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Around 10:00 am on Tuesday, April 12, deputies with the Citrus County Sheriff's

Office responded to a burglary at a Lecanto residence located at 1549 W. Crooked Branch

The victim, who was inside of his home at the time, told deputies

that the suspect, later identified as 47 year-old James L. Jones of Crystal

River, parked his older model green Chevrolet Stepside truck on the road in

front of his residence and walked up to the front door. The victim stated that

Jones rang the doorbell and knocked on the front door. When he received no

answer, the victim stated, Jones walked to the back yard and opened a small

shed that containing several motorcycles and armed himself with a shotgun.

The homeowner said he went to his back yard through the back door and twice

discharged his shotgun, pointing it away from Jones, in an attempt to persuade him to stop

and surrender. Instead, Jones came at the homeowner and fought with him over the shotgun.

Jones gained control of the shotgun, hit the homeowner with it, then walked to his pickup

truck and fled the scene. The victim sustained minor injuries and was treated on the scene

by emergency medical services.

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Deputies issued a BOLO (Be On the LookOut) for Jones and his vehicle, with a

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description of Jones and the truck. Jones was described as a white male in his 50s or 60s,

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with salt and peppershort cut, wearing a dark shirt. The victim said

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that Jones left the area heading east on W. Live Oak St. (Lecanto). A detective who heard the

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description the suspecthisvehicle, suspect as potentially Jones, due to This week's featured photo is of John Partain,Sonny Pierce and Dave Sicard with 5 Reds caught

 of  and   recognized the

a previous encounter with him. Jones was taken into custody, without incident, at the Crystal last weekend in all that wind. They used live shrimp in Lowes Bay.

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River Hotel, located at 1151 NW Hwy. 19 in Crystal River. Jones was no longer armed with Red drum bag limit lowered to 1 in northwest Florida starting May 1

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the shotgun,but provided     where the victim gun  located. 

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At its April 13 meeting in Jupiter, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Com-

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information, deputies

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mission (FWC) approved a measure to lower the recreational red drum daily bag limit in the

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Jones was charged with robbery where offender carried no weapon and becoming northwest red drum management zone (Escambia County through Fred Howard Park near

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armed with an explosive or other dangerous weapon during a burglary. He was held without Pasco County) from two fish to one fish per person.

This change will go into effect Sunday, May 1. The daily bag limit is also one in the

Detectives are attempting to determine if Jones is connected to the series of bur- southwest management zone, which means changeisbag

after this   effective, the daily  limit

glaries that have occurred in Citrus and surrounding counties. He is being interviewed about will be one red drum per person, per day in all Gulf ofMexico state   

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