Police reports

39-year-old accused of stealing mom's car

DADE CITY -- A 39-year-old man is in jail after authorities said he stole his mother's car and traded it for drugs.

Thomas Henry Aungst III, 37125 Golden Road Court, is facing two counts of grand theft auto.

After his arrest, he admitted to giving his mother's car to a man in exchange for crack cocaine, according to a Pasco sheriff's report.

Aungst remained in the Pasco County jail at Land O'Lakes Thursday in lieu of $11,000 bail.

Teacher picked up on grand theft warrant

DADE CITY -- A 24-year-old substitute teacher was arrested Wednesday on a warrant charging grand theft.

Kerry Leigh Odom, 14901 17th St., remained in the Pasco County jail at Land O'Lakes on Thursday in lieu of $5,000 bail.

No other details were available Thursday.

Driver reports he was forced from road

DADE CITY -- A 45-year-old man told authorities he was driving on Prospect Road about 2:30 p.m. Tuesday with his two daughters and a friend when a man in a red pickup tried to run him off the road and pointed a gun at him.

Tim Hines of Dade City told sheriff's deputies he escaped when a blue dump truck drove between him and the man wielding the gun. No arrests had been made Thursday.

According to a sheriff's report, Hines was heading north on Prospect Road near Handcart Road when a red Toyota pickup pulled out of an orange grove. He told deputies the truck pulled up beside him, forced him off the road repeatedly and popped one of his tires.

The man pulled over on Clinton Avenue and got out of his truck, the report states. Hines, who pushed his 8-year-old daughters to the floorboard, said the man then pulled what appeared to be a handgun out of a toolbox and yelled at Hines to come back.

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