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Tampa police: Kicked out of bar, drunken man returns with knife
By Stephanie Wang, Times Staff Writer

TAMPA — Drunk and disorderly, a Tampa man was told to leave a bar around midnight Saturday. But he wasn't gone long from the Stop In Tavern.

Police say he soon returned with a 10-inch kitchen knife.

According to jail records, the "extremely intoxicated" suspect confronted a male victim and stabbed him once in the left forearm. The knife, police said, went in one side and out the other.

The victim was not named in the arrest report.

Bar patrons subdued the suspect until police arrived at the tavern, 4317 W South Ave., in Drew Park.

Timoteo Garcia, 40, of Tampa was arrested Sunday morning at St. Joseph's Hospital. He faces a charge of aggravated battery.

Garcia was being held Sunday at the Hillsborough County Jail on $7,500 bail.



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Deepcow Feb 5, 2012 2:54 PM Yesterday Deport him, green card or not!
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Gaius Baltar Feb 5, 2012 3:11 PM Yesterday How do you know he's an immigrant? Reply Report Abuse 3 1
Deepcow Feb 5, 2012 5:54 PM Yesterday Arrest report states his place of birth as Honduras. Reply Report Abuse 0 2 Gaius Baltar Feb 5, 2012 3:12 PM Yesterday Hopefully the next time he does this Florida will allow him to bring his gun with him into the bar. Then he can protect his Second Amendment right to kill.
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hardraada Feb 5, 2012 4:43 PM Yesterday Why no. That would be illegal to bring his gun into the bar. I'm sure that's why he left the gun outside and only brought a knife. Didn't wish to violate any laws. Reply Report Abuse 0 2 gdcares Feb 5, 2012 4:29 PM Yesterday All in the day of another boozer loser. Grow up folks it is wqaay past time.
Reply Report Abuse 1 1 gdcares Feb 5, 2012 4:30 PM Yesterday Sorry that was suppose to read way past time.
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bueller Feb 5, 2012 6:45 PM Yesterday The devil made you do it Reply Report Abuse 0 0 hardraada Feb 5, 2012 4:42 PM Yesterday "Bar patrons subdued the suspect until police arrived ...Timoteo Garcia... was arrested Sunday morning at St. Joseph's Hospital."

Apparently the bar patrons 'subdued' Timoteo in a...vigorous...manner.
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Deepcow Feb 5, 2012 5:55 PM Yesterday He fell and hit his face on their fists. Reply Report Abuse 0 1
TruthisSoarinAway Feb 5, 2012 8:42 PM Yesterday Then apparently kept slipping. gracious. Reply Report Abuse 0 1 Retired99 Feb 5, 2012 8:44 PM Yesterday Yeah, that had me wondering, too. Timoteo must have refused to give up the blade and/or started waving it around. Get 6 people to chuck beer bottles at him until he lets go. Reply Report Abuse 0 0 ServingHim Feb 5, 2012 6:35 PM Yesterday Satan, wreaking havoc on another unsuspecting soul and ruining this mans life with alcohol... Jesus said "the evil one comes to seek, kill and destroy but I have come that you may have life and have it abudantly"...
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bueller Feb 5, 2012 6:47 PM Yesterday Sorry but me and satan got to watch the game now. Reply Report Abuse 0 4
ServingHim Feb 5, 2012 8:22 PM Yesterday I'm watchin it too! Go GggggggMen! Reply Report Abuse 0 0 EmptyBarrelsMakeTheMostNoise Feb 5, 2012 11:10 PM Yesterday what a simple mind it is to blame all the problems of the world on a red devil with a pitchfork, horns and a tail instead of the actual individual. God, you're dumb Reply Report Abuse 1 4 Mr Lizard Feb 5, 2012 11:10 PM Yesterday I love how they keep the comments going on this story but shut down the ones about the guy waving a gun at a sushi joint in carrollwood.
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Retired99 Feb 5, 2012 11:27 PM Yesterday Political correctness at its finest !! Reply Report Abuse 0 0 dhanes420 Feb 6, 2012 8:34 AM About 2 hours ago Dammit, you beat me to that comment. Of course they disabled commenting; that was a black guy in Carrollwood. I am surprised they didn't disable them here as well. Reply Report Abuse 1 0
dhanes420 Feb 6, 2012 9:09 AM About 1 hour ago And of course the article on the traffickers and illegals has commenting disabled. Reply Report Abuse 0 0 Tampa Law Dog Feb 6, 2012 10:22 AM About 12 minutes ago "If you throw me out of this bar now, I will come back more drunk than you can possibly imagine"
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TruthisSoarinAway Feb 6, 2012 10:36 AM Less than a minute ago


TruthisSoarinAway Feb 6, 2012 10:36 AM Less than a minute ago I noticed that the fire dept stalking quelled a bit yesterday. One assumes they did not want DUIs. Instead it was their puerto rican (self-identified) business partners who take no days off and do everything SOOO overblown there wer 50 of them and their auto dealer tags crammed in a seven eleven with me. Idiocy. Even the clerk commented on it.
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