Stealing a leaf blower in Haywood County ended last week with a hefty prison sentence for an Asheville man, who fled from – then assaulted and spit on – law-enforcement officers, after driving at a high rate of speed through a crowded parking lot. District Attorney Ashley Hornsby Welch said 40 year-old Jeremy Revis will serve up to 117 months in the N.C. Department of Corrections. On April 28, 2020, a leaf-blower owner, in connection with the theft from a garage on Browning Branch, recorded the tag number of a Toyota truck, then contacted law enforcement. At the same time, on Hendrix Street, Waynesville Officer Tyler Howell was in his patrol car, checking vehicle tag numbers. Howell recognized the description of a pickup truck he had cleared seconds earlier and matched the tag number.