Jan. 29 incident at county’s Carlton Water Treatment Facility near Venice similar in nature to other domestic terrorist attacks

44-year-old North Port woman charged on variety of accounts, including trying to disrupt operations of public utility facility. A 44-year-old North Port woman was arrested on Jan. 29 after driving a pickup truck through two gates at Sarasota County’s T. Mabry Carlton Jr. Water Treatment Facility outside Venice, striking three county employees following her exit from the vehicle, and then hitting a button that shuts off the plant’s operations, the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office has reported.

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