Deputies have one more weapon against DUI offenders: A newish mobile DUI enforcement unit. The trailer isn't exactly new - nearly two decades old - but the onetime Crime Prevention Unit has been repurposed as the DUI Enforcement Mobile Unit. The $30,000 transformation was funded in part by a $16,000 grant from Pasco's Alliance for Substance Abuse Prevention, known as ASAP. The remaining $14,000 used to spruce up and outfit the once moldy trailer came from the Pasco Sheriff's Office's federal forfeiture funds. "Thanks to the drug dealers of Pasco County we were able to furbish this and finish out the grant," Pasco Sheriff Bob White said today, smiling outside his administration building. "Everyone plays a role in this." ...more

February 11, 2009

A Pasco County sheriff's deputy fired last month after an investigation found he was slacking on the job is asking a judge to reinstate him. ...more

February 11, 2009

A Pasco County sheriff's deputy fired last month after an investigation found he was slacking on the job is asking a judge to reinstate him. ...more

February 9, 2009

Felt-tipped pen in hand, Bob White X-ed and O-ed like a fresh graduate from offensive coordinator school. When he'd finished, the sheriff's office command flow chart resembled a diagram for the old Packer sweep, plus a halfback option pass. ...more

February 6, 2009

Pasco County Sheriff Bob White announced Wednesday that recent changes at the sheriff's office will mean 30 more deputies on the "front lines" in his fight against crime. ...more

February 5, 2009

Two veteran Pasco County deputies were fired Monday after an internal affairs investigation concluded they were slacking on the job, according to sheriff's office officials. ...more

January 28, 2009

Three months after a Pasco deputy who reportedly smelled of alcohol and had been driving nearly 100 mph in Pinellas was fired, a second deputy who was in the car has been suspended. ...more

January 23, 2009

A former school resource officer who reportedly told a student he was falling in love with her will not appeal his firing from the Pasco Sheriff's Office as originally planned. ...more

January 21, 2009

A former school resource officer who reportedly told a student he was falling in love with her will not appeal his firing from the Pasco Sheriff's Office as originally planned. Cpl. Christopher Magavero, a school resource officer at River Ridge Middle School, was fired in October, the same day investigators say he took the 13- year-old out of class and declared his feelings. ...more

January 20, 2009

Roberta Wido said Monday she always knew the man who gunned down her 82-year-old husband before her eyes in their Timber Oaks home last summer would be caught. ...more

January 13, 2009