Woman Pulled Over With Drugs, Juveniles In Car

Erin Huggins
Erin Huggins

By Matt Wiley,

A Lithia woman is in custody, after deputies discovered pot, pills and juveniles in her vehicle when she was pulled over in Wesley Chapel.

According to the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO), Erin Huggins, 21, of Lithia, was driving her sister’s gold 1997 Buick coupe east on S.R. 54 around 1:23 a.m. on November 25 When she approached the Morris Bridge Rd. intersection, she turned right from the center lane into the former Cumberland Farms gas station (located at the southwest corner of the intersection) and continued onto Morris Bridge Rd. without stopping.

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Fur Flies In Domestic Dispute

By Matt Wiley

An argument about attending a wine tasting turned ugly in Wesley Chapel, after a married couple’s verbal altercation turned physical.

According to the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO), just after 2 p.m. on November 24, Jeanette Kadala, 59, and her husband, Robert Stewart, 61, both of the Bridgewater community off Wells Rd. in Wesley Chapel, were embroiled in an argument about attending a “wine tasting” event. Stewart did not want to attend.

Kadala told deputies that Stewart began yelling at her and calling her obscenities, before picking up the couple’s dog by the harness and threatening to take it to the pound. Kadala indicated that Stewart was choking the dog because of how he was holding it and added that she attempted to take the dog away from Stewart, but he threw it at her. She says that he then cornered her against a wall and dared her to strike him. Kadala said she was able to get away, but was shoved into a chair, which knocked over an end table.

In an interview with deputies, Stewart said that he never pushed his wife and that she actually pushed him. He also stated that he picked up the dog by the harness to put it into a cage to keep it from defecating on the floor, but never choked the animal.

Stewart was arrested on domestic battery charges and taken to the Land O’ Lakes Detention Center without incident.

However, the PCSO arrest report states that during the booking process, Stewart became aggressive and had to be placed in an arm-bar hold. Stewart was later released on a $500 bond.

Pasco BOCC Votes To Continue To Study S.R. 54/56 Elevated Road Possibility

Artist’s rendering of the future Gandy Connector shown at the Dec. 3 Pasco BOCC meeting. Photo: Hillsborough County MPO
Artist’s rendering of the future Gandy Connector shown at the Dec. 3 Pasco BOCC meeting. Photo: Hillsborough County MPO

By Matt Wiley

After receiving unanimous approval from the Pasco Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) on Dec. 3, the county will continue to study whether or not an elevated toll road that would connect eastern and western Pasco County can help solve one of the county’s biggest traffic issues. The BOCC voted unanimously to approve a resolution to continue to consider the possibility of an elevated toll way that would connect New Port Richey at U.S. 19 to Wesley Chapel at Bruce B. Downs (BBD) Blvd. by expanding the S.R. 54/S.R. 56 corridor.

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PHCC Porter Campus To Open As Pasco Hernando State College

Pasco Hernando Community College Porter Campus at Wiregrass Ranch, opening Jan. 13 as Pasco Hernando State College.
Pasco Hernando Community College Porter Campus at Wiregrass Ranch, opening Jan. 13 as Pasco Hernando State College.

By Gary Nager

Even though, at our press time, the new Pasco Hernando Community College (PHCC) Porter Campus at Wiregrass Ranch (located on Mansfield Blvd. at S.R. 56), still looked like more of a construction site than a college campus, PHCC Porter Campus Provost Stanley M. Giannet, Ph.D., said that school officials were expecting to receive the Certificate of Occupancy for the newest of Florida’s 29 two-year college campuses on Dec. 10, with the building actually opening on Jan. 2 and classes for the Spring 2014 semester set to begin on Mon., Jan. 13.Continue reading