Police say they arrested five men late Saturday and early today in a prostitution sting on Nebraska Avenue. ...more

May 10, 2009

A 5-year-old boy told police his parents "smoke drugs a lot" while his father and others were being arrested on drug and child-neglect charges. ...more

February 14, 2009

A Brooksville man is charged with impersonating a law enforcement officer. ...more

February 10, 2009

Armed with graph after graph showing improvements in the police department's performance, St. Petersburg Police Chief Chuck Harmon this afternoon tried to beat back the impression among some city council members that St. Petersburg has become less safe. ...more

February 5, 2009

A Largo man now faces a second charge of pretending to be a police officer and luring a woman into his car to perform sex acts. ...more

February 4, 2009

A man is accused of first pretending to be an undercover police officer and then using his bogus status to lure a woman into his car to perform sex acts on him. ...more

January 28, 2009

Hours after the teenager was taken into custody on charges he tried to kill an undercover police officer, the family of James A. Seay came to his defense this morning, saying the allegations were out of character for him. ...more

January 27, 2009

Friends and relatives gathered just beyond the crime scene tape Thursday morning to comfort one another and try to come up with a reason for the fatal shooting of Cory Lynn Evans. ...more

October 17, 2008

Local defense lawyer Kevin Napper, accused of propositioning an undercover police officer, has been placed in a pretrial diversion program. Napper, married to Circuit Judge Katherine Essrig, was put in the misdemeanor program designed for first-time offenders. ...more

October 16, 2008

A local defense attorney who is married to a circuit court judge is accused of propositioning an undercover police officer for sex, records show. Kevin Napper, 51, of Tampa was released from a Hillsborough County jail Monday on $250 bail. He is charged with soliciting another to commit prostitution, a misdemeanor. ...more

September 30, 2008