Month: February 2013

Seventeen-year-old Land O'Lakes High School student Dustin Sean White was shot and killed in a parking lot at a party in 2009. His acquaintance who fired the gun pleaded guilty to manslaughter as part of a plea agreement last week.Douglas Gabriel Cevallos Jr. picked...

Randall Fowler of Holiday, Florida in Pasco County, faces a DUI charge after crashing his pickup truck into a house in Clearwater. He was caught by neighbors as he tried to run away, according to police.Law enforcement said Fowler lost control of his 2002 Chevrolet...

Last week, Hillsborough County commissioners unanimously passed an ordinance that will fine people selling synthetic drugs such as bath salts and synthetic marijuana up to $500 for each package. They hope it will persuade store owners countywide to take the products...

Prosecutors in Hillsborough Countywill have state-retained psychologists evaluate Julie Schenecker, in order to offer an opinion to the court as to the New Tampa mother's mental state at the time of the fatal shooting her two children in 2011. Schenecker is charged...

William Chad Routenberg went through three defense attorneys before advising a Pinellas County court that he would represent himself in a first-degree murder trial. The trial started this week. Routenberg claims admits killing his girlfriend in 2011 but claims it was...

Authorities in Pasco County charged Chekayla Dampier with second-degree murder. They accuse Dampier of murdering her 7-week old son last April by holding him under a spout of blistering 142-degree water as a punishment for crying. At the time of the baby's death,...

Former schoolteacher Robert McCraw was sentenced last week in Hernando County's circuit court for the DUI manslaughter of Ludolf Breymann in Spring Hill. The accident occurred on January 3, 2011. McCraw was sentenced to five years in prison for driving under the...

The Pinellas Country capital murder trial of Ralph "Ron" Wright Jr. continues this week, the fourth week of trial. The case was submitted to the jury for deliberation and jurors in the trial deliberated for 12 hours before recessing for the night.After about seven...