Pasco Deputies Seek Amateur Detectives To Help To Solve Crimes

PASCO COUNTY, FL — The Pasco County Sheriff's Office is seeking witnesses to two unsolved crimes.

On Wednesday at 10:15 a.m., a man with a handgun robbed a business near the intersection of State Road 54 and Rowan Road in New Port Richey.

He is described as Black, in his early 20s, between 5 feet 8 inches and 5 feet 10 inches tall and around 130 to 150 pounds. He was carrying a red backpack.

Anyone with information on this case can submit a tip to the Pasco Sheriff’s Office Crime Tips Line at 1-800-706-2488 and refer to case number 22027545, or submit a tip online at pascosheriff.com/tips.

Detectives are continuing to seek the thieves who robbed appliances from a home in the 8000 block of Capstone Ranch Drive in New Port Richey between July 29 around 1:30 p.m. and July 30 around 10:30 a.m.

The thieves, shown in the video, used a white box truck to move the stolen items. The box truck has blue HID headlights and may have lettering on the passenger door.

On July 29 around 3:40 a.m. and on July 30 around 4:20 a.m., the box truck was spotted again on Capstone Ranch Drive.

If you have any information on this case, submit a tip to the Pasco County Sheriff’s Crime Tips Line at 1-800-706-2488 and refer to case number 22026237, or submit a tip online at pascosheriff.com/tips.