Polk County deputies have concluded an 11-month crack cocaine trafficking investigation with charges against 60 people, some of whom have ties to violent crime, according to authorities. ...more

December 19, 2009

Polk County deputies have concluded a large-scale crack cocaine trafficking investigation with charges against 60 people, some of whom have ties to violent crime, authorities say. ...more

December 18, 2009

The detention deputy was sitting at his desk when the inmate attacked. The deputy is 64; the inmate is 40 years his junior. ...more

November 5, 2009

A 17-year-old boy collapsed while playing basketball at a Polk County juvenile detention facility and later died, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

January 27, 2009

The attorney for Washington Nationals outfielder Elijah Dukes said the ex-Tampa Bay Rays player expects to meet next week's deadline to pay more than $40,000 in court-ordered child support and alimony to his estranged wife. ...more

January 16, 2009

Mob scion John A. "Junior" Gotti should stay behind bars while awaiting trial on charges he was involved in three gangland murders and cocaine trafficking, a judge ruled Thursday. ...more

January 15, 2009

The following people were booked Tuesday, Dec. 23 into the Highlands County Jail: ...more

December 27, 2008

Three people are facing armed drug trafficking charges after investigators discovered a stash of cocaine, marijuana, morphine and Ecstasy in a house south of Gunn Highway, affidavits say. ...more

December 18, 2008

Three homeless men somehow obtained a kilogram of cocaine that they tried to sell to an undercover investigator on Friday, deputies said. ...more

November 22, 2008

A U.S. marshal who shot a suspect last month did so accidentally after colliding with the suspect with his gun drawn during a chase, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. ...more

November 19, 2008