The Florida Highway Patrol arrested a 44-year-old investigator and researcher for the Pasco-Pinellas State Attorney's Office on charges of driving under the influence, possession of a controlled substance and trafficking hydrocodone on Sunday. ...more

December 28, 2009

Detectives arrested a Pinellas County detention deputy this morning while he was on duty and charged him with doctor shopping and prescription fraud. The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said Michael Bowman was arrested following an investigation that started in August after the department received information he was getting treatment from more than one doctor with the intent to get prescriptions for hydrocodone and oxycodone. ...more

November 3, 2009

SPRING HILL An employee at a doctor's office is accused of using her position to call in painkiller prescriptions for herself. ...more

September 24, 2009

An 83-year-old pain management doctor has been indicted on 10 charges of illegally prescribing pain and anti-anxiety medications from his Busch Boulevard office. ...more

March 24, 2009

A Walton County sheriff's deputy charged with drug trafficking is the third to be fired by the department in recent days. ...more

January 11, 2009

A former Pasco County sheriff's deputy was sentenced Friday to two years in federal prison for participating in a drug ring by using his patrol car and service weapon to rob a man he thought was a drug courier. ...more

December 13, 2008

A former Pasco County sheriff's deputy was sentenced this afternoon to two years in federal prison for participating in a drug ring by using his patrol car and service weapon to rob a man he thought was a drug courier. ...more

December 12, 2008

TAMPA After being arrested Wednesday on drug charges, Christopher Allen jumped out a police cruiser's window trying to escape, Tampa police say. He was caught after a two-block chase. About 1 a.m. Wednesday, Allen entered his father's home without permission and took cash and prescription drugs, according to an arrest affidavit. ...more

November 13, 2008

When Gisela Maria Torres was fired from her job at a Temple Terrace medical office yesterday, she didn't go quietly, according to police. ...more

June 21, 2008

CLEARWATER - A Pinellas County Jail employee was accused today of using more than one doctor to obtain prescriptions for hydrocodone that she was not entitled to, detectives said. ...more

June 10, 2008