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Man accused of punching Dollar General cashier in mouth arrested
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The man accused of punching a Dollar General cashier in the mouth, causing her to lose several teeth has been arrested.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office confirmed to 10 Tampa Bay that 33-year-old Kyle Clark had been arrested and charged with felony battery.
10 Tampa Bay's Chris Hurst spoke with the victim, Amber Heflin, who said at the time the man who'd punched her had been terrorizing the store for weeks and said she was worried he'd come back.
Several weeks ago, as Heflin worked the register at the Dollar General on 56th Street, an unruly customer cold-cocked her in the mouth.
“It hurts; it really hurts,” she said in a Feb. 12 interview, wincing with pain. “Soon as it happened, I felt it. I had to turn around and spit my teeth out of my mouth.”
Three of her teeth got knocked out, and more are loose and beginning to abscess, she said. She showed us a $15,000 estimate from a dentist to add a bridge and cap some of her remaining teeth.
She said the man has been verbally abusive to workers for the past few weeks, trying to pay with a food stamps card that gets declined.
MORE: https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hillsboroughcounty/dollar-general-cashier-punched-lost-teeth-arrest-temple-terrace/67-dc9b8985-80a7-4765-a3a2-b88580ecd9bb