Pair arrested at Florida Publix after planned shoplifting turns into violent confrontation
Belleview FL May 14 2018
What started as a possible shoplifting incident in Belleview quickly turned violent Monday afternoon.
Anthony Charles Orosco, 21, of Dunnellon, was arrested after battling with a Marion County sheriff’s deputy as his girlfriend, Shellby Lynne Hunley, sat handcuffed in the backseat of Belleview police vehicle.
Orosco got into the confrontation with the deputy who was assisting Belleview police at the Publix supermarket at 10135 S. U.S. Hwy. 27/441, a sheriff’s office report states.
After Hunley, 21, was taken into custody, she told the deputy that she drove to the store with Orosco, who was located in the parking lot a short time later.
The deputy originally planned to let Orosco take possession of Hunley’s blue Honda Accord. But during an attempt to verify that Orosco had a valid driver’s license, he climbed from the passenger seat of the Accord, opened the rear door and started to pull out a large duffel bag.
Orosco ignored a command to leave the duffel bag inside the car, the report says, adding that the deputy smelled a strong odor of marijuana coming from inside the vehicle.
A struggle broke out as the deputy tried to stop Orosco from removing the duffel bag from the car. Orosco struck the deputy in the left shoulder with his right elbow and pushed him before fleeing on foot, the report says.
A Belleview police officer apprehended Orosco and he was brought back to the Publix parking lot.
When the deputy searched Orosco, he found 9 mm ammunition and a small baggie of marijuana in his wallet. Officers searching the duffel bag found a 9 mm semi-automatic firearm and ammunition, a large bag of marijuana weighing more than 20 grams, a large baggie containing more than 20 grams of a crushed brownie mix that field tested positive for marijuana, five and a half Alprazolam pills, eight Adderall XR pills and two Quetiapine Fumarate pills, the report states, adding that the prescription-controlled drugs weren’t in proper containers.
Orosco was booked into the Marion County Jail on a weapons charge (use, display, etc., of a firearm during a felony), battery on an officer, resisting arrest with violence, three counts of possession of controlled substances without prescriptions and one count of possession of marijuana over 20 grams. He was held on $19,000 bond.
Hunley was arrested by Belleview police and transported to the Marion County Jail on a charge of petit theft, two counts of possession of a controlled substance and one count of possession of drug-related equipment. She was held on $12,000 bond.
