A judge on Thursday dismissed a probation violation charge lodged against Robert Bruce Pettyjohn, who pleaded guilty to being part of a two-month animal cruelty spree in 2001. ...more

November 7, 2008

A judge dismissed a probation violation charge today lodged against Robert Bruce Pettyjohn, who pleaded guilty to being part of a two-month animal cruelty spree in 2001. ...more

November 6, 2008

Lothario Overstreet met with an undercover detective this afternoon to buy $42,000 in cocaine, Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies say. ...more

October 24, 2008

Robert Pettyjohn, who authorities said was part of one of the worst local animal cruelty sprees in recent history, is back in jail on a probation violation charge. ...more

October 20, 2008

A Wesley Chapel man is accused of breaking into two vehicles - one while the driver was pumping gas - and then leading Hillsborough County deputies on a chase before his arrest, records show. ...more

September 17, 2008

A Wesley Chapel man is accused of breaking into two vehicles – one while the driver was pumping gas – and leading Hillsborough County deputies on a chase before his arrest, records show. ...more

September 16, 2008

A former carnival worker pleaded guilty Monday and received three life sentences on charges of murder, armed robbery and burglary with battery. ...more

June 17, 2008

TAMPA - A former carnival worker pleaded guilty today, picking up three life sentences on charges of murder, armed robbery and burglary with battery. If convicted at trial, Jarvis Sylvester Tabron, 36, could have been sentenced to death. ...more

June 16, 2008

Relatives were looking for Dion Travis White today, concerned about the timing of his disappearance: His stepbrother had been discovered tied up and shot to death Saturday morning at the Lakeland home the two men shared. They found White this morning. His body was hidden under some bushes near the home and Polk County sheriff's detectives are treating the death as a homicide. ...more

June 15, 2008

Twenty years after an off-duty San Francisco police officer was found shot to death in his car, investigators have connected the case to a Florida prison inmate with Tampa Bay area ties. ...more

June 6, 2008