Brooksville Motel Guest Robbed After Inviting Woman Back; Two Held on $5,000
Two women — Tammy Patton and Amanda Hampton — were booked on $5,000 bonds after a Brooksville man says a white male and two women stole about $500 from his Budget Inn room and shut his hand in a car door.
Tammy Patton and Amanda Hampton were booked into the Hernando County Jail on $5,000 bonds after Edward Summerlin reported a violent robbery at a Budget Inn room at 1795 E. Jefferson Street in Brooksville, according to probable-cause accounts. Summerlin told deputies he had recently received a Social Security check and “reportedly [had] approximately $500 in cash on him,” and that the cash and his wallet were taken from pants on the floor.
Summerlin said he rented the Budget Inn room on Feb. 25 and invited an acquaintance he knows as “Tammy” to the room to drink. After Tammy returned with alcohol, a second female arrived and Summerlin “stated that he no longer wanted Tammy’s friend in the room, so he gave her $10 to leave.” Around midnight, Summerlin alleges the second female returned with an unknown white male.
The probable-cause affidavit states that “the male suspect allegedly threw Summerlin onto the bed and struck him in the face twice with a closed fist. The suspect then allegedly grabbed Summerlin’s pants from the floor, which contained his wallet and cash. All three individuals then fled the room and entered a white sports utility vehicle.” Summerlin “reportedly attempted to stop them by holding the rear driver’s side door, but the male suspect allegedly shut his hand in the door as they fled,” and deputies documented an injury to Summerlin’s right hand consistent with being shut in a door.
Deputies were dispatched to 528 Sharon Street in Brooksville at about 6:03 a.m. on Feb. 26 after an initial call believed to be a vehicle burglary was later reclassified as a robbery of a person. Deputy Jack Evans reviewed motel surveillance video, and investigators say the footage “corroborated the victim’s account” and “allegedly identified Tammy Patton and Amanda Hampton at the motel during the timeframe of the incident.” The white SUV used by the three fleeing individuals remains part of the investigation; the male who allegedly struck Summerlin has not been identified publicly.
The law-enforcement accounts note additional physical evidence consistent with Summerlin’s report: deputies observed “a red substance believed to be blood on a pillowcase, where he said he had been held down.” Booking records in the supplied accounts list Patton and Hampton as held on $5,000 bonds, but the affidavit excerpts do not specify the exact formal charges filed against either woman.
Local law-enforcement files show other recent hotel and motel altercations in Hernando County that investigators are treating as separate incidents. One early-morning November incident at a Days Inn on Windmere Road involved Alfonso Castillo, 33, and Israel Olivares, 41; investigators say video showed Castillo brandishing a knife and that Castillo was arrested on aggravated battery while Olivares was arrested on a charge of making a false report, with both men held without bond on an ICE detainer. In another unrelated case in neighboring Brandon, a witness said “there was a knock at the door, and when the victim answered it, ‘three people rushed in with a knife and a machete,’” and a judge later described that matter as a “three-on-one assault involving bladed weapons.”
Hernando County investigators continue to seek the unidentified white male and are reviewing motel surveillance and booking records as the case proceeds; Patton and Hampton remain held on $5,000 bonds in the Hernando County Jail according to the booking information included in the affidavits.
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