Month: December 2012

Unsurprisingly, a grand jury returned a fifty-seven-count indictment this month charging Rashia Wilson of Wimauma and Maurice Larry of Tampa with conspiracy and multiple counts of wire fraud, filing false tax returns, theft of government property, and aggravated...

Earlier this month, social worker Stephanie Ross died after allegedly being slashed multiple times with a large butcher knife by Dade City resident Lucious Smith. Ross was visiting with Smith to help him manage his Medicaid benefits. She had visited him on three prior...

A Hernando County judge sentenced Mikell Begley of Brooksville to 11 years in prison last week for the April death of Begley's friend Gary Ziegler. The sentence came after Begley pleaded no contest to DUI manslaughter.Had he been convicted at trial, Begley faced a...

Jervis Wise, an attorney here in the Law Offices of Bjorn Brunvand, obtained a not guilty verdict this week for a client in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division. Wise's client was charged with conspiracy to possess with...