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Police reports
By Times staff writer Jewish center, home at temple hit by vandalsPORT RICHEY -- On the same day that a residence attached to a Jewish temple was vandalized, someone broke windows and spray-painted a slur on the Jewish Community Center in Port Richey on Saturday. According to a Pasco County sheriff's report, a passer-by noticed the graffiti on the east wall of the community center. Two windows were also broken. Sheriff's deputies said the vandals caused $250 in damage. Also on Saturday, vandals broke two windows and urinated on the front door handle of a home attached to the Beth-El Shalom Temple in New Port Richey. Terry Lezak, who lives in the residence attached to the temple at the corner of Missouri Avenue and Congress Street with his wife and two young daughters, said he was awake working on the computer about 3:30 a.m. when he heard glass breaking in his living room. He went to investigate and found a beer mug had shattered the window. Then glass broke in the computer room he had just left. He ran back into the room and saw that someone had thrown a premixed coffee drink through the window, he said. Lezak said he then heard a vehicle speeding away. After he called New Port Richey police, Lezak said he went outside and found that someone had urinated on the handle of the front door. No damage was done to the temple. Man arrested, faces battery chargePORT RICHEY -- A 30-year-old Port Richey man is facing an aggravated domestic battery charge after a woman he lives with told Port Richey Police he beat her until she branded his initial into her arm. According to an arrest report, Port Richey police found Michael Eugene Wandell Jr., 7804 Grand Boulevard, Apt. 35, at the Pasco County jail being booked in by sheriff's deputies for other charges. A report on those charges was unavailable Sunday. Port Richey police were told by Kristina Walton that Wandell hit her outside the Porthole Pub on Treadway Drive. Wandell then demanded Walton go to their apartment or "her life would be over," the report said. At the apartment, Walton said Wandell hit her several times and demanded she burn the letter "M" into her arm, or he would continue beating her. Walton told police she complied to avoid further injury. Wandell was being held on $14,600 bail at the Land O'Lakes jail facing charges of aggravated domestic battery, domestic assault, battery and two counts each of domestic battery and criminal mischief.
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