The Lake Wales Police Department has opened an administrative investigation into a melee that followed a weekend traffic stop. ...more

November 10, 2009

The Lake Wales Police Department has opened an administrative investigation into a melee that followed a weekend traffic stop. ...more

November 9, 2009

A traffic stop for tinted windows turned into an angry confrontation between police, deputies, state troopers and as many as 100 bystanders. ...more

November 9, 2009

A body was found inside a car that was engulfed in flames from a single-car accident in Lake Wales this morning, the Polk County Sheriff's Office reports. ...more

January 3, 2009

A Lake Wales police detective was arrested late Thursday and accused of exchanging sexually charged text messages with a 16-year-old Lake Wales High School student working in the police cadet program, which he coordinated, according to a Florida Department of Law Enforcement report. ...more

May 9, 2008

Mike Bustamante Jr. weighed 18 ounces when he arrived three months early Thursday, hours after his mother was kidnapped and burned during a Lake Wales robbery. ...more

December 16, 2007

The baby born from a woman who was kidnapped and burned in a robbery on Thursday in Lake Wales died early this morning. ...more

December 16, 2007

Police detectives were investigating an armed robbery at a fast food restaurant that happened at about 11:40 p.m. Friday. ...more

September 25, 2007