Month: April 2012

Prosecutors in Polk County charged Christopher Whaley of Lake Wales with first-degree murder this weekend after he allegedly confessed to stabbing and killing his 69-year-old grandmother in the mobile home they shared.Authorities say Whaley told them he had an...

Salvador Rojo Medina was charged this weekend in Clearwater with driving while intoxicated. Clearwater police first alerted to Rojo Medina's car when he reportedly threw a beer can out the window of his truck window while driving eastbound on Sunset Point Road...

Ashraf Ali Abukhdeir of Tampa was charged in Polk County with selling synthetic marijuana out of his Winter Haven convenience store. Undercover Polk County sheriff's detectives arrested Abukhdeir after he allegedly sold them the synthetic marijuana K-2.Detectives...

Joshua Davis was denied bail by a Polk County judge this week. Davis faces two charges of first-degree murder, one charge of attempted murder and one charge of child abuse in the deaths of two Polk State College students and injuring another in front of his 6-year-old...

Federal prosecutors in Tampa unsealed a thirty-count indictment this week charging Luis Duluc, formerly of Weston, Florida, and Margarita Grishkoff of North Carolina with conspiracy to commit health care fraud, and additional substantive counts of health care fraud,...

A Hillsborough County jury took found Oscar Ray Bolin Jr. guilty Thursday in the 1986 stabbing death of Natalie Blanche Holley. A judge then sentenced him to life in prison. Bolin had previously been charged with first-degree murder in the case. Over the years, Bolin...

As reported by both the Tampa Tribune and the Tampa Bay Times, defense attorney Bjorn Brunvandrepresents accused murderer Oscar Ray Bolin in his retrial on murder charges this week. Bolin is charged in Hillsborough County with the 1986 murder of Natalie Holley. This...