Attorneys for John A. "Junior" Gotti argued today that prosecutors — who were unable to secure convictions in three New York City racketeering trials — have unfairly moved the organized crime case to Tampa and asked that it be returned to New York. Prosecutors said the Florida indictment charges Gotti with felonies committed here, including laundering money from illegal drug sales, and that Tampa is a fitting location for his trial, scheduled tentatively for April. ...more

November 20, 2008

A federal judge will hear arguments this morning over whether the trial of John A. "Junior" Gotti should be moved to New York. ...more

November 20, 2008

A suspected shoplifter was arrested Tuesday with enough ill-gotten prescription pills in her purse to warrant a drug trafficking charge, a report shows. ...more

November 20, 2008

Another circuit judge threw out evidence in a drug possession case, ruling that a narcotics-sniffing dog's nose was not reliable enough to justify searching a vehicle. ...more

November 19, 2008

A former police officer who had been an FBI agent for less than two years was fatally shot Wednesday as he served a warrant at the home of an alleged cocaine dealer. ...more

November 19, 2008

Death penalty cases, by their very nature, are significantly different court proceedings than, say, a drug trafficking case. ...more

November 19, 2008

TAMPA — John "Junior" Gotti wants a judge to force prosecutors to name names. Prosecutors in Gotti's federal racketeering case have asked a judge to allow them to withhold information from the defense about some "co-conspirators or victims of the underlying criminal acts of the Gambino Crime Family Enterprise." ...more

November 18, 2008

John A. "Junior" Gotti's attorneys asked that the case against him be moved to New York, arguing, in part, that Gotti has never set foot in Tampa. ...more

November 7, 2008

TAMPA – Two high-level conspirators in a drug trafficking ring that smuggled cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana from Texas to Florida have been sentenced to federal prison. ...more

November 7, 2008

A plane crash that killed a University of Tampa graduate who is one of the top officials in the war against drug trafficking appears to be an accident, but foreign investigators are in Mexico to rule out an attack by cartels, the transportation secretary said today. ...more

November 5, 2008