Spring Hill man charged in knife attack Friday

By Times staff writer

© St. Petersburg Times, published June 17, 2000

HUDSON -- A Spring Hill man was charged with aggravated assault on Friday. Deputies say he went to a Hudson man's house and attacked him with a knife, then fled.

Anthony Thomas Scarduzio had made a deal, Michael Furey told deputies: Scarduzio gave Furey a portable generator in exchange for Furey's promise to install an aluminum roof at Scarduzio's house. Furey had not yet installed the roof.

According to deputies, Scarduzio came to Furey's front door around 10:15 p.m. and began to argue with Furey about the roof. He pulled out a red pocketknife and swung it toward Furey's face. The two began to wrestle.

Then, Furey told deputies, a woman ran up to the porch and said: "It's not worth it. Let's get out of here." Scarduzio and the woman ran away, and Furey told deputies he heard tires squealing but did not see a getaway car.

Deputies arrested Scarduzio at his house at 2:14 a.m. Friday. He was being held at the Land O'Lakes jail on $10,000 bail.

Man charged with domestic battery

PORT RICHEY -- A man who is accused of striking his wife with a hamburger on Wednesday was charged with simple domestic battery.

Heather Press told deputies that she and her husband, 34-year-old Benjamin Press, were driving home from Home Depot when they began to argue. She said her husband hit her face with a hamburger. Deputies observed condiments in her hair and on her face.

Ben Press did not confess and told deputies his wife had slapped him, "causing the hamburger to get on his wife."

He was booked at the Land O'Lakes jail and posted $1,000 bail.

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