Acting on tips, Pasco County sheriff's vice and narcotics detectives discovered a marijuana crop in a backyard after flying over the property this week. ...more

September 12, 2008

NEW PORT RICHEY - Acting on tips, Pasco sheriff's vice and narcotics detectives this week discovered a marijuana crop in a backyard after flying over the property. ...more

September 11, 2008

Two Sebring men remained in Highlands County Jail on Monday after they were arrested as suspects and charged with armed burglary of an Arbuckle Creek Road home and grand theft of firearms, video games and jewelry within. ...more

August 26, 2008

BRADENTON BEACH – A 79-year-old man fatally shot himself in the chest while sitting on a bench behind the concession stand at Coquina Beach this morning. ...more

August 5, 2008

A nurse at the Zephyrhills Correctional Institution was arrested early this morning on charges of armed trafficking in cocaine, trafficking in cocaine and possession of drug paraphernalia, Tampa police say. Oberdella Melvin, 46, was arrested at 12:25 a.m. A search warrant was executed at her home, 1105 Facet View Way in Valrico. ...more

July 23, 2008

SEBRING — A Sebring woman and her family were safe Tuesday after getting away from her husband, who reportedly beat the woman and threatened to shoot them all if they tried to leave their home. Jesus Vasquez Grimaldo, 44, of Sebring, also known as Jesus Vasquez, Jose Grimaldo and Jose Grimaldo Vasquez, was booked Monday on charges of two counts of kidnap-false imprisonment adult victim, resisting a law enforcement officer without violence, kidnap-false imprisonment of a child with aggravated abuse, three counts of cruelty toward a child with infliction of physical or mental injury and one count of battery. ...more

June 3, 2008

The Taser that Hillsborough County deputies fired at Thomas Tyrone McCleave was ineffective, so they pepper-sprayed him, authorities say. ...more

February 5, 2008

The Taser that Hillsborough County deputies fired at Thomas Tyrone McCleave was ineffective, so they pepper-sprayed him, deputies say. Even then, he refused to comply with commands and said deputies would have to kill him before he went back behind bars, sheriff's spokeswoman Debbie Carter said. ...more

February 4, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - After a man picked up a hitchhiker Tuesday night, the hitchhiker pulled out a handgun at a gas station and took the man's car, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. ...more

January 30, 2008

Thinking his home was being invaded by a desperate escapee from Citrus County Jail, a 63-year-old Beverly Hills man squeezed off a shot from his .38 Special early Sunday morning at a bushy haired figure next to his backyard pool. ...more

January 17, 2008