A routine traffic stop Sunday netted a stolen handgun after officers spotted one of the car's occupants trying to conceal the weapon under a seat, authorities said. The stop happened just before 3 p.m. Sunday at 15th Street and East Osborne Avenue, Tampa police said. ...more

July 6, 2009

The charges against accused pharmacy robber Patrick Papach mounted today as Pinellas County sheriff's investigators formally filed ...more

September 19, 2008

It was after he was forced into the back seat of a car at gunpoint Sunday night that kidnapping victim Gregory Longley saw his opportunity. ...more

September 9, 2008

A Seven Springs Middle School student was arrested Friday after a search of his backpack revealed a 9 mm Smith & Wesson handgun with a round loaded in the chamber, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office reported. ...more

September 6, 2008

A Seven Springs Middle School student was arrested today after a search of his backpack revealed a loaded 9 mm Smith & Wesson handgun, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office reported. The 12-year-old student, facing a charge of possession of a firearm on a school campus, was taken to the Juvenile Assessment Center. The gun was found when an administrative assistant saw students looking into a backpack and acting suspicious, the sheriff's office reported. The staff member asked what was in the bag, and the boy, a seventh-grader, said it was a BB gun, the report states. The boy said he brought the gun to school to show to a friend, the report states. ...more

September 5, 2008

And just what exactly did Omali Yeshitela, St. Petersburg's official village blowhard, expect police Officer Terrence Nemeth to do Saturday night as he confronted a teenager who had been firing a weapon into the air. ...more

June 12, 2008

"I got a subject down" a voice on the police radio said. "He had a gun. ... ...more

June 10, 2008

A Tampa man who bought a stolen Smith & Wesson handgun kept it unsecured and loaded in his 2005 Dodge Ram pickup and let his children use the vehicle, Tampa police say. ...more

January 21, 2008

Paul James Sullivan's most recent jail booking mug shows a prominent cut above his left eye. ...more

December 5, 2007