Tom Lake, Elizabeth Dyer, Saundra Amrhein: Three men went on a rampage. It involved guns, money and sexual violence. It lasted at least seven weeks, stretching from downtown St. Petersburg to Apollo Beach.
The authorities got together Thursday and said they had put a stop to it. Three suspects were in jail.
St. Petersburg police intend to file more charges against the three today in connection with a rape and robbery of a downtown restaurant.
The suspects are Mexicans who live in eastern Hillsborough County. One is a strapping 13-year-old with a Latin gang tattoo on his left cheek. The man described as the ringleader is an illegal immigrant who was arrested here at least twice before and set free without being deported.
The crimes accumulated quietly, with little media attention at first, insulated from each other by time and distance.
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