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4 Men, 1 Boy Accused In Beating Of Tampa Resident

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By JOSH POLTILOVE, The Tampa Tribune

Published: December 7, 2007

TAMPA - A Tampa man heard chuckling behind him as he was walking home early Thursday near Memorial Hospital in South Tampa.

When he turned and saw four men and a teenage boy behind him, he ran toward his apartment. The five people chased him, caught him in the 3200 block of W. DeLeon Street, and beat him, police said.

They punched and kicked the man, Zach Boyden-Holmes, a St. Petersburg Times photographer, until he fell to the ground, an arrest report states.

"The entire time, he yelled for help," the report says. "He stated that the group of males then laughed at him."

They continued kicking Boyden-Holmes in the head and neck. He told them to take his things, but they kicked him a little more before fleeing.

They took his wallet, which contained credit cards and cash, and fled west on Swann Avenue in a Honda Civic, according to a criminal arrest affidavit. Police later found the people with the Civic and arrested them at Swann Avenue and Henderson Boulevard.

Boyden-Holmes identified them, and his property was found in the Civic, the affidavit says.

The four men remain in Orient Road Jail with no bail set and face charges of robbery and contributing to the delinquency of a child. They are: Johnathan R. Evans, 19; Andres Rosa Adorno, 31; Gregory Allen Maestas, 22; and Steven Donald Peak Jr., 19.

Peak also faces probation violation charges, and Adorno also was charged with giving a false name to a law enforcement officer and with two counts of driving with a suspended license. Adorno initially told police his name was Mario Baez and that he was from New York, the arrest report says.

Denny Ray Beville, 16, of Tampa, was charged with robbery and initially was sent to a juvenile detention center, Tampa police spokesman Jared Douds said.

Reporter Josh Poltilove can be reached at (813) 259-7691 or jpoltilove@tampatrib.com.

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