Month: May 2012

Nineteen-year-old Miguel Angelo Rivera of Tampa was charged with DUI after being involved in an injury accident on Dale Mabry Highway earlier this week. Five people were hospitalized after a crash that law enforcement claims was caused when Rivera's car spun into...

Russell B. Simmon Jr., operator of Simmons Auto Sales on 34th Street in Tampa was indicted on fraud charges this week, according to the U.S. Attorney's office in Tampa. The used car dealer is accused of accepting fraudulent tax refund checks as payment by customers...

Over Memorial Day weekend, Winter Haven resident William Cornwell, a U.S. Navy veteran and security guard at Winter Haven Hospital, shot and killed 40-year-old Christopher Brian Deese. Polk County Sheriff's deputies report that Deese broke into Cornwell's home and...

The state attorney's office for Manatee County has declined to charge 19-year-old Davell Kendricks with manslaughter for the New Year's Day death of Rashawn Scott.According to the Manatee County Sheriff's Office, Kendricks and Scott were playing cards with a group of...

Sanjeev Grover, a Lutz physician, was sentenced this week to five years in federal prison for distributing the painkiller oxycodone outside the scope of his practice. Grover also was ordered to relinquish his medical license with the state and his Drug Enforcement...

Two local businessmen were named in a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday accusing them of conspiring to profit from fraudulent tax refund checks. Osama "Sam" Mahmud Mustafa of Riverview and Khaldoun "Tony" Khalil Khawaja of Tampa, as well as Khawaja's brother, Muawia...

Seventeen-year-old Gerald Terrell Jones of Brandon was acquitted of attempted second-degree murder by a Hillsborough County jury earlier this month. Jones previously admitted to shooting his drug dealer in the face after a drug deal went bad. The trial judge had...

As reported in the Tampa Bay Times, a Pinellas-Pasco judge granted a hearing for Stephanie Spurgeon to determine if there is evidence to support a dismissal or new trial in a manslaughter case pending against her. Spurgeon, a Palm Harbor day care owner, argues that...