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Police reports
By Times staff reports Deputies arrest man who fled traffic stopSPRING HILL -- A Florida Highway Patrol trooper asked deputies for help Thursday after a car fled during a traffic stop. Deputies later found the man, who they said punched and spit on deputies trying to arrest him. Trooper G. Rodriguez tried to stop a car on Commercial Way about 4:40 p.m. but it fled northbound. The Sheriff's Office received information that the car was parked outside 7014 Nebula St. in Weeki Wachee and went to arrest the driver. Jason Arthur Rogers, 26, of 10358 Snowbird Ave. screamed at the trooper and tried to kick out her rear window after he was arrested, authorities said. A deputy dosed Rogers with pepper spray, and he screamed and banged his head on the cage inside the patrol car, authorities said. A deputy then tried to restrain Rogers, but he continued kicking, authorities said. The deputies hogtied Rogers, who spit on them, authorities said. Rogers was booked into the jail, where he banged on the cell windows, authorities said. Rogers was charged with assaulting an officer and resisting an officer with violence. He was being held Friday in lieu of $1,000 bail. Spring Hill teen charged in homemade bomb caseSPRING HILL -- Authorities arrested a 17-year-old who they said admitted making a batch of homemade bombs and tossing them on lawns in Spring Hill neighborhoods in November. Jason Reyes told detectives that he searched the Internet to learn how to make the bombs using toilet bowl cleaner. He and a friend threw six bottles on lawns near Leafy Way Avenue. On Nov. 17, one Spring Hill resident called deputies to report that a white vehicle had driven by his house and the occupants yelled at him. He said they threw a plastic bottle into his yard. He picked it up, realized it was a bomb and tossed it away. The bomb detonated a moment later, authorities said. Reyes told deputies that he did not know the man and that they tossed the bombs randomly. Two other residents reported bombs in their yards that night. Reyes was charged with four counts of discharging a destructive device. So far, his is the only arrest made in the case. Missing Brooksville man found, faces drug chargesBROOKSVILLE -- A 24-year-old Brooksville resident who authorities have been looking for since June on drug charges was arrested Friday. Sheriff's deputies arrested Damon Lee Hanks of 21313 Campbell Drive at 11:30 a.m. and charged him with possession of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia. Authorities said he tried to swallow a handful of pills -- possibly Xanax and Valium -- during the arrest, but deputies made him spit the pills onto the floor. Authorities have been looking for Hanks since June, when deputies responded to reports of a car accident in Brooksville and said they found Hanks unconscious in a smashed 1990 Ford Ranger. Deputies said Hanks awoke and tried to leave. Deputies made Hanks get out of the car, and he fought them, several times reaching toward his back pocket, authorities said. A deputy reached into Hanks' pocket and found a syringe and a plastic bag wrapped in a bloody paper towel. The syringe pricked the deputy in the left palm. He was tested and pronounced okay, authorities said. They took Hanks to the hospital for treatment of a possible head injury, and he escaped. Hanks was being held in the Hernando County Jail on Friday in lieu of $5,500 bail.
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