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Police reports
By Times staff reports Man charged with beating boy, 8, for soiling his pantsZEPHYRHILLS -- Pasco County sheriff's deputies on Thursday arrested a Zephyrhills man they say beat an 8-year-old boy who went to the bathroom in his pants. Deputies said William Alfred Anderson, 28, of 4412 Seaberg Road beat the boy with a 2-foot-long graphite rod. The boy suffered severe bruising on the back of his legs, above the knees. Anderson faces charges of child abuse. He was taken to the Land O'Lakes jail, where he remained Friday in lieu of $10,000 bail. Surgical mask bandit may be in custodyPasco County Sheriff's Office officials think they have arrested the surgical mask bandit. Friday evening, Sheriff Bob White said two men were under arrest facing charges connected to three bank robberies in west Pasco County. At 4:50 p.m. Friday a witness called the Sheriff's Office saying there was a suspicious person outside of SouthTrust bank branch near Jasmine Boulevard and U.S. 19. A sheriff's sergeant went to the bank and two men fled in a car. One of them was arrested after the two men bailed out of the car on a nearby side street. The other man stole a car and fled. Dozens of sheriff's deputies flooded the area and were able to track him to a shed behind a house. He surrendered to deputies there. "Our folks worked flawlessly together," Sheriff White said. Sheriff's deputies were not releasing the name of either of the men Friday evening, because they had not yet been charged. Guests report money stolen from hotel roomsPORT RICHEY -- Two men told Pasco sheriff's deputies on Thursday that money was stolen from their rooms at a Travel Lodge. Sheriff's officials did not release the amount of money stolen from the hotel, 11736 U.S. 19. One man said his money was in the room's safe, according to deputy reports. He said it was taken Thursday between 8:30 a.m. and 10:30 p.m. The other man said his cash was in an envelope on top of the microwave, the reports stated. He said it went missing between Tuesday at 3 p.m. and Thursday at 9 p.m. One room had signs of forced entry, the other didn't, deputies said. Attorneys say murder case moving toward trialDADE CITY -- The case against two men accused in the 1997 murder and rape of a 9-year-old girl is moving ahead, with a defense attorney predicting a crucial part of the work could be complete by March. Both suspects, Gary Elishi Cochran, 35, and Gary Steven Cannon, 21, are charged with first degree murder in the October 1997 attack on Sharra Ferger in her Blanton neighborhood. Cochran was the girl's uncle; Cannon, a family friend. Appointed defense attorney Sam Williams told Circuit Judge Maynard Swanson on Friday that depositions -- where attorneys question witnesses expected to testify at trial -- should be finished by March, allowing the case to move toward trial. In addition to a list of witnesses, including sheriff's deputies, state agents and people the two suspects met in jail, the case also involves DNA test results and thousands of pages of information. Cochran and Cannon were both in court but did not speak publicly Friday. The two were returned to the Pasco County jail after the hearing and are scheduled to be returned to state prisons where they are serving sentences on unrelated crimes.
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