ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- It's a new low, in the Casey Anthony case. Screaming protesters outside the Anthony home taunted the family at 1:30 in the morning and provoked a retired grandfather while Casey stayed inside and called 911.

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No matter how you feel about Casey Anthony or her parents who live in the house, it is a neighborhood in east Orange County where families live, people raise their children and they expect to feel safe.

"I feel sorry for my neighbors that I've known for the last 19 years. It's ashamed what's happened to my neighborhood because of this," George Anthony told Eyewitness News on Thursday.

It is clear that other residents in the Anthony family's neighborhood are concerned about their safety. The sheriff's department said it's already pushed to the brink trying to protect people in an area where many residents are afraid to open their doors.

Lynda is a four-year resident of Chickasaw Park and says the Caylee Anthony saga has turned the neighborhood upside down. Late Wednesday night, protesters took their invasion to a new low, launching coins and rocks at the Anthonys' windows and then trespassing to bang on the door.

As her parents walked outside with a bat, Cindy Anthony and Casey Anthony both called 911 with obvious concern about the physical danger (listen to calls).

"I don't know if there's weapons. I know that my father is outside and so is my mother. So please send as many people as you possibly can," Casey told the dispatcher.

One female protester tried encouraging a fight by pulling George Antony by his shirt. The protesters admit to taunting and provoking the family in the middle of the night.

"I think it's starting to work. He said for himself it's breaking his family apart. So hopefully it breaks them all down," protester Miriah Bounds told Eyewitness News.

Late Thursday morning, George Anthony released the following statement to Eyewitness News asking for help identifying the protesters: "Community Help: September 18, 2008 -- The Anthony Family asks all Central Florida residents and Friends to help identify all person(s) involved in the incidents that occurred in the early Morning hours of Sept. 18, 2008. Please contact The Orange County Sheriff Dept., the local FBI office, the Florida Dept. of Law Enforcement, also call my personal Cell # 407-403-3564 with this info. I appreciate your Help. The person(s) involved will be arrested And prosecuted to the fullest extent Of Florida Law. -- George Anthony" (see statement)

Sheriff's deputies said they're doing all the law allows to keep neighbors safe and to give protestors their constitutional rights.

"All we can do is enforce the law. And I can tell you our folks are frustrated. I can tell you our folks are very, very concerned about the security and safety of that neighborhood," said Jim Solomons, Orange County Sheriff's Office.

The attorney for the homeowners' association thinks much of the blame goes to the protesters themselves.

"It just shows me that these protestors are not out here for First Amendment rights. They're just here to cause a confrontation," HOA attorney Karen Wonsetler told Eyewitness News.

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VOTE: Should Deputies Provide More Protection?

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Orange County Commissioner Linda Stewart is now checking the legality of a curfew of perhaps 9:00pm for the entire block. She says it's a compromise for competing interests.

"As fair as you want to be to the people who want to protest, you're being unfair to those who live in this neighborhood," Stewart told Eyewitness News.

At this point, Wonsetler said only a judge's injunction to move the protesters to an empty lot nearby will return a sense of security to the neighborhood.

"This is primarily at the discretion of a judge. We've done as much as we can at this point," Wonsetler said.

Protests have become commonplace at the house and people gather to rally against Casey Anthony. Casey remains holed up in the home after being charged with child neglect and lying to authorities in the case of her missing daughter, Caylee. Caylee has been missing for nearly three months and sheriff's investigators believe she is dead.

FIRST AMENDMENT DOESN'T MEAN NO PROTESTING RESTRICTIONS

The First Amendment gives protesters a legal right to assemble. Eyewitness News wanted to know what a judge can do to stop the violent protests.

Legal experts said there's plenty; constitutional rights are not uniform. A judge can impose restrictions on the time, place and manner of the protests.

That means a judge could force a curfew, they could move the protesters out of the neighborhood or they could enact a noise limit.

The only thing a judge cannot do in the case is stop the protesters from delivering their messages.

CASEY'S ATTORNEY MAY HAVE BOTCHED LEGAL REQUEST

It appears Casey Anthony's attorney, Jose Baez, botched his legal request to force detectives to stop testing evidence in the case.

Baez filed a motion with the Clerk of Court a week ago, asking for a halt to the lab testing being done by investigators to give him a chance to weigh in on how and where it's done. Baez claimed investigators might be more concerned with cost and expediency than they are about accuracy and fairness.

The legal merits of his motion have yet to be decided, because Baez blundered by not notifying the judge assigned to the case about his motion. Nor has he asked the judge for a hearing. So his motion sits in the clerk's office on the second floor of the courthouse going nowhere.

Anthony's trial for child neglect and lying to investigators is scheduled for November 17. Eyewitness News asked Baez's public relations firm whether he plans to ask for a hearing, but the firm has not returned the call.

Eyewitness News also learned that Baez was almost an hour late for the sentencing of his client, Nilton Diaz, in a Lake County child abuse death the day Anthony was released the first time. That same day, Baez shoved a reporter. He also kept the Lake County judge, the victim's family and witnesses waiting. When he arrived, he made no apology.

Baez also requested a special hearing the day before that, asking for a delay in Diaz's sentencing, telling the judge he expected the media to follow him to Lake County after Anthony's release and that it would be prejudicial to Anthony.

Lake County Circuit Judge Mark Nacke denied Baez's request for that delay. Baez ended up taking Casey back to her house the day she was released from jail before he headed to Lake County. No reporters followed him to Lake County that day.

CAYLEE INVESTIGATION EXTENDS TO CALIFORNIA

FBI agents and Orange County sheriff's detectives plan to extend the Casey Anthony investigation to California.

Investigators are expected to interview Leonard Padilla and his private investigator, Robert Dick, on Thursday about anything Cindy and Casey Anthony may have said about the possibility Caylee was dropped off at Jay Blanchard Park.

Investigators may also interview a friend of Casey's who's stationed at a military base in California. Sources told Eyewitness News that Casey may have tried to contact or even visit Mike Hawkins after Caylee disappeared.

GEORGE LASHES OUT AT REPORTERS

George Anthony lashed out at reporters Wednesday, one day after his daughter, Casey Anthony, was released from jail on home confinement for the third time. George and Cindy Anthony could get some relief from protesters in their neighborhood as early as next week.

For the first time in several days, George Anthony spoke out. He seemed to have pent up anger against both protesters and the media.

"You are destroying my family, all of you. I wish you would get the hell out of here," he said. "I feel sorry for all of you. Some day you're going to have a judgment day, all of you."

Protesters have started to show up again now that Casey is home.

"We're just trying to get some questions answered," WFTV reporter Mark Boyle told George Anthony.

"No, what you are trying to do is incite me, trying to get me negative, you guys aren't even looking for my granddaughter," he said.

CASEY MAY HAVE MADE UP NAMES

Eyewitness News has learned Casey Anthony might have made up the name of Caylee's so-called nanny, Zenaida Gonzalez, from former classmates' names and the street name for a drug. Investigators are now looking into it because of Eyewitness News' questions.

Casey Anthony said she used to call Zenaida Gonzalez "Zanny," which Eyewitness News found out is also the street name for the anti-anxiety drug Xanax. Eyewitness News has also learned that investigators have asked at least one of her friends questions about Casey and Xanax during a lie detector test.

Eyewitness News has learned that Casey Anthony had apparently asked her ex-fiancé Jesse Grund about Xanax while they were instant-messaging during the time they were engaged. Grund was asked the questions when he was hooked up to a polygraph by the FBI.

Xanax goes by the name "Zanny" on the street, which has some wondering if "Zanny the nanny" was a reference to the drug and not the nickname Casey says she used for the mysterious nanny, Zenaida Gonzalez.

Eyewitness News has discovered that a girl named Zenaida was in Casey's homeroom at Colonial High School before Casey dropped out. She had a different last name, not Gonzalez, but there were seven students in her class whose last name is Gonzalez.

The names Casey has made up as her friends who introduced her to Zenaida also show up in her Colonial High School classmates roster. She named a Raquel Ferrell, who investigators say does not exist, but there was a Raquel Rosa in her class. Casey also named Jennifer Rosa as a friend whom investigators can't find. She had a classmate named James Ferrell and the name Jennifer shows up close by.

Investigators are now checking into it to find out whether it's more than just a series of coincidences.