Annual Report, Year 2006 - Monroe County Sheriff's Office

Monroe County Sheriff’s Office Annual Report - 2006
Sheriff’s Detective receives high honor
A detective with the Sheriff’s Internal Affairs Division received
the State of Florida’s “Top Criminal Justice Officer of
the Year” award for 2006. Detective Janine Gedmin traveled
to Tallahassee to accept the award from Governor Jeb Bush
and Attorney General Charlie Crist during a ceremony marking
National Crime Victim’s Rights Week. Prior to transferring to
her current job, she served in the Crimes Against Women and
Children’s Unit for a number of years, investigating primarily
sexual abuse related crimes against adults and children.
Four people charged after cocaine found in
Stock Island residence
Four Stock Island residents were arrested after a search warrant
was served at their home. The search turned up seven crack
cocaine “cookies” weighing a total of 106 grams with an approximate
street value of $10,000.00; two plastic bags of powdered cocaine in two separate bedrooms; marijuana,
Xanax and other unidentified pills
May 2006
Perisho murder case closed; attributed to Carl Brandt
Detective Janine Gedmin is congratulated by
Sheriff Rick Roth on receiving “Top Criminal
Justice Officer of the Year.
The 1989 murder of Sherry Perisho in the waters off of Big Pine Key has been closed by Homicide Investigators
with the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office. The killing was attributed to Carl Brandt, the man responsible
for killing his wife, his wife’s niece and then himself in Seminole County in September of 2004.
“Brandt lived in the area at the time. We have information from a witness that Brandt’s wife, Terri, saw him
wet, with blood on him at the time of the murder. That, coupled with the similarities to the murders in Seminole
County, the fact that Brandt shot and killed his mother when he was young, and all the other aspects of our
investigation lead us to believe that Carl Brandt was the killer of Sherry Perisho,” said Detective Sgt. Patricia
Dally.
“We are satisfied that Carl Brandt was the murderer of Sherry Perisho,” said Sheriff Rick Roth. “Our
investigators have worked long and hard on this case and I am proud that they’ve been able to close it and,
perhaps, bring some closure to relatives of Sherry who want to know what happened to her,” he said.
Hospitality Expo in Islamorada sees large law enforcement presence
One of the largest water-bourne law enforcement deployments in the Keys took place May 15-17 in Whale
Harbor Channel. Overflow from the Hospitality Expo held at Holiday Isle Resort into Whale Harbor Channel,
and onto the sandbar off shore required the large marine law enforcement presence.
Plane from Cuba causes stir at Key
West airport
A small aircraft caused a stir at the Key West
Airport when it landed. Monroe County Sheriff’s
Office Airport Security Director Jerome Fain received
a call from U.S. Customs in Riverside, California who
said the aircraft was en route to the Key West Airport
from Cuba. They asked that the plane be detained
when it landed. The plane, and the two pilots seen
pushing it in the attached photos, were turned over to
U.S. Customs officers.
This Plane, traveling from Cuba, caused quite a stir at the
Key West Airport.
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