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Police reports
By Times staff reports Woman accused of mailing pills to jailLAND O'LAKES -- Pasco County sheriff's deputies arrested a 22-year-old woman Tuesday who they say had mailed contraband to the father of her children, who was at the Land O'Lakes jail. Deputies said Jessica Jean Golpe of 8837 Sterling Lane in Port Richey sent two crushed tablets of "Gold Bar Xenex" concealed in a greeting card. Reports did not give further details about the tablets. Golpe faces a charge of introducing contraband into a county facility. She was taken to Land O'Lakes jail. She was released later Tuesday after posting $5,000 bond. Search is on for thieves who stripped carDADE CITY -- Investigators were searching Wednesday for those responsible for stealing a car from a man in Zephyrhills and later setting the car on fire in Dade City. Sheriff's deputies found the car Tuesday on 21st Street after Dade City police officers called about a suspicious vehicle fire. Deputies said the 1986 white Chevrolet Caprice had been gutted by fire. They also noticed that the engine, transmission, battery and radiator had been removed. Zephyrhills police officers said the car had been stolen from 85-year-old William Wintersteen. No arrests have been made. Cousins charged with throwing rock, threatsNEW PORT RICHEY -- Two teenage cousins were arrested early Tuesday morning after a New Port Richey man told Pasco County Sheriff's deputies that one boy threw a rock through his window and the other boy then threatened to kill the man, arrest reports said. The 17-year-old faces one charge of throwing a deadly missile. The 16-year-old faces one charge of tampering with a victim, reports said. Their names are being withheld by the Times because they are juvenile offenders. The two teens went to the home of Benjamin Grieveson on Lake Drive late Monday night and stood in his front yard and started yelling obscenities at him, Grieveson told deputies. He went outside and briefly argued with them, then one of the teens threw a rock through the home's window, reports said. Grieveson told deputies the rock nearly hit his 72-year-old grandmother. The 17-year-old was stopped by deputies while leaving the scene at about 11:30 p.m., reports said. The 16-year-old then returned and threatened to kill Grieveson for reporting the other to deputies, reports said. He then told deputies he would kill Grieveson if his cousin was arrested. The 16-year-old was stopped by deputies an hour later. The teens were taken to Land O'Lakes jail. Woman accused of fraudulently getting pillsNEW PORT RICHEY -- A 27-year-old New Port Richey woman was arrested by a Florida Attorney General's agent Tuesday after Medicaid investigators learned the woman received more than 2,000 painkiller pills from 14 different doctors since the start of last year, arrest reports said. Linda Ann Elder of 5829 High St., Apt. 101, faces one charge of Medicaid fraud. Elder withheld information from 14 doctors and misrepresented facts about her medical history, according to Lt. Patrick Niemann of the state attorney's Medicaid Fraud Unit. Niemann said she concealed from her doctors that she was being treated by other physicians so that she could receive 2,141 pills between January 2001 and June 2002. Niemann said Elder is addicted to both Hydrocodone and Oxycodone, narcotic painkillers, and was obtaining the pills for her own use. Elder was taken to Land O'Lakes jail and was released Tuesday afternoon on $5,000 bail.
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