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By TIMES WIRES
Published September 18, 2006

Fight over drugs leads to stabbing, deputies report

WIMAUMA - A late-night altercation over drugs ended with a man being stabbed in the throat Saturday, a Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office report says.

Jesus Barron, 46, of 5517 Ninth St., Wimauma, was taken to Tampa General Hospital and is expected to live.

After deputies arrested him, Eugene Thomas Stanford, 22, address unknown, admitted to cutting Barron the report said.

A deputy arrived at 610 Railroad St., in Wimauma just after 11 p.m. to investigate a call about a fight. Covered in blood and holding his neck, Barron ran toward the deputy saying that Stanford was trying to kill him.

Stanford was taken to the Orient Road Jail, charged with attempted first-degree murder, opposing an officer without violence, possession of drug paraphernalia and criminal mischief.

After Stanford's arrest, deputies found a pocket knife on him as well as a crack pipe, an arrest report said.

Man arrested, accused of forcing sex at knifepoint

TAMPA - Police arrested and charged a 39-year-old man with sexual battery Sunday after his girlfriend said he forced her to have sex with him at knifepoint.

Willie Bell was taken to the Orient Road Jail, where he was held without bail.

A Tampa police report said Bell lives with his girlfriend on N 15th Street, and the couple has a 10-month-old child.

Police seek man in fatal halfway house stabbing

NORTH TAMPA - A halfway house resident was stabbed to death in front of housemates Sunday morning during breakfast, Tampa police said.

Another resident stabbed Clint Noffsinger and then left, police said.

Bob Kennedy saw his roommate, David Delvalle, walk into the living room of the Reality House just after 8 a.m. Delvalle, 41, walked to the back yard where Noffsinger, 32, was eating.

Noffsinger held a stool out in front of himself and backed away. Delvalle charged at him and stabbed him in the back and side four or five times.

Noffsinger died at the hospital three hours later. Delvalle took off in a 1998 white Ford F-150 pickup truck with the logo of his employer, Phillips Fire Sprinklers.

Sunday night, police still searched for him, with a warrant for second-degree murder.

Housemates say the two men didn't know each other and lived in two separate houses that make up the halfway home.

Delvalle had been a resident for a couple of months and Noffsinger had been living there less than a week, police said.

Delvalle had previously lived at a psychiatric facility, his roommate said.

Kennedy said Delvalle never gave him problems. Delvalle worked a lot and was going through a divorce.

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