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Briefs

Boy, 11, among suspects found barricaded in home

By Times Staff
Published January 10, 2006

RUSKIN - A standoff began with a gunshot Monday and ended with a surprise for the SWAT team.

One of the three suspects who surrendered after barricading himself in a home was 11 years old.

The boy, a Cypress Creek Elementary School student, faces two felony counts of armed robbery. A 16-year-old girl who surrendered with him, Alicia Paula Sandival, faces identical charges. Santiago Sanchez, 21, suspected of being the ringleader, faces two counts of armed burglary and aggravated battery with a firearm.

About 10:45 a.m., Joel Barrera returned to his Ruskin home to find three people inside. Sanchez fired a shot at Barrera, sheriff's spokeswoman Debbie Carter said, and the suspects ran out the back, dropping CDs on the lawn.

The trio fled to the Morning Side Mobile Home Park, 221 21st St. SE, and holed up in the home of a woman who was babysitting. She grabbed the two children she was tending to and ran out.

Deputies on the scene ordered the three people to come out. When that didn't work, the SWAT team arrived, and the suspects surrendered.

Some of Barrera's jewelry was recovered on the suspects, Carter said. The trio didn't say how they knew each other, she added.

Woman gets five years probation in son's death

TAMPA - A Hillsborough judge sentenced a Tampa woman to five years' probation Monday, nearly a year after she saw her husband fatally beat their 3-year-old son.

Nysheerah Paris, 21, was charged with culpable negligence after doctors determined that several blows to the head led to the death of Ronnie Paris on Jan. 28, 2005. The young mother was not charged with the boy's death, but a jury convicted her husband, Ronnie Paris Jr., of second-degree murder after his trial in July.

The couple lost custody of the boy in May 2002 after doctors found he was undernourished and had a broken arm. Authorities later returned the boy to his parents home in December 2004 after they completed parenting classes.

During her husband's trial, Nysheerah Paris said the boy's father frequently played rough with the toddler and cuffed him on the head several times before he died.

On Monday, Judge Barbara Fleischer also ordered the woman to continue working full-time, study for her high school diploma and perform 100 hours of community service.

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