An undercover detective accused of forging a judge's initials on a search warrant was cleared Tuesday of any wrongdoing after investigators concluded the judge had initialed the document. ...more

May 28, 2008

TAMPA - A criminal investigation by the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office has cleared one of its detectives of wrongdoing after he was accused of falsifying records. ...more

May 27, 2008

CLEARWATER - A 43-year-old California man was arrested Wednesday for soliciting an undercover Clearwater police officer online who was posing as a child, authorities said. ...more

January 31, 2008

LARGO - A man and two women were arrested Tuesday evening on charges they illegally passed themselves off as licensed massage therapists and then performed the massages in the nude or offered their clients sex. ...more

January 23, 2008

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January 22, 2008

Five Tampa residents in a stolen truck led deputies on a high-speed pursuit that began in Polk County late this morning and ended off Interstate 4 in east Hillsborough County. ...more

January 16, 2008

After buying a kilogram of cocaine from an undercover detective on Dec. 19, two Bradenton men offered to pay $148,000 for a total of seven installments, Tampa police said. ...more

December 29, 2007

TAMPA - After inspecting a kilogram of cocaine on Dec. 19 and calling it "good quality," the two Bradenton men bought the package from an undercover detective and offered to pay $148,000 for a total of seven in installments, according to the Tampa Police Department. ...more

December 28, 2007

TAMPA - A Tampa man is being held without bail in Lake County after investigators there said he traveled to Clermont for sex with a 7-year-old girl and her mother. Neither the child nor her 32-year-old mother exists. The mother was an online persona adopted by a Lake County Sheriff's Office detective communicating via the Internet with the man, Kenneth Gene Miller, 51. ...more

December 14, 2007

An optician and a doctor were arrested and charged with exposing themselves to an undercover detective at Saddle Creek Park today, the Polk County Sheriff's Office reported. ...more

October 2, 2007