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Out on bail, Brandon man threatens witness, police say
By Times Staff Writer
Published August 12, 2005
TAMPA - Twelve days after his July 17 arrest on an attempted murder charge, Richard Scott Bolitho posted $52,000 bond and walked out of the county jail.
The 44-year-old Brandon man was back in jail Wednesday night, though, accused of threatening to harm a witness in the state's case against him. Bolitho's girlfriend was arrested, too, after police say she tried to keep officers from taking him into custody.
Police first arrested Bolitho last month on one count of attempted first-degree murder stemming from an attack 18 months earlier. They say he stabbed Darryl Chapman, 41, nine times in the parking lot of Warehouse Liquors on Gandy Boulevard in January 2004.
Bolitho hit vital organs, but Chapman survived, Tampa police spokesman Joe Durkin said.
Durkin said that when detectives learned of the threats, they got a judge to revoke his bond. Wednesday night they went to the Brandon home he shares with his girlfriend, 33-year-old Margaret Cunningham, Durkin said.
"She was uncooperative," Durkin said, and officers charged her with one count of obstruction.
They found Bolitho at 10 p.m. at a bar in Apollo Beach, Durkin said. Officers took him to the county jail, where he is being held without bail.
He is scheduled to appear before Judge William Fuente on Aug. 18, court records show.
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