Pasco County detectives have released new details about two recent unrelated homicides and are asking for the public's help in solving them. ...more

December 11, 2009

A Hillsborough Circuit Judge today dismissed armed kidnapping, aggravated battery and aggravated assault charges against two suspected Latin King gang members. Judge Daniel H. Sleet cited the refusal of the FBI to turn over information to a defense attorney for Michael Lugo and Omari Elijah Tolbert, who were scheduled to go on trial this morning. ...more

July 28, 2008

After more than 20 hours of testimony over four days, a defense attorney has not yet completed her questioning of prosecutors' key witness in the Latin Kings street gang case. ...more

December 1, 2007

WESLEY CHAPEL - A 35-year-old man whom authorities call the "No. 1" suspect in a recent Okeechobee County homicide was arrested Sunday on federal probation violation charges stemming from prior bank robbery, narcotics and weapons possession convictions. ...more

November 19, 2007

TAMPA - A Tampa police detective and an FBI agent paid large sums of money to a known thief, liar and convicted felon, using him as their chief informant during an investigation of the Latin Kings street gang, a defense attorney is trying to prove in a hearing that began Thursday. ...more

November 8, 2007