Month: November 2012

The trial of Dorice DeeDee Moore, accused of killing a Lakeland lottery winner in 2009, began this week in a Hillsborough Circuit courtroom. Moore is accused of fatally shooting Abraham Shakespeare, who won a $17 million lottery jackpot in 2006. His mummified body was...

Bruno Skoczynski, a 36-year-old mortgage broker from Dunedin, was sentenced this month by a Tampa federal court to two years in prison. Skoczynski owned E-Value Mortgage Services and E-Value Title Services. He pleaded guilty to mortgage fraud conspiracy charges in...

Federal prosecutors in St. Louis, Missouri have charged a Pasco County woman in a scheme they allege involved tax fraud and identity theft. Authorities claim 27-year-old Tania Nichole Henderson of Wesley Chapel was the ringleader of a theft ring that defrauded the...

Christopher A. Koenig, a 29-year-old Lakeland man, was arrested earlier this week in Polk County after allegedly hitting a teenaged pedestrian with his car and fleeing the scene, according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office. Koenig faces one count leaving the scene...

Shaneva Boyd of Clearwater was sentenced earlier this month to 12 months and 1 day in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for participating in a conspiracy to commit federal student financial aid fraud. The federal court in Tampa also ordered...

An early morning Port Richey traffic stop last Tuesday ended with the arrest of three people, two charges of battery on deputies and one DUI charge.Pasco County deputies stopped David Schumaker near Cochise Lane and Sandalwood Drive at about 1:50 a.m.. He, his brother...

A Hillsborough County jury listed to the evidence against Trevor Dooley and now deliberates to determine whether he is guilty of the death of his neighbor near a Valrico basketball court in 2010. Dooley, a 71-year-old ex-school bus driver is charged with manslaughter...

Local media reported another round of tax refund fraud charges in the Tampa Bay area recently. Federal prosecutors now claim that several former Hillsborough County high school football players participated in the scheme and even recruited students at the University...