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Police: Woman Attacked Cabbie, Paramedic, Deputy

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By NEIL JOHNSON | The Tampa Tribune

Published: October 26, 2008

Deputies arrested a Palm Harbor woman Saturday on charges she attacked a cab driver outside her home as well as a deputy and paramedic who tried to help the driver.

The 57-year-old driver was unconscious when deputies arrived outside the home of Stephanie Gregory and witnesses told deputies that Gregory was kicking and hitting the woman while she was on the ground, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said.

Detectives said the cab driver, who worked for Yellow Cab of Clearwater, did not have obvious injuries from the fight, but that it might have caused the woman to lose consciousness with some life-threatening medical condition. The driver was taken to Bayfront Medical Center.

Before that, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said Gregory hit a hostess at the Kobe Japanese Steak House on U.S. 19 in Clearwater.

Gregory, 29, had been drinking and asked to leave the restaurant about 6:30 p.m. and a taxi cab was called for her, the sheriff's office said.

She was gone by the time deputies arrived to investigate the incident with the 17-year-old hostess who was not injured.

About 15 minutes later deputies were sent to Green Valley Estates at 670 Green Valley Road where a woman was kicking and hitting an unconscious woman, the sheriff's office said.

While deputies tried to subdue her, Gregory punched and kicked a deputy and paramedic and resisted arrest, the report said.

Gregory was charged with one count each of felony battery, battery of a law enforcement officer, battery of a firefighter and resisting arrest with violence, the sheriff's office said.

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