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🌱 Patch AM: Holiday Woman Charged With Carjacking: Pasco County Sheriff

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In today's newsletter:

  • Pasco deputies say carjacking suspect targeted shoppers in New Port Richey

Also on today's calendar: 7th AnnualTarpon Springs Sponge Docks Craft Festival and 9 more events.

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  • Monday: Partly sunny and less humid, with a high of 69 and low of 53 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Holiday Woman Charged With Carjacking: Pasco County Sheriff (patch.com) — A Holiday woman is accused of carjacking an SUV at gunpoint, then driving it to a Dollar General on State Road 54 in New Port Richey, where deputies say she tried to carjack a second vehicle. The New Port Richey victim fought back, got her daughter to safety, and the suspect was later stopped and arrested nearby, according to the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office.
   

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