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Stepdad Threatened With Hot Grease Pan

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By JOE SEELIG

Highlands Today

Published: August 29, 2008

  Nicole Smith

LAKE PLACID - A Lake Placid woman remained in Highlands County Jail in lieu of $40,000 bond Wednesday, after sheriff's investigators say she became angry and threatened her stepdad with a pan of hot grease.

Nicole Chantelle Smith, 23, was arrested Tuesday and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill and culpable negligence exposing another person to harm.

Sheriff's investigators drove to Smith's address at about 8:27 p.m. Tuesday and spoke with her 47-year-old stepfather who said she became very upset when he told her to give her two-year-old daughter a bath.

He told deputies she ran to the kitchen and grabbed a frying pan from the top of the stove, the report stated. He said Smith returned with the pan with grease in it, raised it toward him and threatened him with it.

At some point she tried to throw the grease on the stepdad, but it missed him, Smith's mother told deputies.

Some drops of the grease inadvertently fell on an 11-year-old boy, who was not injured, the report stated. Smith reportedly grabbed her 2-year-old and left the house.

When she returned, deputies were at the scene. She reportedly told investigators that she became angry when her step-dad accused her of being a bad mother.

Investigators reported a trail of grease drippings from the kitchen, up the hall to the bedroom.

Aunt's Money Missing, Niece Accused

SEBRING - A Sebring woman remained in Highlands County Jail in lieu of $1,000 bail, accused of stealing her aunt's money.

Christal Raven Page, 29, was charged with grand theft $300 or more but less than $5,000.

According to sheriff's investigators, the victim went to the Highlands County Sheriff's Office to report the theft of $4,000 cash that she had hidden in her bathroom drawer. She named Page as a suspect.

Deputies caught up with Page at the Sebring Gate gas station, where she told investigators that she had taken the money on Aug. 22, to buy crack cocaine, the report stated. She told deputies she found the money in the bathroom drawer, the report stated.

Check Forged, Jewelry Stolen, Daughter Accused

A Lake Placid woman remained in Highlands County Jail in lieu of $13,250 bond Wednesday, after her mother named her as a suspect in the theft of her jewelry, along with forging and cashing a check.

Christina Louise Clay, 44, was charged with grand theft $300 or more but less than $5,000, dealing in stolen property, providing false information of ownership to a pawnbroker, forgery by altering a bank bill, note, check or draft, fraud by issuing a forged bank bill, check, note or draft and petty theft.

On Aug. 22, the mother went to the Lake Placid sheriff's office substation to report the theft of more than $1,000 in jewelry and the forgery of and cashing of a $100 check. The mother named her daughter, Clay, as the suspect.

In addition to taking the jewelry and pawning it, the mother said, on Aug. 4, her daughter went into her purse and took a check. She reportedly took it to a local bank, where she presented it for payment with a forged signature, the report stated.

Clay reportedly told investigators she took the jewelry and told them she pawned it. She admitted to the check forgery as well, the report stated.

Clay reportedly told deputies she used the money to pay a drug debt and to support her drug habit, the report stated.

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