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Hillsborough briefs

Briefs and news of note.

By Times Staff
Published September 22, 2006

21-year-old man dies in motorcycle wreck

TAMPA - Jesus Ramos, a 21-year-old Tampa man, died Wednesday evening after a car pulled out in front of his motorcycle, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.

Ramos, who lived at 7021 S 24th St., died at 8:29 p.m. at Tampa General Hospital after a 2003 Chevrolet car pulled out in front of his 1999 Suzuki on 78th Street near the exit from the Lee Roy Selmon Crosstown Expressway, deputies say.

Ramos was headed north on 78th Street at 7:40 p.m., when the car came off the expressway exit and pulled in front of Ramos, deputies say.

The car's driver is John Lane, 71, of 2015 Crooked Creek Way in Valrico, deputies say. Deputies are investigating the crash. No charges have been filed.

Man gets return trip to jail on assault charge

TAMPA - Fredrick Redmon, 49, had been out of jail less than four hours Wednesday when he got in more trouble, deputies said. By Thursday afternoon, he was again behind bars.

After Redmon was released from the Hillsborough County jail Wednesday afternoon, he went to his ex-girlfriend's Apollo Beach home.

There, deputies said, he beat up 48-year-old Ilona Suzanne "Lonnie" Roberts' new boyfriend, Gregory Quinn, 52.

Redmon held a knife to Quinn's throat, forced Roberts into her 1990 Oldsmobile and drove off with her, deputies said.

Later in the day, Roberts and Redmon returned to the Apollo Beach home. Roberts told deputies she had left voluntarily with Redmon.

Deputies arrested Redmon on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, battery and robbery, according to an arrest report. He was again booked into the jail, where bail was set at $10,000.

Redmon had previously been jailed on multiple drug charges.

Man robs South Tampa bank, runs away

TAMPA - Police are searching for a man who robbed a Platinum Bank in South Tampa on Thursday morning.

At 10 a.m., the robber handed a note to a teller at the bank, located at 408 S MacDill Ave., police say. In the note, the robber demanded money, saying he was armed and had explosives.

The robber took an undisclosed sum, then left the bank. He began to climb aboard a bicycle, but instead he ran when a bank employee chased after him.

No one was injured in the robbery.

Police described the robber as a 30- to 40-year-old black man, 5 feet 10 with a medium build, bald, last seen wearing a dirty white T-shirt and tan pants.

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