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Police reports
By Times staff reports Fight between man, boy under investigationHILL 'N DALE -- The boy and the man wanted to know which of them was toughest. So, investigators say, they stepped outside an Aubrey Avenue home on Wednesday morning before noon and started punching each other. The boy, 16, picked up a sock with a piece of metal inside and swung it over his head, hitting Chonus Austin, 20, of Wildwood, several times. To defend himself, Austin pulled a knife. Before long, the boy had a large gash on his right upper thigh. The boy was treated at Brooksville Regional Hospital and released. Austin fled after the fight, authorities said. No charges have been filed. Deputies were still looking for Austin late Wednesday to see if he was hurt and to hear his side of the story. If deputies determine that the incident was "mutual combat," they will present the case to the state attorney's office for a decision on whether to pursue charges, said Lt. Joe Paez of the Sheriff's Office. "If the guy was getting beat up and tried to defend himself, it may be real shaky all around," Paez said. Paez said the man and teenager knew each other and fought outside of a home where Austin had gone to visit relatives. "It seems they were challenging each other to see who could be the baddest," Paez said. Woman sentenced in check fraud caseSPRING HILL -- A former Spring Hill doctor's office manager pleaded no contest to organized fraud and was ordered to pay $55,000 in restitution. Susan Puma-Oliveira, 42, 3206 Amherst Ave., received 10 years' probation, 600 hours of community service and was ordered to have no access to checking accounts or debit cards except her own, her mother's and that of her Cortez Boulevard business, the Vanilla Bean coffee shop. Authorities said Puma-Oliveira embezzled $66,367.83 from Dr. William Young's family medical practice, Medical & Diagnostic Center on Commercial Way, where she had worked for eight years. She was sentenced June 11. Puma-Oliveira made 140 fraudulent transactions from 1999 to 2001. She issued fraudulent checks to pay bills for herself, her business and her husband's business, Absolute Home Inspections. She presented checks for Young's signature and altered the amount to cover credit card bills, coffee supplies and a maid service for her parents' Pasco County home, authorities said. She issued herself 17 weeks' paid vacation and transferred money into herbank account. When she left the office, Young discovered he had only $6,000 in his account when he believed he had more than $40,000.
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