About seven months before John "Junior" Gotti and four other men were arrested on racketeering charges, a defendant in another mob case secretly pleaded guilty, prosecutors announced today. ...more

December 10, 2008

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

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

TAMPA Former Department of Children and Families spokesman Al Zimmerman is set to go on trial Jan. 26 on child pornography charges. U.S. District Judge Susan Bucklew scheduled a trial this morning after Assistant U.S. Attorney Colleen Murphy-Davis said she would like to tell the seven victims in the case a definitive trial date. ...more

November 12, 2008

TAMPA Three men accused of committing a crime spree in Hillsborough and Polk counties in July were indicted today by a federal grand jury. ...more

November 6, 2008

Haines City Police Chief Morris West has been indicted on three counts of soliciting prostitutes in November and December. ...more

October 24, 2008

TAMPA – Former state Department of Children & Families spokesman Al Zimmerman pleaded not guilty today to child porn charges. ...more

October 23, 2008

Authorities have found more victims of a former state Department of Families & Children spokesman who was jailed on child porn charges, a federal prosecutor said this morning. ...more

October 15, 2008

The mother of a missing 3-year-old Florida girl went before a judge Wednesday to hear charges she killed her daughter, a day after she was indicted after four months of searches yielded no sign of the child. ...more

October 15, 2008