Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Pasco deputies' knock brings supper, not subpoena, during holidays

There was a knock on her door. Someone called out "Sheriff's Office," and Krystal Simonds stiffened.

She remembered the last time authorities came by her home.

In April, Dade City police found her brother-in-law, Charles Andrew Simonds, 37, dead from multiple gunshot wounds to his back.

Five months later, Krystal Simonds' husband was laid off from his job with a Tampa pest control company. The next month, her father-in-law died.

"It has been a rough year," said Simonds, 33.

But the knock on the door Tuesday morning brought good news.

Simonds was one of 540 families that received a food basket as part of the Pasco County Sheriff's Office annual holiday food drive.

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