Backwoods Search Yields Two Suspects

SPRING LAKE - It took a high-speed chase, four hours of tromping through underbrush and a lucky break, but a pair of suspected robbers were captured Monday.
Six hours before he was pulled from the woods coated in mud, Brian Aubertin was inside a Lincoln LS parked outside a Homosassa drug store.
Or as his alleged accomplice knew it: The getaway car.
Inside the drug store, around 10 a.m., Martin Curtis Carr Jr. slipped the pharmacist a note demanding 30 milligram pills of Oxycodone hydrochloride, according to Citrus County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Gail Tierney.
But something spooked Carr, 23, before he received anything and he sprinted out the door to the waiting Lincoln.
Walgreens employees followed him out to the parking lot and relayed a description of the car to authorities. A Citrus County deputy spotted the car on U.S. 41 and a southbound pursuit began that topped 90 mph, Tierney said.
The chase was called off as it crossed into Hernando County and approached Brooksville. Hernando County deputies began searching for the car and found it, crashed into a fence, at the intersection of Spring Lake Highway and Hayman Road.
But their job was far from done. Witnesses spotted at least two suspects bailing out of the car, so deputies fanned out into the area of Mountain Lake and Neff Lake. A reverse 911 was sent out to residents in the area warning them of the danger.
Thick woods and rugged terrain gave the upper hand to the suspects and slowed the progress of the deputies. But at roughly 2:15 p.m., Carr was arrested.
There was still one suspect at large, Aubertin, and the search was later scaled back for lack of results. Around 4 p.m., a man dressed all in black and caked with mud knocked on a door in the 2600 block of Powell Road.
He left before deputies showed up, but it was only a matter of minutes before they caught up with him.
Around 5 p.m., the sheriff's office announced a third suspect is at large. He's identified as Jonathon Duplain, 22, and was last seen wearing a blue shirt with a pattern on the bottom, shorts, black Reebok sneaker and has short black hair.
Charges are still pending for the other two but in Hernando County they'll likely be charged for the pursuit, said Sgt. Donna Black, spokeswoman.
Tierney said Carr will be charged for today's robbery and in connection with another pharmacy robbery last Monday.