Deputies have one more weapon against DUI offenders: A newish mobile DUI enforcement unit. ...more

February 12, 2009

Deputies have one more weapon against DUI offenders: A newish mobile DUI enforcement unit. The trailer isn't exactly new - nearly two decades old - but the onetime Crime Prevention Unit has been repurposed as the DUI Enforcement Mobile Unit. The $30,000 transformation was funded in part by a $16,000 grant from Pasco's Alliance for Substance Abuse Prevention, known as ASAP. The remaining $14,000 used to spruce up and outfit the once moldy trailer came from the Pasco Sheriff's Office's federal forfeiture funds. "Thanks to the drug dealers of Pasco County we were able to furbish this and finish out the grant," Pasco Sheriff Bob White said today, smiling outside his administration building. "Everyone plays a role in this." ...more

February 11, 2009

Tourism Coordinator Sue Rupe today will be driving to the I-95 Florida welcome center, just outside Jacksonville, and set up a small table to greet people coming across the state line. ...more

January 30, 2009

The two undercover detectives were driving by when they noticed three teens on bicycles acting oddly outside a gas station Monday evening. ...more

January 28, 2009

Hours after the teenager was taken into custody on charges he tried to kill an undercover police officer, the family of James A. Seay came to his defense this morning, saying the allegations were out of character for him. ...more

January 27, 2009

A neo-Nazi group has joined the state's Adopt-A-Highway volunteer litter pickup program, taking advantage of a free speech court fight won four years ago by the Ku Klux Klan. ...more

January 22, 2009

A Mexican citizen who pleaded guilty to one count of illegal re-entry into the United States after being deported was sentenced today to five years in prison, prosecutors say. ...more

November 18, 2008

A Latin Kings gang member who attorneys say turned his life around and helped prosecutors go after other members of the gang was sentenced Friday to six years in federal prison for racketeering conspiracy, a sharply reduced term because of his cooperation. ...more

October 4, 2008

A Latin Kings gang member who attorneys say turned his life around and helped prosecutors go after other members of the gang was sentenced today to six years in federal prison for racketeering conspiracy, a sharply reduced term because of his cooperation. ...more

October 3, 2008

A Miami-Dade man is dead after being repeatedly shocked by a Taser stun gun. ...more

August 16, 2008