A suitcase filled with clothes caused traffic congestion in North Tampa as deputies shut down a road and detonated the suspicious baggage in a McDonald's parking lot. ...more

August 5, 2008

TAMPA - The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office Bomb Squad has been called out tonight to the scene of a Pinellas County house fire. Pinellas deputies received information "there may be dangerous substances inside the house, which could cause explosions," a Pinellas County Sheriff's Office release states. ...more

June 27, 2008

Six red sticks with the appearance of dynamite were discovered Sunday night in a Spring Hill home. ...more

June 24, 2008

Authorities found a number of small, explosive-making materials at a Clearwater house Saturday morning, leading to the evacuation of surrounding homes. ...more

June 8, 2008

Authorities are analyzing a number of small, explosive-making materials found inside a Clearwater home this morning. ...more

June 7, 2008

TAMPA The fiery explosion lifted the flaming car tire some 200 feet into the air. It was enough to make the students shudder. The boom came a second later and set car alarms off almost a quarter of a mile away. ...more

June 4, 2008

MADEIRA BEACH - A spent flare from a fighter jet washed up on the beach here, and the Hillsborough County bomb squad is on its way to dispose of it, sheriff's officials said. ...more

May 22, 2008

TAMPA - The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office bomb squad is en route to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office administration building in Largo. ...more

May 6, 2008

BELLEAIR BEACH - A mother and her daughter today stumbled upon military ordnance — and, as it turns out, a live grenade — as they were cleaning out the mother's garage, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. ...more

May 2, 2008

SEBRING — As a former officer at the Avon Park Correctional Institution, Hector Velazquez Jr. dealt with violent, drug-addicted inmates on a daily basis. Now, because of an alleged eight-day cocaine fueled crime spree in 2005, Velazquez, of Sebring, will be behind bars. ...more

February 19, 2008