Month: October 2016

A police officer of the St. Petersburg Police Department was arrested on suspicion of DUI last week, seven years after a previous DUI arrest that led to his abstinence from liquor consumption to save his job.Thirty-six year old Officer Anthony Mathew Green was...

According to a recent article in the Orlando Sentinel, Orange County prosecutors have sought the arrest of unwilling witnesses to criminal cases more often over the past few years than all other Central Florida counties combined.Although Florida law allows prosecutors...

A report from the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights Watch identifies Pinellas County as residing among the top five counties in the state for arrest rates for drug possession.The report, entitled Every 25 Seconds: The Human Toll of Criminalizing Drug Use...

A Polk County jury acquitted a Lakeland man defended by J. Jervis Wise last month on charges of first-degree murder and armed robbery in relation to the shooting death of an auto mechanic and alleged drug dealer in 2008.Kaheem Shakel Bennett, who was fifteen at the...

A Tampa woman is awaiting sentencing on a conviction of fraud and money-laundering charges relating to her alleged participation in a multi-million dollar Medicare fraud scheme.Pilar Garcia Lorenzo was convicted by a jury of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and...

Corey Rocker turned eighteen in prison, convicted of a murder in which he never touched the weapon used in it. He turned twenty one and twenty five there, too, and marked his twenty-sixth birthday there this spring, knowing nothing but the gray cinder block walls of...

Corey Rocker turned eighteen in prison, convicted of a murder in which he never touched the weapon used in it. He turned twenty one and twenty five there, too, and marked his twenty-sixth birthday there this spring, knowing nothing but the gray cinder block walls of...

The New Yorker ran an exposé of Dade Correctional Institution's Transitional Care Unit last month. Revolving around the story of former TCU counselor Harriet Krzykowski, the piece describes starvation, beating, sexual abuse, and a myriad of other prisoner abuse...

Staring a life sentence in federal prison in the face, a St. Petersburg man is now awaiting sentencing on lesser crimes after a jury unanimously found him not guilty of murder.Corey D. Harris, a twenty-five-year-old, was acquitted after a grueling three-month trial...