New Arrest in Holiday Home Invasion

Another arrest has been made in connection to a July home invasion robbery in Holiday in which the victim was beaten with a crowbar.

Dustin Keith Grooms of 12930 Kellywood Circle in Hudson was arrested by Pasco County Sheriff’s deputies on Friday in the Bayonet Point/Port Richey area and charged with home invasion robbery.

According to a sheriff's office report, two masked suspects broke into a home on the 4500 block of Flora Avenue in Holiday at 1:40 a.m. July 10, 2011. They got in through a window on the back door and entered a bedroom where a man was sleeping.  

The man woke up, and his hands were bound behind his back with tape. One suspect beat the man on the head and torso with a crowbar, and the other opened the man’s safe.

More than $20,000 worth of items were taken, including jewelry, guns, a collection of $2 bills and a European coin collection. The beaten man was taken to a hospital.

Over the course of the investigation, authorities received an anonymous tip that David Hodierne, who was on probation, had committed a home invasion robbery in Holiday and had the stolen items in a safe in his living room.

Grooms was arrested May 18 and booked into Land O’ Lakes Jail in lieu of $150,000 bail. He has also been arrested in the past for strong-arm robbery and other offenses. Hodierne, 26, of 7414 Ingleside Drive in Port Richey was already in the Land O' Lakes jail on a different charge when he was arrested in April and charged with home invasion robbery with a weapon.