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CCSO needs help identifying female armed bank robber

Around 5:00 pm, Tuesday afternoon, March 24, the Citrus Coun-

Jordan Debra Gazaway, 29, 3510 E. Foxwood Ct., Inverness, was arrested by the

ty Sheriff's Office responded to the Brannen Bank in Floral City

Citrus County Sheriff's Office, March 23, charged with possesion of a controlled substance

where an armed robbery had just occurred. Just before 4:00 pm,

and possession of drug parphernalia; her total bond was set at $3,000. Her arrest affidavit

the female entered the bank and spoke to employees about opening

stated that her arrest came as the result of a traffic stop for failing to stop at a stop sign.

an account. When she was notified that the bank was closing, she

Gazaway was a passenger in the vehicle. She was in possession of two "dime bags" of

showed a firearm and placed the employees in the vault. She took an

methamphetamine, along with a three-inch-long section of straw, the report stated. Another

undisclosed amount of cash, walked out of the bank and drove off

passenger in the car, James R. Pixley, 28, Orlando, was arrested on a writ of bodily attach-

in a tan Chrysler minivan with tinted windows and a Florida license

ment for failure to pay child support; his bond was set at $1,160.

plate. The suspect is a white female approximately 5ft 4 to 5ft 6 in height, weighing 160-170

James Neal Pike, 50, Crystal River, was arrested by the Citrus County Sheriff's Of- pounds and wearing a dark purple dress and a dark colored wig.

fice, March 24, charged with a capital felony (familial/custodial sexual battery of a person

Truck crash Kills Homosassa Man

under the age of 18).

A Homosassa man was killed Sunday afternoon, March 29, when hit by a vehicle.

Tonya Lay Cason, 37, Homosassa, was arrested by the Citrus County Sheriff's

Office, March 24, charged with felony traffic or endavor to traffic in stolen property and According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the incident ocurred at 4421 W. Donali Ct. at 2:00

grand theft; her total bond was set at $7,000. Cason is charged with taking four Bostitch nail pm when 62 year-old Richard Leroy Hinde left his residence and drove a 1998 Chevrolet

guns and one Dremel tool from a shed at a S. Alita, Homosassa, residence and pawning the C1500 pickup truck, approximately 100 feet to his closed gate. Mr. Hinde got out of the

items at ABC Pawn and Jewelry in Homosassa. The items were reported as stolen on March vehicle to open the gate, leaving the vehicle in gear. The vehicle began to travel south, until

19. The report stated that Cason denied knowing that two friends had taken the items while it collided with a tree and Mr. Hinde. Mr. Hinde sustained fatal injuries and expired at the

she was also at the property, and she had gone with them, twice, to the pawn shop, but had scene.

stayed in the vehicle. She said she knew it looked bad, but she knew nothing about the theft. Inverness man killed in motorcycle crash

Sixty-nine year-old Roger P. Douchette, of Inverness, died as the result of a mo-

The friends said Cason had not pawned the items because she didn't have an ID card. She

torcycle crash, March 25. According to Homosassa, Florida 34446 Douchette was

5093 S. Orwell Pt., the Florida Highway Patrol, Mr.

acknowledged it was true that she had no ID card.

Leo M. Stoddard, 37, 6619 W. Constitution Ln., Homosassa, was arrested by the driving a 1972 Honda motorcycle, traveling west in Inverness on State Road 44, negotiating

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Emai , Tom Russell, a right turn, east of Paradise Point, when he lost control of the motorcycle which departed

Citrus County Sheriff's Office, March 24, charged with false verificationlof ownership to aPublisher: thenewscaster1@gmail.comIEmail, Debbie Russell, Editor: debbienewsc

pawnbroker. Stoddard is accused of pawning numerous hand tools to ABC bsites: thenewscaster.com · newscasterarchives.comthen collided with a guardrail. Mr. Douchette

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erly in Homosassa, in exchange for $140. The tools were reported as stolen from a S. Alita, was ejected from the motorcycle onto the shoulder. The motorcycle came to rest in the in-

Homosassa Ter., Homosassa, shed. Stoddard said he'd pawned the tools for another person side lane of State Rd. 44. Mr.Douchette was transported to Ocala Regional Medical Center

who said he/she had permission to pawn the items. However, on the two pawn slips, he'd where he died, later the same day, from injuries sustained in the crash. The report stated that

signed that the items were his. Stoddard was released on his own recognizance due to his Mr. Douchette was not wearing a helmet.

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Anthony John Selvester, 52, Beverly Hills, was arrested by the Citrus County Sher-

iff's Office, March 25, charged with felony aggravated assault with a deadly weapon with-

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out intent to kill. His bond was set at none.

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Paula Jeanette Collier, 31, 6920 N. Bighorn Pt., Hernando, was arrested by the

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Citrus County Sheriff's Office, March 25, charged with felony battery (commit battery with

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one prior conviction for battery); her bond was set at $2,000. The incident occurred at a N.

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Capri Loop, Hernando, residence. Collier is accused of entering the victim's closed gate

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without an invitation, yelling about the victim yelling at a relative earlier in the day, then

grabbing the woman by the hair, punching her on the face then pushing the door closed on

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the victim's foot when the victim attempted to enter her residence. Collier denied slamming

the door closed on the victim's foot. The report stated that the victim's foot was red and

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An 18 year-old Hernando youth was arrested by the Sheriff's Office on a felony

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charge, March 25, charged with grand theft ($5,000 or more, but less than $10,000) and

burglary of an unoccupied conveyance (airplane). The report stated that a theft had occurred

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during the night of March 23 and 24 (Monday night and Tuesday morning) from the airplane

that had crashed into the back yard of an Inverness residence located at 745 Carnegie Dr. on

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Monday afternoon. The CCSO investigator reported that the scene was left "as is," pending

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the arrival of the FAA investigator the following day, March 24. Personal property of the

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pilot was left inside. When the detective arrived the following day, a duffel bag and other

 scattered planewere  A was broken during the crash,

items   inside the  missing.  privacy fence

 andthe investigator  afresh  leading through some high grass toward the resi-

     noted   trail

dence.   theinvestigation led to a Hernando juvenile who admitted that

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he  enteredtheplanetaken theitems, he would find them if

 and another juvenile had     and    and 

allowed the time. However, the items were not recovered and the juvenile was arrested. Due

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to his cooperation, the juvenile was released on his own recognizance. No further mention

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was made of the other juvenile.

Elishia Jeanette Key, 26, 4190 S. Spanish Trail, Inverness, was arrested by the

Citrus County Sheriffs Office, March 25, charged with possession of a controlled substance.

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Her bond was set at $2,000. Key is charged with being in possession of one hydromorphone

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8 mg. pill (a Schedule II narcotic) during a traffic stop in Inverness, in which she was the

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driver. A K-9 alerted to the presence of narcotics, and the pill was found. The report stated

that a license check was made on Key, as the only reason mentioned on the report, for the

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