A federal judge jailed a Lutz man Wednesday without setting bail after a prosecutor expressed concern that he presents a danger to the community. ...more

January 31, 2008

TAMPA A federal judge jailed a Lutz man today without setting bail after a prosecutor expressed concern that Mark Koert presents a danger to the community. ...more

January 30, 2008

TAMPA - A criminal complaint has been filed in federal court against a Lutz man accused of ramming a stolen boat into a Coast Guard vessel and trying to hit a Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office vessel Saturday as Gasparilla festivities were winding down. ...more

January 30, 2008

This country's new president reacted furiously Thursday to accusations by U.S. prosecutors that an intercepted suitcase full of cash from Venezuela was meant to finance her election campaign, calling the charge "garbage in international politics." ...more

December 14, 2007

TAMPA - Investigators who went to search the home of a registered sex offender for evidence of Internet child pornography found the suspect naked at his computer, according to a federal complaint. ...more

November 27, 2007

A former immigration enforcement agent who was based at MacDill Air Force Base was arrested Friday night in Tampa in connection with the alleged rape of a 39-year-old Jamaican detainee, according to records and published reports. ...more

November 18, 2007

TAMPA - A former immigration agent employed at MacDill Air Force Base was arrested in Tampa Friday night in connection with the rape of a 39-year-old Jamaican detainee, according to records and published reports. Wilfredo Vazquez, 35, is accused of sexually assaulting the mother of two at his Tamarac home, in Broward County, on Sept. 21, the Miami Herald reported in today's edition, citing a criminal complaint filed Friday in Miami federal court. ...more

November 17, 2007

A 64-year-old St. Petersburg man described in court papers as "a sex tourist of epic proportion" has been sentenced to more than nine years in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to federal charges, admitting he traveled to Asia to have sex with children. ...more

November 16, 2007

Doris Hutton was almost able to make it to age 84 without exhausting her modest life savings. ...more

October 27, 2007

A Kuwaiti-born math teacher wielding butcher knives and vodka bottles who intended to ignite explosives was trying to commit suicide, not an act of terrorism, when he attacked military policemen at Homestead Air Reserve Base, FBI officials said. ...more

October 24, 2007