A Pasco County jury deliberated two hours Tuesday before finding Larkin Derks III guilty of robbery in the February holdup of a Bank of America branch. ...more

October 1, 2009

A Pasco County jury Tuesday deliberated two hours before finding Larkin Derks III guilty of robbery in the February holdup of a Bank of America ...more

September 30, 2009

A homeless man accused of raping an acquaintance in a Sarasota park has been arrested. A Sarasota police officer spotted Ulices Serrano, 27, near 10th Street and Orange Avenue on Wednesday afternoon, ordered him to stop and found a steak knife in his jeans pocket, according to the arrest report. ...more

May 7, 2009

Authorities say a Bradenton man was pretending to be a doctor when he stopped a woman in the hospital parking lot and rubbed her stomach and thighs on March 10. ...more

March 13, 2009

The city's police department is searching for a man accused of robbing the Dollar General on U.S. 301 on Saturday night. ...more

December 17, 2008

It all started with a lost wallet. By the end of his ordeal, Taillie Lee Gainer III, a 30-year-old youth leadership coach from Tampa, had been arrested on forgery charges and lost his mortgage broker and insurance agent licenses. ...more

October 23, 2008

A man who authorities say illegally advertised himself online as a pediatrician surrendered at the county jail on Wednesday morning. ...more

September 18, 2008

SARASOTA COUNTY - The Sheriff's Office arrested a man on charges he used a knife to try to rob an 83-year-old woman Wednesday afternoon, only to flee when she fought back and started screaming. "God bless him; I hope they treat him good," Agnes Lynn said of her attacker. ...more

September 12, 2008

A 17-year-old was arrested today, accused by detectives of fatally shooting a man on Monday, Sarasota police said. ...more

September 11, 2008

An Avon Park woman remained in Highlands County Jail in lieu of $6,000 bond Wednesday, after she was accused of selling an anklet stolen from William's Pawn shop on U.S. 27 in Avon Park, to A-1 Pawn shop, on South Commerce Avenue in Sebring. ...more

September 5, 2008