36-year-old on probation for carrying concealed firearm. ...more

October 22, 2008

A 27-year-old Tampa man was jailed early this morning, accused of going after an acquaintance with a butcher knife and jabbing the 8-inch blade through a screen door to get at the victim. ...more

October 11, 2008

St. Petersburg police arrested a man early this morning and charged him in the slaying of an acquaintance late Tuesday night, according to a department news release. ...more

October 8, 2008

Rosemary Jenkins heard someone banging on the front door and windows of her Odessa home shortly after 9 p.m. Thursday, deputies said. When Jenkins opened the door her home, at 8030 Peterson Road, she saw an acquaintance, according to an affidavit. According to the affidavit, Renaye Lashawn Hicks, 33, was waiving a semiautomatic handgun and asking for Ndiyya Anderson, who was asleep in a back bedroom. ...more

September 26, 2008

Police responding to a report of gunshots fired at an apartment complex Monday night found three young children alone with a partially loaded assault rifle. ...more

September 23, 2008

A teenager thought he was giving an acquaintance a lift Thursday, but instead the passenger stole his car from him at gunpoint, St. Petersburg police said. ...more

September 6, 2008

A teenager thought he was giving an acquaintance a lift Thursday, but instead the passenger stole his car from him at gunpoint, St. Petersburg police said. The 2007 blue Chrysler Pacifica was later recovered, but the carjacker, whose identity remains unknown, has not been arrested, St. Petersburg police spokesman George Kajtsa said. ...more

September 5, 2008

A married pair of former Internal Revenue Service agents is going that extra mile to see that everyone in the county who deserves a federal stimulus payment gets one. ...more

September 4, 2008

A 71-year-old Manatee County man sexually battered a 7-year-old he babysat, Manatee County deputies say. ...more

September 3, 2008

An 18-year-old Plant City man committed a sexual act on a 7-year-old boy Monday night, Hillsborough County deputies say. ...more

August 20, 2008