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Hernando man charged with armed robbery with knife
Submitted by Robby Douglas on Wed, 07/07/2010 - 11:29am.
Allen Alexander Moody
An Inverness man was arrested on Monday following an armed robbery in Hernando of a 54-year-old Hernando man.
Citrus County Sheriff's Office dputies arrested Allen Alexander Moody, 27, of 1355 N. Paul Drive.
Deputies were called about the robbery at about 3:48 p.m. According to the arrest report, a woman and the victim were stopped at a stop sign when Moody, with a bandana over his face, approached the car the couple was driving, presented a knife and demanded the victim's medications he had just received from a Tampa Bay pain clinic.
The report says deputies were told that the victim and Moody got into a struggle, and the victim hit Moody in the face and then ran away.
The deputies were also told that Moody got into the car with the woman and allegedly demanded she drive off, which she reportedly did. Deputies stopped the woman's car a short time later, and she told them the story, including that her child had been buckled into a car seat in the back of the car at the time of the robbery. She also said the complied with the robber's request because she was afraid for her child's safety.
A detective talking with the woman driver was told by another deputy that a neighbor had Moody getting out of the driver's car, and that there had been no one else in the car. She later told the deputy she had forgotten she had picked Moody up on her way home he was walking down the street.
Another deputy reported to the detective that Moody's nose was injured, and when asked about that, the driver admitted Moody was her brother, and that it was Moody who confronted her and the victim and then jumped into her vehicle when the victim fled. She told the detective she didn't know Moody was going to "do this," and that the first time she "became aware" was when he pulled the bandana away from his face and she saw him bleeding.
Moody declined to speak with law enforcement officers, and was arrested and taken to the county jail, where he was charged with robbery with a deadly weapon. Bond was set at $50,000.
The case is still under investigation.
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The arrest of Mr. Moody for the alleged crime and his being incarcerated may appear as a factual account of the events that occurred. However, the newspaper account is based on whatever the Citrus County Sheriff's Office recorded in the arrest records. Do not think I am sympathetic with criminals, I am not.
When it comes to information released by the Sheriff's office, it is the arresting deputies account of the facts. Last September 1, 2009 my son was arrested by deputies based on a sociopath neighbor of mine who told them a purely fictional account of the facts. The ramifications of a false arrest resulted in my son held at the Lecanto jail where he was not allowed any visitors, could not use the telephone, forced to take medication by the guards and murdered. He had a 107 degree temperature, severely dehydrated and delusional before they decided to send him to a hospital.
The jail made sure he did not die on their premises but sent him to Citrus Memorial where he died. On September 24,2009 the chief jailer telephoned me to tell me my precious boy was dead. I paid $5,000 to a local lawyer to have the charges dropped and my son released. The next time I saw my child, he was lying in a coffin at age 43 and my screaming could not bring him back. Two month's prior to my son's death, my daughter age 45 mother of five children died unexpectedly of swine flu.
Both my children had shocking, unexplainable deaths and now I visit them in the cemetery where they are buried in the same grave. My family has been and is devastated by their deaths.
The Lecanto jail owned by Corrections Corporation of America, the deputies and the guards were supposed to safeguard my son, not kill him. There has been no investigation and I was never contacted before my child died. My son's death is not the only inmate who has died as a result of the brutality and cruelty inmates are subjected to. How many more people have to die before there is an investigation of the Florida jails?