An aspiring corrections officer found himself in a familiar place when he was arrested on charges of aggravated assault. ...more

March 9, 2009

Jeffrey Gordon Merritt used a lunch bag and a BB pistol he bought for $30 from Wal-Mart to rob four banks in four months."Let's just get this over with," he told a teller at Andersen Bank in Palm Harbor on Sept. 16. ...more

January 29, 2009

Radford Remington Richardson III shot a 6-year-old boy in the lower right leg with a BB gun, Hillsborough County deputies say. Deputies arrested Richardson at 5 p.m. Tuesday. He was charged with aggravated child abuse. ...more

January 7, 2009

Police said they twice Tasered a man who refused to drop a gun and then ran away before attacking an officer. ...more

December 15, 2008

Diapers, latex gloves and other items found in an ex-astronaut's car can be used as evidence when the woman accused of driving 1,000-miles to confront a romantic rival goes to trial, an appeals court ruled. ...more

December 6, 2008

It's a crime that police officers in a small eastern Arizona community can hardly fathom yet have to deal with: an 8-year-old charged in the fatal shootings of his father and another man. ...more

November 8, 2008

It was an easy arrest thanks to the armed-robbery suspect returning to the crime scene at Orlando International Airport. ...more

October 26, 2008

A Seven Springs Middle School student was arrested Friday after a search of his backpack revealed a 9 mm Smith & Wesson handgun with a round loaded in the chamber, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office reported. ...more

September 6, 2008

A Seven Springs Middle School student was arrested today after a search of his backpack revealed a loaded 9 mm Smith & Wesson handgun, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office reported. The 12-year-old student, facing a charge of possession of a firearm on a school campus, was taken to the Juvenile Assessment Center. The gun was found when an administrative assistant saw students looking into a backpack and acting suspicious, the sheriff's office reported. The staff member asked what was in the bag, and the boy, a seventh-grader, said it was a BB gun, the report states. The boy said he brought the gun to school to show to a friend, the report states. ...more

September 5, 2008

Sheriff's investigators are searching for a man and two women who beat and robbed a 73-year-old Lake Placid man in his Skyline Drive mobile home. ...more

August 20, 2008