Now-former Tampa Bay Buccaneers tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkins was about to end a traffic stop with a Florida Highway Patrol officer last Friday with only a warning. But, according to the officer, Sefarian-Jenkins told him a meandering tale about life in the NFL,...
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Month: September 2016
Confession in 1987 Murder Cited in Motion to Set Aside Sentence of Man Convicted of the Slaying
Leo Schofield was convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to life in prison in 1989. Almost three decades later another man has come forward claiming responsibility for the murder and has filed a motion with the relevant court asking to go on the record with his...
Flak Jacket Test Leads to Manslaughter Charge Against Tampa Man
One man is dead and his cousin is in jail after a test to determine whether a flak jacket could stop a bullet went tragically as expected.According to Tampa police, twenty-four year old Alexandro Garibaldi fired a single shot at Joaquin Mendez, who was one year his...
Tampa Man’s Felony Murder Conviction Reversed in 1986 Killing
Florida's 2nd District Court of Appeal ordered a new trial for George Shrader on Wednesday, thirty years after the body of the woman he was originally convicted of murdering was first discovered in southern Hillsborough county.Shrader, who celebrated his fiftieth...
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The butterflies in his stomach were playing ping-pong with the steak he had eaten a few hours before. He'd asked for it to be medium-rare, which it probably had been about twenty minutes before the cook took it off the grill. The baked potato was tolerable, but the...
Clearwater Woman Apprehended on Suspicion of Torching Car She Thought Belonged to Ex-Boyfriend
A Clearwater woman was arrested on Saturday morning after being recorded while allegedly torching a car she believed belonged to her ex-boyfriend.Nineteen-year-old Carmen Chamblee was arrested by officers from the Clearwater Police Department after a week-long search....
HCSO Deputy Serving Drug Warrant Kills Unarmed Tampa Man
An unarmed Tampa man was mortally wounded by a Hillsborough county sheriff's deputy on Tuesday morning in the course of serving a warrant in the Clair-Mel area.The Hillsborough Sheriff's SWAT team arrived around 8 A.M. at a home near S 78th Street and Palm River Road...
