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Grandson used as shield, deputies say

By TIMES STAFF
Published August 20, 2007

SPRING HILL

Pasco sheriff's deputies say Nancy Kristiansen knew she was about to be arrested for throwing a lit cigarette at one of them, so she tried to hide behind a human shield: her 3-year-old grandson.

That didn't work. Kristiansen, 56, was charged Saturday with battery on a law enforcement officer, child abuse and resisting arrest without violence.

According to an arrest report, a deputy arrived at Kristiansen's home on McBride Road to serve an arrest warrant on another matter. He said that Kristiansen became combative, demanding he get out of her house and then throwing her cigarette at his chest.

When the deputy attempted to arrest her, he wrote, she grabbed her grandson and put him on her lap. "The defendant then began swinging her arms as if she was going to strike me while the child was in her lap," the report says. The child was removed from her lap, and she was arrested.

ZEPHYRHILLS

Caller asks police to help him move

Pablo Guzman called 911 on Saturday at least six times, authorities say, for "non-emergency matters."

Among them? He asked Zephyrhills police to help him move out.

Guzman, 55, whom police say was "extremely intoxicated" when they arrived, was charged with making false 911 calls and disorderly conduct.

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