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LAND O'LAKES - Pasco County sheriff's detectives Monday released a composite sketch of a man who stole drugs in robberies at two east Pasco Walgreens stores.
The robber hit a Wesley Chapel Walgreens at 28115 State Road 54 about 9 p.m. Aug. 23. On July 11 about 9:30 p.m., he robbed a pharmacy technician at another Walgreens, 2029 Collier Parkway in Land O'Lakes.
In both cases, the robber presented the pharmacy technician with a specific list of drugs, including oxycodone and morphine. In the Land O'Lakes robbery, he even requested specific dosages of each drug on his list. The pharmacists provided the drugs and the robber fled.
Anyone with information on the robberies is asked to call Pasco County Sheriff's Detective Stephen Foshey toll-free at1-800-854-2862, ext. 5009.
Woman accused of spitting on deputy
ZEPHYRHILLS - It started when an off-duty Pasco sheriff's deputy said he was trying to get a drunken woman home, and out of traffic, late Saturday night.It ended with her in jail for spitting on the deputy, authorities say.
Kimberly Cozzetto, 36, was charged with battery on a law enforcement officer and disorderly intoxication.
Deputy Dean Yingling was working off-duty at Cheers 54 off State Road 54, his report said, when several people reported to him at 11:57 p.m. that a woman was darting in front of traffic on Coats Road and tried to ride on the back of a Tampa Tribune truck.
"The defendant appeared highly intoxicated and she was staggering and falling and making no sense in her speech," the deputy wrote.
The deputy offered to give her a ride back to the bar, where he would call her a cab for a ride home. Instead, she ran back toward Coats Road, tripped and fell over shrubbery. After she tripped in the middle of the road, the deputy said, he placed the "uncooperative" and "belligerent" woman in his cruiser.
Back at the bar, Cozzetto and her boyfriend, who was not identified, were put in a cab. But "five seconds" later the cab driver got out and threw her out of his vehicle, the report said. Cozzetto continued to abuse deputies and others at the scene, the report said, so she was arrested.
But Cozzetto kept kicking the back windows in a deputy's cruiser, the report said, and kept slipping out of a leg restraint. It was while Yingling was tightening the restraint, the report said, that she spit on him. She only cooperated after deputies used pepper-spray, the report said, but she refused to identify herself.
Cozzetto, 34402 Chancey Road, was in the Pasco County jail late Monday, held in lieu of $2,600 bail.
Roommate gets rude awakening with stick
ZEPHYRHILLS - A 45-year-old woman awoke early Sunday morning to the blows of a wooden stick, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office said, one wielded by her roommate.
Douglas Duncan, 46, 37750 State Road 54, was charged with aggravated battery. Colleen Valcourt told deputies that she got home to her apartment about 12:30 a.m. Sunday. About 90 minutes later, she awoke to someone striking her with a stick three times, the sheriff's report said.
Valcourt said she wrestled the stick away from Duncan and fled, the report said.
Duncan told deputies he was sleeping on the couch when he heard someone trying to break into the apartment, the report said. So he grabbed the stick and swung at the intruder, the report said, but didn't realize it was his roommate. He thought she had moved out two days before.
Injuries were observed on Valcourt's head, neck and left bicep, the report said, and a piece of wood with blood and hair on it was found.
Duncan is being held in the county jail in lieu of $10,000 bail.
Driver in crash facing DUI, child neglect charges
SEVEN SPRINGS - A Hudson electrician was charged with child neglect and driving under the influence Sunday after the car he was driving with three boys inside careened out of control, crashed through a guardrail and rolled over.
No one was seriously injured in the 3:07 p.m. crash at State Road 54 and Old County Road, Florida Highway Patrol spokesman Larry Coggins said.
An arrest report said George A. Schaller, 46, of 8926 Helmsly Lane in Hudson told troopers the accelerator on his car got stuck, causing him to lose control and crash through a guardrail. His two nephews, ages 15 and 13, and an unidentified friend were in the car.
Coggins said the two teens were treated for minor injuries and the unidentified youth left the crash scene before troopers could get his name.
In an arrest report, a trooper said Schaller had "an odor of alcoholic beverage" and "glassy bloodshot eyes." Schaller declined to take a blood test or field sobriety test, the report said. He was arrested and taken to the county jail, where he remained Monday evening. Bail was set at $12,000.