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Man charged with shooting out car tire

By Times staff writers

© St. Petersburg Times, published January 18, 2001


PORT RICHEY -- A 21-year-old man was charged Tuesday with aggravated assault after Pasco County Sheriff's deputies said he pointed a handgun at another man and fired a round into the man's car tire.

Stephen Patrick Dulin of 12518 Havanna Drive, New Port Richey, confronted Alan Zitzman in the parking lot of the Laundry Planet at 10453 U.S. 19 at 11 p.m. Monday night, deputies said. Zitzman is dating Dulin's ex-girlfriend, authorities said.

Zitzman, his girlfriend and another woman were in the laundry parking lot when Dulin drove up and started an argument, deputies said. Zitzman got out of his car and pointed a handgun at Zitzman, deputies said.

Zitzman told officials that as he turned to run, the gun went off and a bullet struck the tire.

When deputies arrested Dulin, they discovered that he had three warrants for violating his probation.

Dulin was being held Wednesday at the county jail in Land O'Lakes without bail.

Police charge woman with assaulting 6-year-old

PORT RICHEY -- Pasco County Sheriff's deputies have arrested a woman who they said threw a baby bottle filled with milk at a 6-year-old girl last week, hitting her in the face.

On Jan. 9, deputies said Angela Cordes, 24, of 6714 Date Palm Blvd., threw the bottle at the girl because she was crying and Cordes "just couldn't take it anymore," a deputy wrote in a report.

The girl suffered swelling around her right eye and cuts on her nose, authorities said. They would not disclose the relationship between Cordes and the girl.

Deputies charged Cordes with child abuse on Tuesday. She was booked into the Land O'Lakes jail and released Wednesday on $5,000 bail.

Deputies say minivan driver talked to child

SHADY HILLS -- A 7-year-old boy told his mother and Pasco County Sheriff's deputies that a man in a blue minivan approached him as he walked home from the bus stop on Tuesday afternoon.

The boy said he was walking on Elmont Avenue at about 4 p.m. when a man in a blue van pulled up and asked him whether he was scared of some dogs that were on the street. The man also asked the boy his name.

The man did not ask the boy to get in his minivan. A neighbor who knew the boy saw them talking, and approached the man.

The driver of the minivan told the neighbor that he wouldn't bother anyone on the street anymore.

Deputies were unable to find the driver of the minivan.

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