Police reports

By Times staff reports

© St. Petersburg Times, published March 28, 2001

Theft suspect charged with punching deputy

DADE CITY -- A 35-year-old man was arrested after he ran from Pasco County sheriff's deputies and then punched a deputy who was trying to arrest him, authorities said.

Fredrick Leonard Bradberryc, of 14909 Citrus Villas, Apt. 20, was approached by deputies on bicycles who knew that he had active Pasco County warrants for petty theft.

When the deputies tried to arrest him, Bradberry ran away. One deputy finally caught Bradberry and grabbed him by the shirt, but Bradberry punched him in the chin, a report stated.

It took two deputies to pin Bradberry to the ground and handcuff him.

Afterward, deputies searched him and found a crack pipe and a razor blade in his possession.

Deputies charged Bradberry with battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest with violence, two counts of resisting arrest without violence, possession of cocaine and possession of drug paraphernalia.

He also was charged on the two outstanding petty theft warrants.

Bradberry was taken to county jail in Land O'Lakes, where he remained Tuesday night in lieu of $4,050 bail.

Deputies say enraged man kicked out patrol car window

PORT RICHEY -- A Spring Hill man went into a rage in the back of a patrol car after he was arrested Monday, kicking out a window and fighting with officers before he was subdued with pepper spray, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office reported.

Leo J. Salvato, 29, of 1256 Maximilian Ave. was charged with battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest with violence, criminal mischief and driving on a suspended license.

According to reports, authorities encountered Salvato on Old Post Road while investigating a disturbance just after 3 a.m. Officers put him in the back of a patrol car, but he managed to reach under the seat and and rip a radar speed detector out of the cigarette lighter.

Sheriff's deputies, along with officers from the New Port Richey and Port Richey police departments, pulled Salvato out of the car and handcuffed him. They put him back in the car, and he started kicking and screaming and ramming his head against the grated metal divider.

As he was being read his rights, Salvato kicked out the passenger side rear window, reports said.

Authorities sprayed him with pepper gas and put a restraining device around his legs, and Salvato responded by spitting on the officers and kicking them, reports said. He was still spitting on officers at Community Hospital of New Port Richey, where he was taken to be medically cleared.

Salvato was held at the county jail in Land O'Lakes Tuesday in lieu of $3,100 bail.

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