Nick Bollea wants to move to California. Bollea's attorneys are asking the Florida Department of Corrections agency to let him serve the rest of his probation in California, said DOC spokeswoman Jo Ellyn Rackleff. The request is in the form of an application for an interstate compact agreement, which allows people on probation to move to a state different from the one in which they were convicted. ...more

December 31, 2008

Nick Bollea wants to move to California, according to a spokeswoman with the Florida Department of Corrections. ...more

December 30, 2008

LARGO -- An unemployed man was arrested Monday evening on charges he raped a mentally challenged girl earlier in the day. Michael A. Diffenderfer, 55, was charged with one count of sexual battery. He was being held this morning at the Pinellas County Jail on $100,000 bail. ...more

December 30, 2008

Two men were arrested after a fight at a Tarpon Springs nightclub Friday night where two men were stabbed, one of them after being struck with a beer bottle, police said. ...more

December 27, 2008

A bus purchased by the Pinellas County Jail is equipped with computers capable of video conferencing between inmates and family and friends. ...more

December 26, 2008

A former employee of Bayfront Medical Center was arrested Monday night, accused of bilking the hospital out of more than $368,000 over four years, the St. Petersburg Police Department said. ...more

December 22, 2008

Video visitation for inmates at the Pinellas County Jail is nothing new. What is new, though, is how this service will be provided in the next few weeks. In addition to the 52 booths set up for visits near the jail on 49th Street, the Sheriff's Office has purchased an old bus from the Jacksonville area. The vehicle is equipped with 5 laptop computers capable of video conferencing between the jail and family and friends who can now see and hear them from a remote location. ...more

December 19, 2008

A 22-year-old man in Pinellas County Jail is accused of causing a man's death by selling him Xanax tablets and giving him an Opana pill. ...more

December 17, 2008

Deputies say they discovered about 100 marijuana plants growing in the backyard of a Seminole home. ...more

December 9, 2008

A St. Petersburg businesswoman was arrested today on charges she was part of a scheme to defraud the state Medicaid program of roughly $70,000, the Attorney General's Office announced. A speech pathologist, whom the businesswoman employed, is also expected to be taken into custody in connection with the scheme. ...more

December 8, 2008