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Deputies finally catch loose kangaroo

Pasco County, Florida -- A kangaroo on the run since Saturday has been caught. 

The Pasco Sheriff's Office captured it after chasing it for more than a day.

The 5-foot, 200 pound kangaroo was spotted around Mickler Road in Lacoochee. Reportedly, its owners have not been found.

A family living along Mickler road does own a kangaroo farm, although they have not claimed the kangaroo as their own.

After the lengthy chase through Lacoochee, the kangaroo is being held in a pen at Cumber Road while deputies look for the owner. 

Man doused in drain cleaner during fight

Zephyrhills, Florida -- A fight between two people resulted in one being doused in drain cleaner and the other taken to jail Friday afternoon.

Pasco Sheriff's deputies say 34-year-old Lawanda Jenkins and the man who they share two children with were arguing. At some point during the argument, Jenkins doused him on his back and lower legs with drain cleaner which contains sulfuric acid.

Deputies reported the man suffered from spotting consistent with acid burn on his left lower leg due to the acid burning holes through the back of his shorts.

Possibly two different flashers in Pasco County

New Port Richey, Florida - He's accused of doing dirty deeds on buses, the library, a Dollar General, a RaceTrac gas station and even up against a homeowner's sliding glass door.

And Pasco County detectives believe the mystery man riding the bus and exposing himself could possibly be a second person.

"We are looking into that possibility," Sheriff Chris Nocco told 10 News on Wednesday.

He is an African-American man, roughly in his 30s.  Multiple surveillance images have been released.

Man steals antique dolls from neighbor for Christmas gifts

Dade City, Florida -- A man's daughter probably so excited to get Barbie dolls for Christmas is no doubt disappointed after learning she now has to give them back.

Why? Because her dad stole them from his neighbor.

Pasco County Sheriff's deputies say 24-year-old Scott Eastman admitted to them he broke into his next-door neighbor's shed on Old Trilby Road through a window and stole two sets of antique collectible Barbie dolls valued at $1,800 so he could give them to his two-year-old daughter as Christmas gifts.

Year in Review: Weird, weird Florida...

TALLAHASSEE, Florida -- In 2012, Florida was a state where a lifeguard got
fired for saving a life, a woman got arrested for riding a manatee and a
man repeatedly used 911 as a phone sex service.

Think that's weird? It gets worse and more tragic.

Man charged with kidnapping, battering girlfriend

Man charged with kidnapping, battering girlfriend

Dade City, Florida -- A Dade City man was arrested over the weekend after a clerk at Cumberland Farms store reported seeing him grab a woman who was frightened for her life and force her into a car.

The clerk told deputies Charlee Chambers jumped out of a car, banged on the door of the store and said a man in the car -- later identified as her boyfriend Brian Mulford -- was going to kill her. The clerk then watched as Mulford dragged her back to the car and drove off east on SR 54.

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