Month: August 2016

A prominent Tampa attorney pled guilty to charges of hiding proceeds from illegal drug deals last week after agreeing to help a DEA agent and an informer set up a private trust for holding cash proceeds from sales of drugs that didn't exist.Joe M. Gonzales had been an...

A recent study by Harvard Law School finds that, although death sentences have dropped nationwide, Hillsborough and Pinellas counties are among an exceedingly small group where capital punishment is apparently bucking the trend.The report, entitled "Too Broken to Fix:...

Hillsborough County Sheriff's deputies accuse a seventy-year-old Tampa man of causing a three-car accident involving a deputy's vehicle while piloting his own in a state of intoxication.Alfredo Rodriguez-Jimenez was driving down N 15th Street Sunday night when...

A Clearwater man charged in the murder of a woman whose body was found near the Fred Marquis Pinellas Trail was released on Friday after prosecutors dropped the charges against him.Dewayne Jones, who turned 20 almost two months ago in the Pinellas County Jail, was...

One elementary school music teacher is dead and another is in critical condition after allegedly being struck by a drunk driver early Sunday morning.Pinellas Park Police say that Bryce McCloud, a 36-year old man from St. Petersburg, was driving a new Toyota Corolla...

A man on the run from Hillsborough County authorities for almost six years was apprehended in Matamoros, Mexico by officials from the Department of Homeland Security last week.Mario Sanchez Mercado, 27, was apprehended by Mexican authorities in the city just opposite...

A Tampa man who has been wanted in connection with allegedly killing another in a drunken wrong-way driving wreck in 2012 was arrested last week on the southern coast of Spain, 4,600 miles away. Authorities allege that Christopher Ponce (aged 22 at the time) drove his...

Officers called to investigate a panhandler obstructing traffic discover that the homeless man they came to investigate is allegedly a wanted felon in possession of a firearm and cannabis.Hillsborough County Sheriff's deputies were called to the corner of Gornto Lake...

A Tampa man already sought by authorities for failing to appear in court to answer a DUI charge is alleged to have run a red light Monday morning, killing a man and seriously injuring his wife.Carlos Yordanis Fleitas-Spiedad was driving south on Kelley Road and...

A Tampa man is facing charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon after an alleged road rage incident on Thursday.Authorities allege that 29-year-old Ezekiel Henson was involved in an altercation with a group of motorcyclists on N Nebraska Avenue at around 6:30...