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Police reports
By Times staff reports Teen faces more sex abuse chargesInvestigators say the 15-year-old boy arrested last month in the rape of two children also abused an 8-year-old boy. Matthew Ross Zaeske of 7404 Castanea Drive in Port Richey faces additional charges of sexual battery, and lewd and lascivious acts, Pasco County sheriff's deputies said. He already faced four counts of sexual battery on two children he was babysitting. The State's Attorney's Office has not announced whether it will charge Zaeske as an adult. If it does, he could face life in prison. On Tuesday, he was rearrested at the county juvenile detention center near San Antonio. Deputies said that last summer he fondled a boy and performed oral sex on him. He also threatened the boy, telling him to stay quiet, deputies said. Man robs Circle K store in HudsonHUDSON -- A man with a mask, blue hooded sweat shirt and rifle robbed a convenience store early Wednesday morning, sheriff's officials said. About 3:30 a.m. the man left Circle K, 10011 Hudson Ave., with a small amount of money, officials said. Deputies searched with dogs but did not find him. The robber is a white man between 18 and 40, sheriff's spokesman Jon Powers said. He was wearing block Converse sneakers and black jogging pants with a white stripe. The clerk was the only person in the store at the time of the robbery and no one was injured, Powers said. Deputy suspended in inmate's escapeA corrections deputy has been suspended two days without pay in the mistaken release last fall of Robert Pettyjohn II, who faces numerous animal abuse charges. Pettyjohn was supposed to be extradited to Pinellas County jail Oct. 22. He slipped into the release line and deputy Kimberly Shaw, 37, let him go. By the time she realized her mistake, he was gone. For at least an hour and a half, 17 deputies and a sheriff's dog searched for Pettyjohn. He turned himself in about six hours after his escape. Holiday man arrested in hit and runNEW PORT RICHEY -- A 19-year-old Holiday man was arrested Wednesday in the hit-and-run accident that injured an 8-year-old boy earlier in the week, police said. Bruce Strickland of 3325 Columbus Drive in Holiday faces a charge of leaving the scene of a crash with injuries, said New Port Richey officer Jeff Harrington. Strickland also has an outstanding arrest warrant charging him with a probation violation, Harrington said. Strickland was driving a 1987 Camaro about 8 p.m. Monday east on Massachusetts Avenue when he hit the boy, Harrington said. The boy was flown to Bayfront Medical Center in St. Petersburg, where he was treated and released. Strickland was being held Wednesday afternoon at the New Port Richey police station. He was scheduled to be booked into the county jail in Land O'Lakes, Harrington said. Four teens suspected in burglariesNEW PORT RICHEY -- Deputies suspect that four Tampa 17-year-olds are responsible for four burglaries Tuesday in Park Lake Estates, Pasco sheriff's officials said. Two homes on Alligator Drive, one on Weasel Drive and one on Cypress Lakes Boulevard were broken into between 6:45 a.m. and midafternoon, deputies said. From one house, cellular phone equipment and jewelry were reported missing, deputies said. From another a cellular phone and a video game were taken, and eggs were splattered around the house. From a third, computer equipment was missing. Inside the fourth house, nothing of any value was taken. The burglars trashed several rooms, rammed a car through the laundry room and garage door, and splattered eggs around the house. The homeowner said it appeared that somebody ate some of the Spanish rice from his refrigerator, according to deputies. In at least three of the cases, the burglar or burglars entered through windows. About 2 p.m. Tuesday in Tampa, police stopped four boys in connection with a Tampa robbery, Pasco sheriff's spokesman Jon Powers said. "Some of the loot in the car belonged to Pasco County residents," Powers said. He said the items have been returned. The only missing item, he said, is the jewelry from one of the homes. The boys were being held Wednesday in Hillsborough County's juvenile detention center. Deputies are still trying to link them to the fourth Pasco break-in during which nothing was taken, Powers said. Two students face weapons chargesHUDSON -- Two students were arrested Tuesday after authorities said they brought weapons to school. Ryan Patrick Klaskow, 18, a Hudson High School student, faces charges of possession of a weapon on a school campus and possession of marijuana, deputies said. Klaskow gave officials permission to search his car, where they found a knife, a box cutter and a pipe with some marijuana residue, deputies said. A 13-year-old Hudson Middle School seventh-grader, who is not being named by the Times because of his age, faces possession of a weapon on a school campus charge, deputies said. The boy had a folding knife in his camouflage pants, deputies said.
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