Month: June 2013

Valrico resident Michelle Guy was sentenced this week to 48 months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud. Her husband and co-defendant Kevin Guy was sentenced last month to 37 months in prison for his involvement in the same fraud. Each...

The U.S. Attorney in Tampa announced earlier this month that Philip Lavoie of Sarasota pleaded guilty to operating a common carrier while under the influence of alcohol. These types of cases can be tried in federal court because of the authority of the Federal...

Acting on a Crime Stoppers tip that someone was manufacturing methamphetamine at a local motel, Hillsborough County deputies found an active lab beneath the bathroom sink in a room at the Masters Inn Tampa East in Seffner this week, according to a report from the...

Mary Winston's family - her husband and three adult children - have been charged with aggravated manslaughter in her October 2012 death. Mary Winston had such severe rheumatoid arthritis that she couldn't move and depended on her family for care for three...

This week, Larry Jay Reed was sentenced to 15 years in prison plus five years of probation in the 2010 shooting death of his pregnant girlfriend, Anastasia Boyd. A jury found Reed guilty of manslaughter after trial this spring.Prosecutors and defense attorneys both...

As reported this week in the Bradenton Herald, Delmer Smith will once again be in a Manatee County courtroom next week, seeking a new trial for his murder conviction in the slaying of Kathleen Briles.Bjorn Brunvand of this office will represent Smith.Briles was beaten...

After a two-and-a-half month trial and almost three weeks of deliberation, a federal jury in Tampa found four health care corporation executives guilty of charges of submitting fraudulent reports to the state Medicaid program. The execs were found not guilty of many...

We reported here last month that Brandon resident Ralph Wald was on trial for the murder of Walter Conley. Conley was an on-again/off-again lover of Wald's wife who was shot and killed in Wald's wife after Wald discovered the two having sex. Wald maintained that he...