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Girlfriend leaps to rescue -- onto a deputy's back
By WILL VAN SANT Love makes one do the strangest things: Lapse into romantic reveries when you should be hard at work, giggle like a kid -- perhaps even attack law enforcement officers. It seems the sight of Hernando County sheriff's Deputy Keith Brown subduing her drunken boyfriend in the Scores Sports Bar & Grill parking lot late Wednesday was too much for 21-year-old Lauren Moore of Brooksville. Shortly after being called to the U.S. 19 bar, Brown found some 60 people milling about outside. According to sheriff's reports, Brown tried questioning the boyfriend, 21-year-old Brian Anthony Gomes of Spring Hill, but found him "extremely intoxicated." Moments later, Gomes and another man, David Vagil, 27, of Hudson, began beating each another, the deputy said. As Brown attempted to wrestle Gomes to the ground, reports state, "Mr. Gomes' girlfriend, Lauren Moore, then did jump onto Deputy Keith Brown's back and wrapped her arms around his neck, attempting to choke him." Moore could not be reached for comment. Witnesses said Moore had earlier been assaulting people in the bar and yelling obscenities. Moore was charged with assaulting a law enforcement officer, resisting an officer with violence, and battery. Gomes and Vagil both were charged with battery, as was 26-year-old Terrance Hannah of Spring Hill, who had been involved in an unrelated fight. All four were released on their own recognizance. Lt. Joe Paez of the Sheriff's Office said it was unclear what caused all the violence, attributing the arrests to "people under the influence of alcohol, losing their inhibitions and good sense."
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