A former Florida Forest Service supervisor will remain jailed without bond, accused in the 2023 death of a friend, who suffered a brutal head injury after an afternoon on the river.
Lee Circuit Judge Nicholas Thompson on Sept. 26 ruled that Anthony Curella, 38, of LaBelle, will remain in custody without bond until his trial. Thompson’s ruling comes a day after the State Attorney’s Office filed a motion for pretrial detention.
Before Assistant State Attorney Martin Stark called a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officer to testify, the prosecutor said Curella and the victim, Christopher Giangeruso, 64, of Fort Myers, were drinking the day Giangeruso died on the Caloosahatchee River…