MANATEE — A woman was arrested Sunday and charged with hitting her boyfriend in the face with a bottle of gin.
According to a Manatee County Sheriff’s Office report, Keira Poag and her boyfriend got into an argument at about 8:40 p.m. Sunday outside a home in the 2900 block of 13th Street Court East.
During the argument, Poag struck the man with the bottle, causing a deep, 3-inch cut to the left side of his chin.
A friend of the man said Poag, 33, told him she caused the injury, saying it was an accident.
While being arrested Poag told the sheriff’s deputies the injury, “helped fix his face.”
She was charged with aggravated domestic battery using a deadly weapon and was being held in the Manatee County jail on $10,000 bond.
Three held in armed robbery
MANATEE — Three people were arrested Friday and charged with planning and committing an armed robbery.
According to a Manatee County Sheriff’s Office report, Krystal Hartley, of 501 37th Ave. Drive E., told two women she planned an armed robbery with her brother, Stephen Hartley, of 5004 21st St. W., and Januel Ruiz, of 610 60th Ave. Terrace W.
The plan was that Krystal Hartley, 18, would lure the two male victims to her home.
After getting the victims into the house, she left and told Stephen Hartley, 21, and Ruiz, 19, to enter the home and threaten the men with a fake gun.
Stephen Hartley and Ruiz confronted the two men — Hartley holding the fake gun and Ruiz wielding a steak knife — and took their wallets that contained $151 and $658, according to the report. The two suspects then punched the victims in the face with their fists, the report states.
Two witnesses heard Krystal Hartley talk about meeting the two male suspects in a car down the street and called the sheriff’s office.
When Stephen Hartley and Ruiz ran away from the robbery scene toward the get-away car they saw the sheriff’s deputies’ patrol cars and ran in the opposite direction.
Ruiz was arrested after a 100-yard foot chase with the two wallets and cash in his pockets, authorities said.
Stephen Hartley was found hiding crouched behind a trailer next door to the scene of the robbery.
All three were taken to Manatee County jail.
Krystal Hartley was being held on a $108,000 bond and charged with conspiracy to commit an armed robbery, and two counts of armed robbery.
Stephen Hartley was being held on a $108,750 bond and charged with conspiracy to commit an armed robbery, two counts of armed robbery and resisting arrest without violence.
Ruiz was being held on a $133,750 bond and charged with conspiracy to commit an armed robbery, two counts of armed robbery, one count of armed robbery with a deadly weapon and resisting arrest without violence.
He also was being held on a $75,000 bond on an outstanding arrest warrant for another robbery charge.
— Carl Mario Nudi
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