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A man and woman from Port Richey, Florida, were traveling in an SUV that was said to have been speeding up Interstate 75 near Forsyth. They were pulled over by a sheriff’s deputy there in the wee hours of Aug. 4. The couple’s Honda Pilot was allegedly doing 95 mph. When the deputy stopped it, he caught wind of an “overwhelming smell” of burned marijuana. The man in the car, who was a passenger, stepped out and the deputy found a small bag of weed and “a small bag of white crack-like substance” in his pocket. The deputy asked the...

PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — A New Port Richey man was arrested on a felony charge Saturday after authorities said he threw a hot dog at an officer who was warning him of violating a city ordinance, arrest documents said. Officers said Jason Stoll, 47, of New Port Richey ignored the warnings and continued to sell hot dogs in the roadway Saturday around 12 a.m. after his street closure permit ended. Stoll was asked to put the hot dog down but authorities said he continued his attempt to sell it.

The crater just keeps getting bigger. The big sink hole in Pasco County just keeps growing, expanding and collapsing. The depression in New Port Richey, Florida continues to expand at a rapid rate, very unusual for geologists. The hole opened on Monday at a few-feet deep but has grown to 50 – 75 feet deep and more than 30 feet wide! “The speed of it opening and the speed of it still spreading, that makes it unusual,” said Emergency Management Director Andrew Fossa. Nearby, The Varsity Club has been evacuated and shut down. County crews erected a fence around the...

This wasn’t supposed to happen! Black Lives Matter were having a perfectly fine protest against cops in Florida on Friday when several members of the local motorcycle club interrupted their march by revving their engines as they drove through the protest. Of course, the cop-hating BLM activists complained to the police and demanded they be arrested on noise charges. They hate cops until they need cops.

As a Pasco County Sheriff’s Deputy, Sean Kennedy spent 25-years following the law and enforcing it. Now he’s found himself in a position where he feels he must break the law. More specifically, a by-law for his community association. Kennedy lives with his wife and children in the Foxwood subdivision in New Port Richey. It’s a deed-restricted community where lawns are neatly mowed and cars are parked in garages. Over Kennedy’s garage flies a blue lives matter flag, the homeowners association recently told him he had to take it down. Kennedy lives with his wife and children in the Foxwood...

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. — A Pasco County deputy was shot overnight while responding to a call in New Port Richey that turned into an intense gun fight. Pasco deputy shot in leg overnight in New Port RicheyDeputy was responding to domestic violence callDeputy is expected to recover, suspect in custody According to authorities, the deputy responded to a home in the 7300 block of Humboldt Avenue just before 12:30 a.m. when several shots were fired. The deputy was shot in the leg and the suspect barricaded himself in the home.  The suspect, identified as 62-year-old Terrance J. Peterson, remained in...

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. — A New Port Richey man has been arrested on a first-degree murder charge 18 years after the homicide occurred. Officials with the New Port Richey Police Department said Randy Petersilge, 51, killed Simon Clark, 41, in 2001. No arrests were made, but police said they had investigated Petersilge as a suspect in the case. In 2017, New Port Richey detectives reopened the case and on Jan. 11, 2018, a grand jury indicted Petersilge on one count of first-degree murder. Petersilge was incarcerated in federal prison during the time of his indictment and a detainer was...

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. — A New Port Richey pizza maker was assaulted with his own product by an unhappy customer on Friday, according to the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies say Syeda Saleem, 28, of New Port Richey threw slices of pizza at a worker at Oliva’s Subs and Pizza when the worker refused to give her a refund. Saleem claimed the pizza she recently ordered made her child sick. According to arrested affidavits, the worker offered to make her a new pizza for free, but Saleem refused and insisted on receiving six sodas instead. When the worker refused...

NEW PORT RICHEY, FL (WFLA) - Deputies identified the suspects in the New Port Richey shooting that left multiple people dead. The suspects are still at large. Deputies are looking for Christopher Lee Duncan, 26, and Dora Delgado, 38. They are the prime suspects in this investigation. They are considered armed and dangerous. They may be driving a blue Ford SUV with a FL tag CDAA98. snip Pasco deputies say they received a report of shots fired at 4:54 a.m. in the area of Banbury Avenue and Adler Street in Moon Lake. When deputies arrived, they found multiple bodies inside...