Hillsborough County Circuit Judge Robert Foster imposed a 40-year prison term on Roberto Enrique Denizard, 25, 2225 E. 131st Ave., Tampa. ...more

November 6, 2008

Police plan to have extra units patrolling near North 19th Street and East Wilder Avenue because a man robbed a 15-year-old girl at gunpoint at a school bus stop there this morning. ...more

October 31, 2008

Authorities are looking for a man they say forced a tour bus driver at gunpoint to drive to the Downtown Disney area. ...more

October 25, 2008

Allen J. Crotzer, the former St. Petersburg resident who spent 24 years in prison for crimes he did not commit, got a fresh start Tuesday when the state cleared his record of two unrelated convictions. ...more

October 22, 2008

Allen J. Crotzer, the former St. Petersburg resident who spent 24 years in prison for crimes he did not commit, received pardons from the state today for convictions armed robbery as well as for selling drugs in prison. ...more

October 21, 2008

A 6-year-old boy kidnapped from a Las Vegas home by alleged drug dealers posing as policemen has been found alive in a neighborhood northeast of the Las Vegas Strip, police said early Sunday. ...more

October 19, 2008

A bank robber's escape attempt was foiled today when a dye pack in the money he stole exploded in his getaway vehicle and a Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office bloodhound tracked him to his home in the Carrollwood area, deputies say. ...more

October 7, 2008

A 24-year-old St. Petersburg man was arrested Sunday on charges he and three other suspects boxed in a vehicle Thursday with two cars to commit a robbery, St. Petersburg police said. The charges against Reo Roeshawn Weston include kidnapping and armed robbery. ...more

October 6, 2008

Detectives say a man jailed in Pasco County on murder charges is connected to an April 8 fatal shooting outside a Tampa restaurant. ...more

September 30, 2008

A man accused of helping hijack a charter fishing boat named "Joe Cool" and killing the four people aboard says he was tricked into the crime and that he lied to authorities because he was scared and confused. ...more

September 23, 2008