A 36-year-old Tampa man choked a woman with a television cord, refused to let her leave, held her at knifepoint and threatened to kill her and their unborn child Monday, Hillsborough County deputies say. Deputies arrested Kirby Cook at his home at 6:58 p.m. Monday. He was charged with aggravated battery, aggravated assault, false imprisonment and domestic battery by strangulation. ...more

February 17, 2009

A Tampa man is accused of snatching his 1-year-old child out of a moving car during an argument with his estranged wife, putting the child in harm's way, an affidavit states. ...more

February 15, 2009

A Tampa man is accused of snatching his 1-year-old child out of a moving car during an argument with his estranged wife, putting the child in harm's way, an affidavit states. ...more

February 14, 2009

A man once convicted of vehicular homicide has been arrested on drug charges. Hillsborough County deputies arrested Corbin Legiles Nottingham at 10:50 p.m. Sunday. The 20-year-old Tampa man was arrested at 23rd Street and 138th Avenue and charged with possession of crack cocaine with intent to sell, possession of crack cocaine, and obstructing or opposing an officer without violence. He also was charged with violating probation on the vehicular homicide conviction. ...more

February 9, 2009

A 36-year-old Tampa man faces charges of armed robbery with a deadly weapon in connection with a robbery reported Saturday afternoon at Yasmin Food Store, 2409 E. Lake Ave., in which a clerk suffered lacerations to the face, head and hands, the Tampa Police Department reported. ...more

February 7, 2009

A 53-year-old Tampa man has been arrested on a charge of first-degree murder. Hillsborough County deputies arrested Paul Dotson at 5:45 p.m. today at 78th Street. He was involved in the slaying last month of 57-year-old Judith Rolander, deputies say. ...more

February 6, 2009

Hillsborough County deputies have arrested a Tampa man on charges relating to child pornography. Justin Copolino, 41, also was arrested on lewd or lascivious charges relating to a child under the age of 16, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office Web site. ...more

February 5, 2009

A Tampa man was arrested Sunday morning as part of a drug-related home invasion, Tampa police say. ...more

February 2, 2009

A 45-year-old Tampa man was sentenced today to six months in a halfway house and five years probation for trying to bring a hunting knife onto an airplane. ...more

January 29, 2009

Authorities have identified the person killed while retrieving a ladder on Interstate 75 Wednesday as a Tampa man. ...more

January 25, 2009