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Crime
Woman Arrested For Dragging Deputy
Two Face Home Invasion, Kidnapping Charges
AMBER MARIE GRIFFIN
Deputies have located and arrested a woman accused of dragging a deputy. Her boyfriend was also charged in connection with the crime.
According to police, around 12:30 a.m., Saturday, Ms. Amber Marie Griffin, 29, was stopped by a deputy near the intersection of U. S. Highway 301 South and Tom Road, in Riverview. Ms. Griffin had an active war- rant for failure to appear.
Ms. Griffin reportedly refused to get out of her vehi- cle several times. When the deputy attempted to remove her from the vehicle, Ms. Griffin is alleged to have put the vehicle in gear and sped off with the deputy partially in the vehicle.
She reportedly dragged the deputy about twenty feet. The deputy suffered minor
BRIAN KEITH CHESSER
cuts to his hands. He was able to disengage from the vehicle and Ms. Griffin fled the scene, police said.
Ms. Griffin was located Sunday afternoon hiding at her boyfriend’s home in Gib- sonton.
Police said after Ms. Griffin was located, she fled on foot. She was taken into custody after short foot chase and with the help of K-9 deputies. She was not in- jured.
Ms. Griffin was charged with aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer with a deadly weapon, aggravated fleeing, and eluding and re- sisting arrest.
Her boyfriend, 57-year- old Brian Chesser, was also arrested and charged with as- sisting and harboring, police said.
Two young men have been arrested and a third is being sought by police. They are accused of committing a home invasion robbery and kidnapping.
The incident began about 9:05 p.m., Saturday, 27- year-old Dwayne Times, the victim, was inside his home at 104 Shoreview Lane, in Oldsmar, when he heard someone enter his home.
Times told police that three masked suspects, armed with handguns, con- fronted him inside the home and pistol whipped him sev- eral times. The men de- manded money and drugs, police said.
Times gave them money before they forced him into the back of his 2014 Volk- swagon. The men attempted to leave the neighborhood in the vehicle, but Times was able to open the door and jump out of the moving car. He fled on foot and started banging on doors to get help.
Residents at one location on Kilsythe Street heard him and let him inside, where he called 9-1-1. Deputies re- sponded to the scene and found Times’ Volkswagon abandoned near the inter- section of Kilsythe Street and
CHRISHAUD C. MONTGOMERY
Shore Drive, East, with the engine running. Deputies also found a handgun on the ground near the car.
Deputies and their K-9 Units tracked and located 17- year-old Chrishaud Mont- gomery. He was hiding in a residential pool behind a home on Country Club Drive.
Shortly afterwards, the K- 9 Units located 21-year-old Quadre Brown trying to get into a nearby home on Country Club Drive.
Deputies believe the third suspect fled the scene in a vehicle.
QUADRE K. BROWN
Times was transported to a local hospital for non- life threatening injuries.
Montgomery was ar- rested and transported to the Juvenile Assessment Center and charged with 1 count of home invasion robbery, and 1 count of kidnapping.
Brown was transported to the Pinellas County Jail and was charged with 1 count of home invasion rob- bery, 1 count kidnapping, and 1 count possession of marijuana.
The investigation is con- tinuing.
UNCLE SANDY
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