April 21, 2021
For the third time in a month, an eight-time convicted felon from Molino has been arrested on multiple drug trafficking charges.
Damion Tobias Bryant, 39, was free on bonds totaling nearly a half-million dollars when arrested Monday by the Pensacola Police Department for trafficking methamphetamine over 14 grams, trafficking fentanyl, possession of a controlled substance without a prescription, possession of drug paraphernalia and driving with a suspended license.
This time, Bryant is being held in the Escambia County Jail without bond.
“He is charged with a large number of very serious crimes,” Assistant State Attorney Greg Marcille said. “If convicted on the more serious charges (trafficking), the least he would looking at is a minimum of 25 years to be served day by day.”
Hostage Standoff At Westchase Hotel Ends Peacefully: Sheriff - Tampa, FL - A standoff between the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office and an armed man barricaded with two family members in a hotel ended peacefully.
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A Lexington man was arrested in Tampa Bay, Florida on Monday after allegedly holding a woman and a two-year-old baby hostage at a hotel during an eight-hour standoff with police.
Victor Hernandez, 53, of Lexington is being held without bail at the Hillsborough County Jail in Florida on two counts of felony armed false imprisonment.
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According to information provided by the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, at 11:14 p.m. on Sunday, 911 communications received a phone call in reference to a subject who was barricaded with two family members inside a room at the Suburban Extended Stay Hotel in Tampa Bay.
Deputies respond to report of armed man barricaded in Tampa hotel
Hillsborough Avenue between Hanley and Sawyer roads was shut down in both directions because of the incdent at the Suburban Extended Stay Hotel.
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The SWAT Team and crisis negotiators from the Hillsborough County Sheriff s Office responded to a report of an armed man barricaded inside a room at a hotel on West Hillsborough Avenue. [ Spectrum Bay News 9 ]
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TAMPA â Guests were evacuated from a Tampa motel and roads were closed to traffic as deputies responded to a report that a man had barricaded himself inside a room there.