As part of its Operation3D Heightened Patrol, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office will set up a DUI checkpoint tonight at Bell Shoals Road and Bloomingdale Avenue. ...more

June 26, 2009

A federal office building in downtown Tampa was evacuated this afternoon when a suspicious package was found in the mailroom, authorities say. Seventy-five people working in the building, which houses Immigration and Customs Enforcement as well as U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services workers, were evacuated about 1:45 p.m., Tampa Fire Rescue Capt. Bill Wade said in a written statement. ...more

January 15, 2009

Charles Stephen Dixon made racial remarks against a booking sergeant at Orient Road Jail and spat in the faces of two detention deputies, Hillsborough County deputies say. ...more

January 8, 2009

Within weeks, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office will train detention cadets and deputies on how to lift, search and otherwise handle disabled inmates. ...more

August 16, 2008

Within weeks, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office will implement training for detention cadets and deputies on how to lift, search and otherwise handle disabled inmates to prevent situations such as one with a quadriplegic man in January that triggered national criticism. ...more

August 15, 2008

A Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office corporal was fired and a second deputy resigned over the treatment in January of a quadriplegic inmate, according to internal affairs reports released Tuesday. ...more

August 13, 2008

Nine Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office employees were negligent in their treatment of quadriplegic former Orient Road Jail inmate Brian Sterner, according to an internal affairs report released today. ...more

August 12, 2008

The citizens' panel reviewing Hillsborough County jails is showing the diligence and objectivity necessary to find the truth about an operation whose reputation was tarnished when a jail guard dumped a paralyzed man out of his wheelchair. ...more

May 19, 2008

If you didn't know any better, you would have thought the film footage coming out of the Orient Road Jail, of ham-handed thugs masquerading as guards, was something out of "Cool Hand Luke." ...more

February 14, 2008

If you didn't know any better, you would have thought the film footage coming out of the Orient Road Jail, of ham-handed thugs masquerading as guards, was something out of "Cool Hand Luke." ...more

February 14, 2008