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Woman accused of throwing rock through window
By MELANIE AVE © St. Petersburg Times, published February 25, 2001 Xochitl Lourdes Frank, 36, was arrested about 11:30 a.m. Thursday by Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies at her home, 14643 Village Glen Circle. Joseph McCarthy, who lives about a mile from Frank in Carrollwood Village, said he caught a woman peering into a window on the side of his house about 9:30 a.m. Thursday. "She was leaning on it," said McCarthy, a 57-year-old who uses a wheelchair. "I asked her what she was doing there. She said she was looking for a friend. I told her nobody else was there except me. So I asked her to please leave. "She said a couple of nasties and left. When she was supposedly going to the front, I decided to call the sheriff." McCarthy said he called the Sheriff's Office because he was alarmed by the woman's attitude. After he hung up the phone, he said he saw the woman fling a large rock through his front window, shattering the glass. Hillsborough sheriff's spokeswoman Debbie Carter said Frank hit, slapped and tried to bite a deputy who questioned her about the incident. Frank was charged with throwing a deadly missile and resisting arrest. She was released from the Orient Road Jail on $10,500 bond Thursday evening. Thursday's incident wasn't the first for Frank. Since 1996, neighbors in Carrollwood Village have accused Frank of scratching cars, stealing Christmas lights, setting trees on fire and provoking fistfights. Some have gotten so fed up with the vandalism and thefts that they have moved out of the neighborhood. In September, Frank pleaded not guilty to three felony charges of robbery, burglary and battery on a law enforcement officer. She was accused of burglarizing the doctor's office where her husband, physician Dr. Pier Frank, used to work and trying to steal $369 worth of cosmetics from Albertsons. In 1999, she pleaded no contest to aggravated assault on an undercover law enforcement officer, who said she tried to run over her in a car. In 1996, Frank was placed on probation for a violent confrontation with two former neighbors. And in 1994, she was charged with aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer. She pleaded guilty. On Thursday, McCarthy said the deputies seemed very happy to hear that he was willing to press charges, and they "seemed to know exactly where to find her." One day after the vandalism, McCarthy said he's not sure what to make of the incident or of Frank. "I don't know her," he said. "I think she might be a little troubled." - Information from Times files was used in this report. Melanie Ave can be reached at (813) 226-3473 or melanie@sptimes.com.
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