Crime journal
By Times Staff Writer
Published February 16, 2008
BROOKSVILLE
Youth accused of profanity is arrested again
The Brooksville teen who was busted for reciting some profanity-laced rap has been arrested again. Christopher Holder, 19, was one of three suspects charged Thursday afternoon with burglary and a litter law violation. He remained behind bars Friday at the Hernando County Jail in lieu of a $5,000 bail. Witnesses told Hernando County sheriff's deputies that they saw Holder and the two other suspects, Kenneth Brown, 19, and a 16-year-old, go into a home on O'Neal Road, east of Brooksville, take some copper wire and leave in a pickup truck. A deputy later found the trio burning the wire over a fire pit in a nearby home. Holder was somewhat infamously arrested Feb. 3 for singing a few profane verses from Louisiana rapper Lil' Boosie as he walked down a rural road east of Brooksville. A mother complained that her children could hear him. He pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct and breach of peace and received six months of probation.
Woman accused of killing man, 68
Brooksville police Thursday charged a Spring Hill woman with murder in connection with the death of Robert Rutherford, 68. Treva Lynn Anderson, 23, is being held without bail at the Hernando County Jail. Rutherford was found beaten and strangled in his apartment early Thursday. Neighbors said Rutherford had a habit of welcoming young women, some of them drug addicts, into his home when times were rough. Anderson was wanted on a probation violation at the time of her arrest, Brooksville police Chief George Turner said.
TARPON SPRINGS
Officer cleared in shooting at burglar
An off-duty Clearwater police officer who shot at an intruder at his Tarpon Springs home last month was cleared of any wrongdoing by an internal investigation. Recruit Officer Eliad Glenn was in the shower Dec. 19 when a burglar broke into his home. Glenn armed himself with a handgun he owned personally, confronted the burglar and fired one shot at the man while he was in the garage and four or five more at the man and his car. Investigators did not find evidence that Glenn hit the man or the car. Glenn, a Clearwater officer for nearly a year, has returned to duty. Police have issued an arrest warrant for Quentin Y. Washington, 21, of Tampa in connection with the burglary.
PALM HARBOR
Pharmacy robber demands painkiller
A gun-wielding robber demanded not cash, but the powerful painkiller Oxycontin during a holdup at a Walgreens pharmacy Friday morning, officials said. A stocky white man wearing a dark wool overcoat, matching wool cap and black gloves went into the Walgreens at 33670 U.S. 19 N at 5:37 a.m. Friday, brandished a gun and handed the pharmacist a note demanding the drug, Pinellas County sheriff's officials said. He ran out after receiving an undisclosed amount of Oxycontin. Anyone with information is asked to call sheriff's Detective Paul Martin at (727) 583-6200 or, to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers toll-free at 1-800-873-8477.