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Police reports
By Times staff reports Man pleads innocent in mail hoaxBROOKSVILLE -- The man accused of sending powdered letters to the County Government Center and Sheriff's Office pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to two counts of sending a hoax weapon of mass destruction and one count of criminal solicitation. Donald Kalter, a 36-year-old cabinetmaker who lived in New Port Richey, is accused of causing the evacuation of hundreds of government employees in October by sending two letters that were tested for anthrax. They contained baby powder. Authorities said Kalter was trying to get revenge for the way a local Circuit Court judge handled a friend's divorce. Kalter is scheduled for a pretrial hearing March 6. He is being held without bail at the Hernando County Jail. Deputies chase down their manSPRING HILL -- A 20-year-old Spring Hill man led deputies on a chase Wednesday afternoon as they tried to arrest him on Citrus County charges, the Hernando County Sheriff's Office reported. Michael Stem of 7501 Mead Drive ran, investigators said, when deputies arrived to arrest him on four Citrus County warrants, including carrying a concealed firearm, sale of marijuana within 200 feet of a public park, possession of more than 20 grams of marijuana and failure to appear in court. Stem ran across the lawn of a chiropractic clinic and jumped a fence near Deltona Boulevard before deputies arrested him, said Lt. Joe Paez of the Sheriff's Office. He was taken to the Hernando County Jail, where deputies also charged him with resisting an officer without violence. He was being held in lieu of $500 bail on that charge and has a no bond status for the Citrus charges, according to a jail spokeswoman.
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