Deputies arrested a Tampa couple today, accusing them of owning roosters for cockfighting, records show. ...more

February 13, 2009

A motion of acquittal was granted in the trial of a Lake Placid man charged with operating a grow house. ...more

January 21, 2009

Pasco County detectives found nearly $1.5 million cash in a truck driven by a New Port Richey man wanted on federal drug charges, the sheriff's office said Thursday. ...more

December 12, 2008

Pasco County detectives found marijuana and nearly $1.5 million in cash in a truck driven by a man wanted on a federal arrest warrant, the sheriff's office said today. ...more

December 11, 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

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

TAMPA - Police arrested three people at a house in Old Seminole Heights on Wednesday after finding a book on growing marijuana at the house and 25 pounds of the drug, they said. ...more

June 12, 2008

LAKE PLACID — Six Lake Placid residents of Cuban citizenship were arrested Thursday in three separate growhouse busts by the Highlands County Sheriff's Office. ...more

February 23, 2008

The son of a Shady Hills couple found shot dead in their home Feb. 11 has been charged with two counts of premeditated murder, records show. ...more

February 22, 2008

TAMPA - A 60-year-old man is being held without bail today after sheriff's deputies accused him of growing marijuana inside his house. The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office arrested Oscar Rodriguez of 10004 Memorial Highway in Tampa on Thursday after searching his house under a warrant, investigators said. Authorities found 55 marijuana plants, equipment for growing the plants, 3 grams of cocaine and drug paraphernalia, the sheriff's office said. ...more

October 1, 2007