A man who coaxed sexual favors from two boys in exchange for trips to the skating rink received 16 1/2 years in prison and a sexual predator designation in Circuit Court on Wednesday. ...more

January 11, 2008

For the second time in as many months a Lakeland elementary school principal has been arrested on suspicion of possession of child pornography, officials said. ...more

January 10, 2008

A Tampa Bay area legal expert says charges of child pornography may not stick to a Lakeland school principal. ...more

December 25, 2007

BARTOW - A Polk County principal was arrested today after deputies found pictures of a childlike naked woman with the head of a girl superimposed on the image, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said. ...more

December 21, 2007

TAMPA - A Tampa man is being held without bail in Lake County after investigators there said he traveled to Clermont for sex with a 7-year-old girl and her mother. Neither the child nor her 32-year-old mother exists. The mother was an online persona adopted by a Lake County Sheriff's Office detective communicating via the Internet with the man, Kenneth Gene Miller, 51. ...more

December 14, 2007

LAKELAND - The biological father of a Lakeland teen facing weapons and child pornography charges was arrested on drug charges late Thursday. ...more

November 2, 2007

LAKELAND - Shawn Newberry, the 18-year-old who had an arsenal of weaponry and was arrested on a school weapon charge, was charged with 26 counts of possession of child pornography today, police said. ...more

November 1, 2007

TAMPA - A 33-year-old Tampa man arrested in March and charged with possession of child pornography has been arrested again and charged with making some of the images and molesting a child. ...more

October 31, 2007

Florida's sex predator penalties became among the nation's toughest Monday as a new law took effect tripling maximum sentences to 15 years for solicitation and child pornography. ...more

October 2, 2007

A man accused of holding and showing off a tape depicting the sexual assault of a 3-year-old girl was taken into custody Sunday, authorities said. ...more

October 1, 2007