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Police reports
By Times staff writer Cab passenger threatens to stab another over tipSPRING HILL -- One man threatened to stab another early Saturday after he would not tip a taxicab driver, Hernando County sheriff's deputies reported. Cabbie Steven Cuomo picked up a man at Scores Sports Bar & Grill and then collected four other people from the Kash n' Karry at Mariner Boulevard and Spring Hill Drive about 2 a.m., authorities said. The four people in the back asked Cuomo to take them to Taco Bell and then home, and the man in the front asked whether they were saving enough money to tip the cabbie. When they arrived home, members of the group said they only had enough for cab fare. The passenger in the front argued with an intoxicated passenger in the back -- Roy William Ceurvels Jr., authorities said. The cabbie said Ceurvels told the upfront passenger to "get out of the cab, you punk" and then the man in the front seat whipped around and held a knife to Ceurvels' throat. Ceurvels got out of the cab and the cabbie sped away. No one was injured. Authorities are searching for the unknown passenger, whom the cabbie left at a gas station on Mariner Boulevard. Motorist robbed while stopped at intersectionSPRING HILL -- A 20-year-old woman told authorities that she was robbed at gunpoint Sunday while waiting to turn on Deltona Boulevard. Judith Kathleen Foster said she was returning from a friend's house in her 1988 Buick and stopped at the intersection of Elgin and Deltona boulevards at about 8:30 p.m. She said a light-colored sport utility vehicle with a loud muffler pulled beside her. She said a man wearing a black nylon jacket and black stocking mask got out of the car and tried to open her door. "Give me everything you have," the man said. Foster told him she had nothing. The man, who wore shiny gloves, pulled out a black metallic handgun and pointed it at her face. He took about $20 from her purse, Foster said. As she was removing her jewelry, another car arrived and the robber sped away, she told Hernando County sheriff's deputies. Foster went home and called 911. No arrests have been made.
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