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Man accused of igniting house with fire bomb

By Times Staff Writer
Published April 2, 2006

NEW PORT RICHEY - A 28-year-old Holiday man was arrested Saturday morning on suspicion of lighting a gasoline-filled plastic bottle and throwing it at a home.

The amateur fire bomb caused a fire at 4645 Irene Loop about 5 a.m., the Sheriff's Office reported. William Lopez Pereira, of 4242 Oak Bluff Ave., was charged with throwing a dangerous missile/fire bomb. He remained at the Land O'Lakes jail Saturday on $11,000 bail.

HOLIDAY - A 29-year-old Palm Harbor woman was arrested early Friday after failing a field sobriety test with two children in the car.

A Pasco County sheriff's deputy stopped Piper Jane Wight at U.S. 19 and Sunray Drive shortly before 3 a.m. after seeing Wight stop at a green light and a flashing yellow light, according to the arrest report. Her daughters, ages 5 and 9, were in the car.

Breath tests revealed Wight's blood-alcohol level was at 0.189 and 0.187 percents, well above 0.08 percent, the threshold at which Florida law presumes that someone cannot drive safely.

Wight, of 234 Jean St., was charged with driving under the influence and child neglect. She was released from the county jail in Land O'Lakes on $20,500 bail.

NEW PORT RICHEY - Using forged prescriptions and fake IDs, a New Port Richey man told officials that he was able to buy 360 oxycodone pills within the past five weeks.

Jack Christopher Busch, 40, of 6615 Sierra Ter. filled the prescriptions at three Walgreens pharmacies, according to a Sheriff's Office report.

He was charged with five counts of trafficking in oxycodone. He remained Saturday at the county jail in Land O'Lakes on $26,000 bail.

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