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Release Number: 09-210

For Immediate Release

Public Information Office

July 28, 2009

Debbie Carter: dcarter@hcso.tampa.fl.us

(813) 247-8060

 

 

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Suspects:

Driver:  Joshua Hobdy,  DOB 2-24-88

              5211 – 84 Street, Tampa

              Charges:  Grand Theft/ Firearm  -2 counts

                                Grand Theft

                                Armed Burglary of a residence

                                Possession of burglary tools

                               Criminal Mischief

                               Aggravated Fleeing and Eluding

                               No Valid Drivers License

                               Aggravated Assault on a Law Enforcement Officer

                               Resist arrest without violence

 

Christopher Fruster, DOB 2-2-95

11512 White Cottage Drive, Tampa

Charges:  Armed Burglary

                  Grand Theft

                  Grand Theft/Firearm – 2 counts

 

Mikel Jones, DOB 10-19-91

8503 April Sound Court, Tampa

Charges:  Armed Burglary

                  Grand Theft

                  Grand Theft/Firearm – 2 counts

 

Genisha Thompson , DOB 12-30-93

1004 E. Sligh Avenue, Tampa

Charges:  Armed Burglary

                  Grand Theft

                  Grand Theft/Firearm -  2 counts
What:

Residential burglary with arrests
When:

July 28, 2009 at 11:04 a.m.
Where:

7305 Fountain Avenue, Tampa
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This morning at approximately 11:00 a.m., deputies were dispatched to a residential burglary in progress.  A neighbor called stating that they observed the suspects break a bedroom window at the Fountain Avenue address and enter the residence.  Deputies responded and observed the vehicle fleeing the area.  Marked units along with an unmarked Sheriff’s Office vehicle pursued the suspect vehicle.  The driver (Joshua Hobdy) sideswiped the unmarked vehicle.  There were no injuries.  During the pursuit in the Twelve Oaks subdivision, five of the six suspects bailed out of the vehicle.  The pursuit ended at Henderson Road and Linebaugh when the suspect vehicle left the roadway and crashed into a telephone pole.  The driver fled on foot from the scene and was apprehended by deputies.

 

Deputies apprehended three of the suspects (Fruster, Jones and Thompson) in the area of Kirkwood and Greenshire Drive within the Twelve Oaks subdivision.

 

There are two male suspects still at large.