A 61-year-old Sarasota man is accused of having 70 images of child pornography on a home computer, officials said. ...more

March 25, 2009

Rhett Hopkins refused to pay his $4 bar tab at O'Malley's bar in Sarasota because, he said, he was an undercover officer with the Tampa Police Department and worked on homeland security. ...more

February 2, 2009

A North Port man faces felony charges for an alleged drunken attack on a group of teenagers, according to a police report. ...more

January 23, 2009

A police cruiser rolled over after a pursuit early Monday along U.S. 301, where officials say a man smoked crack and taunted officers before he sped off in his van. ...more

January 6, 2009

Sarasota deputies have arrested a man they say raped a 15-year-old girl at gunpoint this month. Marcoust Dula, 36, was arrested Wednesday night in Sarasota and is charged with sexual battery of a child, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, grand theft and kidnapping. ...more

December 11, 2008

A man accused of robbing a Lakeland bank on Friday was arrested today in Sarasota, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

December 8, 2008

Manatee deputies arrested a Bradenton man they say killed a man whose body was found in a Palmetto palm tree farm in October. ...more

November 16, 2008

- The man accused of kidnapping Denise Lee from her North Port home and killing her may be incompetent to stand trial, his attorney says. ...more

November 15, 2008

A corrections deputy did not use excessive force to subdue an inmate who had her spleen removed after a scuffle in the Sarasota County jail last year, a federal jury ruled this week. ...more

September 27, 2008

Venice police arrested Christopher Wade Carter, 23, early Friday after he reportedly met a 15-year-old girl on the social networking site MySpace and drove from Bradenton for sex with her. ...more

September 19, 2008