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Pinellas Teens Caught In 100 MPH Race On Pasco Road

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By Carl  Orth | The Suncoast News

Published: September 22, 2008

Updated: 09/23/2008 11:15 am

HUDSON - A pair of Pinellas County teens were arrested by a Pasco deputy after allegedly being involved in a race with two other vehicles on Little Road early Sunday at speeds approaching 100 miles per hour.

The blue 1988 Ford Mustang he pulled over near the Little Road's intersection with New York Avenue was equipped with a nitrous oxide booster to give the car more speed, Pasco Deputy Michael Toczylowski noted in his arrest reports.

A tipster called authorities about the race, so the deputy parked along Little Road south of Denton Avenue about 2:50 a.m. Sunday and waited.

Soon three cars came roaring south along Little Road. Two of the vehicles were side by side and the third was behind them.

Toczylowski said his laser speed detection device registered 100 mph on the first vehicle, which he then chased. The other two vehicles fled east on New York Avenue.

The two Pinellas County teens, both 18, were in the Mustang, according to Toczylowski.

The driver, Devin H. Kyle of Seminole, and his passenger, Robert Laurence Lanese III of Largo, each faces one traffic count of racing on a highway. They were booked into the Land O' Lakes jail in lieu of $250 bail each.

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