Friday, March 8, 2013
She was pulled over Thursday night for driving without her headlights illuminated.
A Lutz woman faces a DUI charge after authorities say she was driving impaired with two young children in the car Thursday night. According to the Pasco County Sheriff's Office, Leah Ann Deyoung, 37, was observed driving without her headlights on in the area of Oak Grove Boulevard and Rolling View Court in Lutz at about 9 p.m. on March 7. When the deputy made contact with Deyoung, her eyes were bloodshot and glassy and she had a strong odor of alcohol on her breath, an arrest report stated. Deyoung "denied drinking and stated with slurred speech she rinsed her mouth with Listerine," according to the report. She then performed poorly on a field sobriety test, and twice refused to take a breath test. Deyoung of 24336 Summer Nights Court in …
Monday, January 28, 2013
Three Sunlake High students were arrested Friday for the December break-in, after two of them ran away to Tennessee.
Two Sunlake High students broke into a Lutz home and walked out with seven firearms, ammunition and at least two knives, as well as a carved pipe collection, liquor and cigars, according to the Pasco County Sheriff's Office. Then, one of them broke into the home again, this time with a different accomplice. The names of the three teens are being withheld by Patch because of their ages. According to arrest reports, the first break in occurred Dec. 17 on Fox Chapel Drive in Lutz while the homeowner was out of town. At that time, seven firearms with a reported value of $2,500, along with ammunition, knives, a pipe collection valued at more than $5,000 and a variety of consumables such as liquor and cigars were taken. On Dec. 23, the pipes and…
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
One of the suspects in the April 1, 2011, robbery of First Bank in Lutz has been convicted and sentenced.
U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich decided last week that the joke should be on the Tampa man who decided to rob the First Bank branch in Lutz on April Fool’s Day 2011. Kovachevich, according to TBO.com, sentenced Francisco Feliciano to 41 years and two months in federal prison in relation to the First Bank robbery and another incident that took place a few days later at the San Antonio Federal Credit Union. Feliciano was found guilty of two counts of bank robbery, one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm and two counts of carrying a firearm during the commission of a robbery, TBO.com reported. A grand jury found Feliciano guilty in June. The sentencing came down last week. The Lutz robbery took place in the …
Thursday, October 11, 2012
The incident occurred in the parking lot of Amici Pizza & Deli.
An August shooting at a Lutz pizza restaurant has led to the arrest of the victim. According to the Pasco County Sheriff's Office, Christopher Boreland and his girlfriend were in a truck parked at Amici Pizza & Deli, 26252 Wesley Chapel Blvd., at about 8:30 p.m. on Aug. 31. Another couple got into the vehicle to purchase marijuana from Boreland, according to a previous Patch story. The couple tried to steal the marijuana, Pasco sheriff's spokesman Kevin Doll said Thursday. When Boreland resisted, he was shot in the arm. The other man and woman jumped out of the truck, leaving the scene in a Toyota Camry. Boreland's girlfriend drove him to a hospital immediately following the incident. When deputies responded to the hospital, they noticed …
Friday, October 5, 2012
He forced his way into her home early Wednesday morning.
He went to his ex-girlfriend's apartment and asked her to take him back. When she refused, deputies say James Gregory Cole Jr., 32, forced his way into the home at 1781 Samurai Point in Lutz and attacked her current boyfriend. According to a Pasco County complaint affidavit, the woman told Cole to leave several times after he knocked on her door around 12:30 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 3. He refused, then entered the home without her permission and struck the other man in the face, gouging his right eye. Post-Miranda, Cole told a deputy he had been drinking before he went to the home, and didn't remember what happened after the woman told him to leave. "I'm sure whatever they said I did, they aren't lying," Cole said, according to the report. …
Friday, August 31, 2012
One person is being treated for a gunshot wound.
Pasco County Sheriff’s deputies are investigating a Friday shooting in a parking lot at 26254 Wesley Chapel Blvd in Lutz. One person was shot in the incident and is being treated at an undisclosed hospital, according to an email from Sheriff’s Office Spokesman Doug Tobin. Around 8:30 p.m., deputies received a call about an altercation in the parking lot. Early investigation shows that a man and a woman were in a Toyota Tundra pickup in the parking lot. Two other people approached the pickup. When all four people were inside, a witness heard gunshots, according to Tobin. Two people jumped out of the pickup and fled in a Toyota Camry. The man and woman who were in the pickup drove to a Tampa area hospital where one person is being treated …
Lori McCandrew
9:16 pm on Friday, March 8, 2013
Telling a cop you smell of listerine, seriously. Poor kids more ›