By ALEXANDRA ZAYAS and DEMORRIS A. LEE, St. Petersburg Times

Priest's plea for help nets beating

TAMPA, Fla. - Marine reservist Jasen Bruce was getting clothes out of the trunk of his car when a bearded man in a robe approached him.

That man, a Greek Orthodox priest named Father Alexios Marakis, speaks little English and was lost, police said. He wanted directions.

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