Month: December 2012

Kimberly Losudo of Spring Hill now faces two child abuse charges after authorities discovered cocaine in the systems of two children, 9- and 11-years-old.Losurdo reportedly admitted to investigators that she smoked crack in the residence where the children were also...

George Hondrellis, co-defendant in former Hillsborough County Commissioner Kevin White's corruption case, has been deemed mentally incompetent to stand trial. According to the federal magistrate on the case, Hondrellis will be treated for his mental condition for at...

Former Tampa Bay Rays pitching prospect Matt Bush pleaded no contest just before Christmas to DUI with bodily harm, accepting a plea agreement with 51 months of prison time less 272 days time served.This is the third DUI-related conviction for Bush. His driver's...

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...

In late November, Alcisviades Polanco of Tampa cut off Wathson Adelson, also of Tampa, in traffic on Manhattan Avenue. Adelson then sped around Polanco and stopped his car. Both men got out of their cars and began to argue.The argument turned physical. Adelson...

Lawrence Dickey of Plant City was convicted earlier this week of second-degree murder for fatally clubbing his wife Beatrice with a bat in 2011.A Hillsborough County jury deliberated six hours before rejecting the prosecution's argument that Dickey committed...

Dorice "DeeDee" Moore was convicted earlier this week for murdering Abraham Shakespeare in 2009. After the jury returned its verdict, Hillsborough Circuit Judge Emmett Battles sentenced Moore to life in prison for first-degree murder. The state was not seeking the...

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...