Florida Keys Electric Cooperative recently held its first board meeting in the completed addition of the Marathon Operations Center. The 4,200 square-foot one-story expansion increases FKECâs capabilities to feed and house crews after a major storm and offers a more functional space for meetings and training.
Prior to the meeting, FKEC board members and staff unveiled the name of the building addition to be the Michael H. Puto Emergency Operations Annex. A surprised Puto thanked his fellow board of directors and FKEC staff for the honor.
Representing Marathon members for 28 years, Puto is the longest-serving member of FKECâs board of directors. He was the board secretary for 18 years and is currently the vice president. Puto has held positions such as Marathon city manager, Monroe County commissioner, vice mayor and mayor of Monroe County, and was appointed to the 16th Judicial Nomination Commission. He is also a recipient of more than 50 community service awards and is a
Police arrested a Georgia man whose visit to a local bank prompted an evacuation.
It happened when he allegedly sent one of the bank tellers a road flare via the vacuum tube in a drive-thru lane last month. Police say the flare looked like a destructive device.
Michael Aaron Bass, 26, is accused of simple assault and distributing a hoax device in connection with the incident, the
Thomasville Times-Enterprise reported. Bass arrived on his motorcycle at the Synovus Bank drive-thru window around 9:30 a.m. to cash a check.
Bass received the cash and that’s when he’s accused of pulling a road flare from his motorcycle and sending it up the vacuum to the teller, authorities say.
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Georgia man accused of sending road flare to bank teller
May 23, 2021
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THOMASVILLE, Ga. (AP) A south Georgia man faces criminal charges after police say he sent a road flare to a drive-through bank teller through a pneumatic tube.
Michael Aaron Bass was arrested Wednesday in Thomasville after the flare set off a panic when a bank teller concluded it was a stick of dynamite, police said.
Bass drove up on a motorcycle, cashed a work check, and then sent the flare back to the teller, police Sgt. Scott Newberry told the Thomasville Times-Enterprise.
“He stuck it into the vacuum tube and sent it to the teller, and he drove off,” Newberry said.