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Passenger stabs driver, takes truck, deputies say
By Times Staff
Published August 16, 2005
LACOOCHEE - A 26-year-old man was carjacked and stabbed early Sunday by someone he was driving home from a bar, authorities said.
David Justin Perrone, 26, told Pasco County sheriff's deputies that he left the S&F Lounge on U.S. 301 shortly before it closed at 2 a.m. He met a man in the parking lot, who asked for a ride home. The two stopped first at a convenience store, bought soda, then continued toward Arena Road, where the man said he lived.
The two chatted in Perrone's red Ford pickup, the man telling Perrone his name, a report says.
But when Perrone turned onto Arena Road, the man told him to loop around a tree and stop. The man then pulled out a pocket knife and demanded money, stabbing Perrone once in the chest, the report says.
Perrone gave the man $5 and tried to get out of the truck, and the man stabbed him again under the chin. Once Perrone escaped, the man took off in Perrone's truck.
Sheriff's Office spokesman Doug Tobin described Perrone's injuries as minor cuts. The report named the suspect in the carjacking, but it was blacked out because no arrests have been made. He is described as a 28-year-old homeless man.
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