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Paper trail leads to robbery suspectBy RYAN DAVIS © St. Petersburg Times, published September 13, 2000 TRILBY -- Nicholas Gerard Grant's paper trail was his downfall. The husband of a woman who was robbed Monday at gunpoint in the Trilby Post Office parking lot said he caught Grant by following a trail of mail and other papers strewn from his wife's purse. "He's not too bright," Steve Ashmore said. Grant, 18, of Trilby Road was arrested Monday and charged with the armed robbery of Diann Ashmore as she put her 3-year-old daughter into a car seat outside the post office, deputies said. Deputies said the Moore Mickens Education Center student held a gun to Ashmore's head about 2:30 p.m. Monday. A 15-year-old Pasco High School student accused of accompanyingGrant in the robbery was also arrested and charged with armed robbery, deputies said. He was taken to the Pasco Juvenile Detention Center. Steve Ashmore, acting on an eyewitness tip, said he followed a trail of papers for about 300 yards through the woods. In a back yard, he said he found a letter from the couple's pastor at Landmark Baptist Church in Brooksville. He peeked around the corner of the house and saw a group of men on the driveway. One of the men fit his wife's description of the robber, Ashmore said. So he headed back to the post office to find a deputy. "I said, "Hey, go get him,' " Ashmore recounted to a Times reporter Tuesday. Grant was being held Tuesday at county jail in Land O'Lakes on $30,000 bail. Gas station employee robbed at gunpointLAND O'LAKES -- A Roadrunner Gas Station employee was robbed at gunpoint Monday afternoon as he left the station with a bag of money and checks, Pasco County sheriff's deputies said. The man told deputies he left the 4109 Land O'Lakes Blvd. building carrying a black nylon bag about 2 p.m. on his way to make a bank deposit. As he reached for the door of his car, a man put a semiautomatic handgun to his head, demanded the money and said, "You move or say a word, I'll blow your brains out," according to deputies. The employee gave the man the bag and the robber fled in a white Ford Mustang driven by an accomplice, deputies said. The victim told deputies he activated the station's automatic alarm and had a cashier call 911, deputies said. Another employee drove south on Land O'Lakes Boulevard in an attempt to find the Mustang but did not locate it, deputies said.
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