A joint task force of police agencies that included Tarpon Springs police and the Pinellas County sheriff's detectives shut down nine alleged marijuana grow houses in Tarpon Springs, Palm Harbor and Dunedin and elsewhere in the county. ...more

August 22, 2008

An investigation into a Polk County marijuana distribution ring has led to 19 arrests, including the arrest of a Lake Wales police officer, Polk County deputies say. ...more

August 14, 2008

An investigation into a Polk marijuana distribution ring has led to several arrests — including a law enforcement officer, who faces corruption charges — according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office. ...more

August 13, 2008

Detective Ronnie Cooper walked around a sheriff's office conference room Thursday, pointing at light bulbs as long as his forearm and marijuana plants as high as his waist. ...more

August 8, 2008

A 4-month-old baby was discovered inside a marijuana grow house on Wednesday, an affidavit shows. ...more

August 7, 2008

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office has announced 72 arrests and the dismantling of 65 marijuana grow houses in an operation called Indoor Outlaws. ...more

August 7, 2008

SEMINOLE - An injured person call led deputies to a house where they found a man covered with cuts in the front yard and a burned chair and nearly 100 marijuana plants inside the house, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

July 30, 2008

AUTHORITIES ARREST MAN, WOMAN ON DRUG CHARGES ...more

July 18, 2008

Drums filled with 211 marijuana plants were rolled into the back of a moving van Thursday after SWAT and a Hazmat team converged on a home in River Country, deputies said. ...more

July 18, 2008

WEEKI WACHEE - Drums filled with what appeared to be marijuana plants were rolled into the back of a moving van today after SWAT and a Hazmat team converged on a home in River Country. ...more

July 17, 2008