Four men – including three from out of state – conspired to buy 7 kilograms of cocaine from undercover Tampa police detectives, police say. ...more

August 27, 2008

An Oviedo man with ties to a drug scheme involving two former Pasco County Sheriff's Office employees entered a guilty plea Friday in U.S. District Court. ...more

August 23, 2008

John "Junior" Gotti has left a New York prison and should arrive in Tampa on Tuesday, said his attorney, Charles Carnesi. ...more

August 15, 2008

John "Junior" Gotti has left a New York prison and should arrive in Tampa around Tuesday, according to his attorney, Charles Carnesi. Gotti is traveling via U.S. Marshal's "Con Air" service, his attorney said. ...more

August 14, 2008

Two men who pleaded guilty in April are scheduled to be sentenced this morning on charges they were middlemen in a bribery scheme through which unqualified people obtained commercial driver's licenses. ...more

July 29, 2008

Deputies arrested a woman on child neglect and drug charges because her 3-year-old son was sitting next to her in the car when she sold crack cocaine to a confidential informant, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

July 20, 2008

Friday afternoon, Jeffrey Alan Curry and Luis Manuel Buitrago Jr. met with a couple of men they thought would sell them a kilo of cocaine, police said. ...more

July 20, 2008

Friday afternoon, Jeffrey Alan Curry and Luis Manuel Buitrago Jr. met with a couple of men, police say, they thought would sell them a kilo of cocaine. ...more

July 19, 2008

Kenneth Ray Walker was ordered to take a drug test as part of his probation, but when he went to take his test Tuesday afternoon at the Plant City Police Department, police said that Walker claimed that he could not urinate at that time. An officer told him to keep trying. ...more

July 16, 2008

TAMPA — Two men from California are being held without bail at Orient Road Jail today after paying undercover detectives about $38,000 during an undercover drug buy, records show. Anthony Robinson, 43, of Fontana, Calif., and Alvin Emmitt Wade, 34, of Inglewood, Calif., are charged with felony cocaine trafficking and conspiracy to traffic in cocaine, jail records show. ...more

July 9, 2008