The prosecutor and the victim's family want a judge to reduce the sentence of a man who participated in the killing of a Haines City police officer nearly 11 years ago. ...more

November 14, 2008

A man in a ski mask waved an American flag and a handgun on a freeway overpass for about three hours Monday morning, forcing a massive traffic shutdown before he surrendered. ...more

November 3, 2008

Nelson Capestany had just bought a Slurpee at 7-Eleven and was waiting for the light to change at Moog Road and U.S. 19 when a man pointed a black and silver pistol at him and jumped into his car on the last day of August, according to a Pasco sheriff's office report. ...more

October 15, 2008

Nelson Capestany had just bought a Slurpee at 7-Eleven and was waiting for the light to change at Moog Road and U.S. 19 when a man pointed a black and silver pistol at him and jumped into his car on the last day of August. Now, that man – Javon Corzell Jones - is sitting in the Land O' Lakes Jail awaiting trial on charges of armed carjacking, armed robbery and false imprisonment. He was arrested in connection to the summer carjacking Monday at the jail where he's been since Sept. 11 on other charges. Sitting in the front passenger seat, Jones, 27, ordered Capestany to drive to a mobile home park off of Alternate U.S. 19 just after 4:30 a.m., according to a sheriff's office report, and made him go inside the home. ...more

October 14, 2008

An expelled 16-year-old student entered a Christian high school during a chapel service Tuesday and put a pellet gun to the pastor's head before he was tackled by the principal and arrested, officials said. ...more

September 24, 2008

Prosecutors played a haunting audiotape of a 2005 courthouse shooting rampage that left four people dead as they launched their case against the alleged gunman Monday, while his attorneys said he was so deluded he believed he was carrying out a rebellion. ...more

September 23, 2008

Polk Community College shut down its two campuses Monday, fearing a gunman might be en route. ...more

September 23, 2008

Polk Community College shut down its two campuses today, fearing an armed gunman might be en route. Law enforcement learned there was a credible threat that someone might bring a gun onto the Winter Haven campus and harm someone, Winter Haven police spokesman Brad Coleman said. He said the threats came from a 39-year-old student who works on campus. ...more

September 22, 2008

TAMPA – Police are searching for the gunman who killed a man in front of his house just after midnight. ...more

September 18, 2008

Police arrested a suspect in the armed robbery of the Cindy's Hallmark greeting card store Monday, in the Sebring Square shopping center. ...more

September 16, 2008