurd. They need to pay back every penny. Every single penny.

Rock Bottom?

The bottom is where things worsen quicker than you can lower your standards!

Dont be so sure they are not

Dont be so sure they are not conchs or bubbas!!!

Where are all of the Conch and Bubba haters?

Wow! What do you know these people are not even Conch's or Bubba’s? They are just "alleged" thieves? Why aren't you Conch and Bubba haters all over these people with the same type of attacks? Could it be because they are not Conch's? Like somebody said in a recent comment, "this should not be a Conch or a Bubba issue, this is about stealing" PERIOD!

Looks odd, Grand Stand

I hope they have all the warrants correct.And why was it not only the police there? Witch hunt again! Think about this.

Plot thickens considerably indeed!

Is this part of the 'stash' of stuff found at the HS before? I mean, how much MORE is scattered about?

how much MORE is scattered?

Who knows, but prior reports didn't include ladders, tile cutters, etc. I find it hard to believe that Mo would be buying those construction items. . .

Search Warrants

The State's Attorney should have asked for a bunch of search warrants right at the beginning and searched the homes and businesses of any one suspected of being involved. It's too late now; most of it's been squirreled away or dumped.

No doubt that a RICO charge can be brought in now

This school district can write the book on HOW TO when it comes to corruption and stealing from the children. Randy and his cronies definetely can be brought up on RICO charges now. Lets hope that either Ward or the FBI brings them forth. I wonder who brought the stuff to that house, I bet that will be interesting, and an eye opener.

This Gets Better Everyday!!!

And Randy (of course) is going to say, "I know nothing", "I never noticed that my wife wrote down school supplies in my campaign financial record" even though he signed them!!! This town is sooo corrupted! Now, why is this property been stored in the School??? C'mon Ward! I am sure that the Sheriff will be more than happy to give you some storage space!! Get it out of there, before it dissapears!! HURRY!

Can you say Fire

Wow how can you protect the evidence when its in randys control? mark my words their will be a fire that will destroy the evidence and of course the camera wont work and know one will no how it happened! Wake up State Attorney you know that is not the proper chain of custody to protect it.

CALM DOWN

As long as the goods were photographed and documented their safe. If they disappear again Randy is screwed. TAKE MY WORD RANDY IS ****** NOW. HEHEHE I HOPE THEY GET THEM ALL CORRUPT SOB'S!

and Edgington is STILL

and Edgington is STILL WORKING AT HER JOB. When these things were moved into her house, the story had already broken. She let Mo put this stuff in her house. She needs to be fired.

Blows my mind

Unbelievable...suspect items from MA's spending sprees to be held by...none other than...RA's employees. Just shoot me now.....

And the plot thickens.....

And the plot thickens.....

To be Stored at the SCHOOL ???

Under the watchful eyes of Randy and his bubbas .... LOL

This is too funny ... Ward is running the Gang Who Couldn't Shoot Straight

I wonder who else you paid

I wonder who else you paid off with nice gifts. I am really disgusted with everything that I have read over the past week. I am kind of not feeling so bad for Randy anymore. If I had kids in school and I was having to foot the bill for the added supplies, I would be furious. I think this is more than an illness. It's blaten abuse of the system.

WOW

and Randy knows nothing I'm sure

WE KNOW WE KNOW

RANDY DID NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THESE ITEMS.

HOW DO YOU KNOW? BECAUSE HE

HOW DO YOU KNOW? BECAUSE HE SAID SO? YOU CAN'T BELIEVE ANYTHING THIS GUY SAYS. WHAT A LOSER!!!!! I WOULDN'T DOUBT IF HE HID THAT STUFF HIMSELF.

HE PROBABLY PUT THE STUFF

HE PROBABLY PUT THE STUFF THERE BEFORE THEY BUSTED MONIQUE!!! HIDING EVIDENCE - IS AN ACCESSORY TO THE CRIME!!!! MY MY MY

Wheels within wheels, my friends, wheels within wheels.

The interlinks are unreal, my friends, unreal. Bobby Kennedy, John Lennon and the Gemstone File -- you could probably trace it all right here to Key West and the Monroe County School Board. That house on Big Pine is probably somehow linked to Challenge Day. Watch for the Men in Black carting off the furniture. It's all many layers of one heck of a complicated onion, my friends, one complicated onion. Just watch and wait. Watch and wait......

What is going on here?

So they are going to store the items on school property?!!!! Does anyone else see a problem with this?

STOLEN GOODS

Oh no problem at all. This way, Randy can keep an eye on the stolen goods until he gets to the bottom of this whole mess.

CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY?

CAN YOU SAY RICO? I THOUGHT YOU COULD!

This stuff should have

This stuff should have handed over months ago. To bad so many people will fall under Monicas credit card habit

Too funny

I would bet that a school board maintenance truck originally delivered the items also. Sarcasm is intended as the corruption down here is beyond belief. At some point we as citizens need to say enough!

More Arrests?

....and the plot thickens!! When are we going to see the arrest and charges of EVERYONE involved in this scheme.

Never!

It's almost summer vacation. That's what they're waiting for. It will all blow over. That's what they're counting on. It will all be forgotten in the heat and haze of summer. School will start in August. Same as usual.

HAHAHAHAHAHAAHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Anybody else want to defend the cover up effort?

and the plot sickens

While Randy is at the top of the school system and is ultimately responsible, the people in the finance office are totally incompetent in what they are suppose to do. Time for them to look for new jobs. They have already done enough to contribute to this debacle..We need to clean slate and remove many of the incompetent school board members who also should have had some oversight on the adult ed program OVER THE YEARS, but were blind.

RANDY KNEW!!!! RESIGN NOW!

RANDY KNEW ABOUT EVERYTHING!!! come on! he is the stupidendent of schools...He knew and is covering it up...But to store the recovered items at the high school???? I guess Ward wants Randy to try on the suits MA bought for him at the high school before taking him to Jail...RANDY RESIGN NOW!
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