An ex-con brandishing a gun and wearing a plastic badge he bought at Wal-Mart claimed to be a U.S. marshal when he handcuffed and interrogated a man last week, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office reported. ...more

August 1, 2008

Ingrid Vecsey picked up her 38-year-old son from a bar Saturday night, and soon after they got home, he began beating and choking her to the point she spit up blood, according to a Pasco County Sheriff's Office report. ...more

July 29, 2008

Ingrid Vecsey picked up her drunken 38-year-old son from a bar Saturday night, and soon after they got home, he began beating and choking her to the point she spit up blood, according to a Pasco County Sheriff's Office report. ...more

July 28, 2008

It's almost like being rescued from a sinking ship. ...more

July 27, 2008

Authorities arrested a man they say broke into a Palm Harbor home early Friday and raped a 57-year-old woman. ...more

July 26, 2008

A man who was tried on a rape charge this week was sentenced to prison Friday. ...more

July 26, 2008

A Palm Harbor man was arrested several hours after he bound a woman's hands and sexually battered her Friday, Pinellas County deputies say. ...more

July 25, 2008

man who was tried on a rape charge this week was sentenced to prison today. Just not for rape. A jury deliberated two hours before finding Steven Vanwart not guilty of sexual battery, false imprisonment and aggravated assault. The 42-month prison sentence came as a result of Vanwart's no contest plea to an identity theft charge. Vanwart, 42, entered the plea Friday while the jury was deliberating the rape charges. Keeping the identity theft charge separate meant jurors considering the rape charges didn't hear some evidence. Among the evidence kept from the panel were booklets investigators found when they searched Vanwart's travel trailer. Among the titles were "Vanishing Point, How to Disappear in America Without a Trace" and "How to Get Lost — and Stay that Way," records show. ...more

July 25, 2008

On the first day of trial Wednesday, jurors heard testimony from a 19-year-old woman who says Steven Vanwart, an acquaintance, raped her while she was pregnant last year. ...more

July 24, 2008

After Darrel Engram was arrested Monday on charges of making an unlawful pawn transaction, police say he told them how he got the purloined property. ...more

July 24, 2008