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Tampa Man With Orange Bucket Lands In Hot Water

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Published: March 3, 2009

TAMPA - An orange bucket helped lead to the arrest of a man accused of robbing a Hess gas station, police said.

Tampa police charged Samuel Marquez Colon, 19, of Tampa with felony armed robbery, felony burglary and misdemeanor criminal mischief on Monday after a woman in a mobile-home park on North Central Avenue called police to report a suspicious-looking man, a report states.

About 12:02 p.m., the woman noticed Colon holding an orange bucket behind a friend's trailer. When she went to shoo him away, she saw a window in the trailer had been broken, police said.

The woman went around the front of the trailer and saw Colon leaving, so she asked him what he was doing, police said. He told her he thought the trailer was vacant and left, police said.

The woman called police, who, using her description, found Colon a short time later at North Florida and East Linebaugh avenues.

Police said Colon confessed to breaking into the trailer, as well as robbing a Hess gas station about 5:19 that morning at North Florida and East Linebaugh.

Officers found a .22 Ruger from the gas-station robbery at the back of the trailer with the broken window, police said.

Colon was held without bail today at the Orient Road Jail.

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