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Ex-teacher off to prison for e-mails
By TIMES WIRES
Published October 18, 2006
A former Pinellas Park High School teacher was sentenced to nearly eight years in prison for asking some of his female students to send him nude photos of themselves. Jason M. Hooper, 31, pleaded no contest Friday to 15 combined charges of using a child in a sexual performance; seduction of a child via computer; transmission of material harmful to minors; and possession of child pornography. As part of a plea agreement, Hooper will serve seven years and nine months in prison, though he will receive nearly 10 months off that sentence for time he has served in jail since his arrest, court records show. He also was designated as a sexual offender and must serve 10 years of probation after his release from prison. Bank of America branch robbed Police are searching for a man in a motorcycle cap who robbed a Bank of America branch Saturday morning. The man handed a note to a teller shortly after 10:30 a.m. saying he was robbing the bank at 5701 38th Avenue N. He fled with an undisclosed amount of money, police said. The man, who is in his 30s, was last seen wearing an orange Harley-Davidson cap, medium color shirt with dark pants, and white tennis shoes, police said. He was about 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighed about 160 pounds. Police do not know if he had a weapon. Anyone with information is asked to call St. Petersburg police Detective Billy Crews at 893-7266 or the police communication center at 893-7780. Woman kidnapped, husband injured Police are searching for three men who kidnapped a woman early Tuesday and shot her husband in the leg. The three broke into an apartment at 5055 S Dale Mabry Highway at 12:21 a.m., police say. The men tied up Myron Woyd, 20, and forced his mother, Sylvia B. Wright, 43, into her 1996 maroon Jeep Cherokee. The men made Wright call her husband and tell him her car broke down at MacDill Avenue and Paul Avenue. No one has been arrested.
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