The Lake Wales Police Department has opened an administrative investigation into a melee that followed a weekend traffic stop. ...more

November 9, 2009

A traffic stop for tinted windows turned into an angry confrontation between police, deputies, state troopers and as many as 100 bystanders. ...more

November 9, 2009

Lake Wales police arrested two robbery suspects Thursday night, including one whose death penalty conviction for a 1998 murder of a citrus grower had been overturned, leading to his release. ...more

January 23, 2009

Seven Polk County detention deputies were injured Saturday morning after a work van used to shuttle them between jails flipped on U.S. 17, the sheriff's office said. ...more

January 4, 2009

A body was found inside a car that was engulfed in flames from a single-car accident in Lake Wales this morning, the Polk County Sheriff's Office reports. ...more

January 3, 2009

A 43-year-old Lake Wales police detective struck and injured a pedestrian Saturday night as the woman tried to cross the road on Central Avenue in Lake Wales, authorities said. ...more

December 27, 2008

Lake Wales police are investigating a SunTrust Bank robbery that occurred this morning. ...more

September 4, 2008

An investigation into a Polk County marijuana distribution ring has led to 19 arrests, including the arrest of a Lake Wales police officer, Polk County deputies say. ...more

August 14, 2008

An investigation into a Polk marijuana distribution ring has led to several arrests — including a law enforcement officer, who faces corruption charges — according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office. ...more

August 13, 2008

AVON PARK — A Sebring man remained in Highlands County Jail in lieu of $30,000 bond Thursday, after he was arrested on a warrant in connection with a joint drug sting conducted by Avon Park and Lake Wales police departments. Michael Lamar Williams, 25, also known as Michael Lamar Small, Michael Williams and Michael Pye, of 1618 Penny Ave., Sebring, (according to Highlands County Sheriff's Booking) or of 171 E. Rainbow St., Avon Park (according to the arrest report), on charges of possession of marijuana with intent to deliver within 1,000 feet of a church and sale of marijuana within 1,000 feet of a church. Undercover Lake Wales Police detectives reported that on Feb. 1 they were driving in the 800 block of South Delaney Avenue when they were flagged down by buy $20 worth of "green or tree," a common street-level name for marijuana. ...more

May 29, 2008