A former Marine lance corporal who pleaded guilty to stealing the identity of a fellow Marine to buy a plasma television online has been sentenced to five years probation, with a condition that he stay in a halfway house on house arrest for six months, his lawyer said. Prosecutors say Steven Lee Fickey stole the identities of about 18 people, using them to buy things through a Web site maintained by the Army and Air Force Exchange Service. ...more

November 7, 2008

A former Marine lance corporal who prosecutors say stole the identities of about 18 people pleaded guilty Friday to stealing the identity of a fellow Marine to buy a plasma television online. ...more

August 23, 2008

TAMPA - A former U.S. Marine lance corporal, who prosecutors say stole the identities of about 18 people, is scheduled to plead guilty this morning to stealing the identity of a fellow marine to buy a plasma television online. ...more

August 22, 2008

A former U.S. Marine lance corporal, known to neighbors for parading around an apartment complex with a ceremonial sword, has agreed to plead guilty to stealing the identity of a fellow Marine to order a plasma television online. ...more

August 20, 2008

Former Marine Cpl. Steven Lee Fickey has agreed to plead guilty to fraud and stealing identities of other Marines, court records show. ...more

August 19, 2008

Jorge Roque endured life in the Kuwaiti desert as his Marine Corps unit waited for the signal that the war in Iraq had begun. He survived as friends died fighting their way into Baghdad. He witnessed the famous toppling of the city's statue of Saddam Hussein. ...more

July 4, 2008

SEBRING — Three Highlands County high school graduates each own a Ford Focus, courtesy of the Wheel's for A's program of the Alan Jay Automotive Network. Quacey Fletcher of Avon Park High, Tara Weeks of Lake Placid High and Sydney Ruble of Sebring High were on hand at Alan Jay Ford Lincoln Mercury on Tuesday to officially take possession of their new set of wheels. ...more

June 3, 2008

Hundreds of Marines were conducting a combat training mission in the Mojave Desert when an air patrol spotted something kicking up dust: A civilian pickup speeding across the barren landscape. ...more

May 24, 2008

A former Marine corporal who told people he was a captain and walked around his apartment complex carrying a ceremonial sword has been indicted on charges he stole the identities of Marines he once served with, according to documents on file in federal court. ...more

October 11, 2007

TAMPA - A former Marine corporal who told people he was a captain and walked around his apartment complex carrying a ceremonial sword has been indicted on charges he stole the identities of Marines he once served with, according to documents on file in federal court. ...more

October 10, 2007