Month: December 2016

A home at the end of Pine Lake Drive is worse for the wear after a Tampa woman allegedly struck it with her vehicle last week.Officers of the Tampa Police Department say Danica Ellen Zagara had already been involved in one accident before arriving in the living room...

An uncle and his nephew have agreed to plead guilty to federal drug trafficking charges based upon allegations by the Drug Enforcement Administration that their Plant City business was a front for a Mexican drug distribution operation.According to authorities, Saul...

A term filled with death-penalty rulings sees another such decision, as the Florida Supreme Court handed down a decision retaining the death sentences of almost two hundred prisoners whose sentencing occurred prior to the summer of 2002.Two rulings handed down today...

A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a Tampa man after the battered body of a woman was discovered in a Clair-Mel ditch.On the first day of November an individual riding a horse in the area of 20th Avenue S and 58th Street came across the body of...

Detectives from the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office have been sent over eight hundred miles to the west to retrieve the prime suspect in a murder committed earlier this week.Forty-three-year-old Keith Earl Davis was apprehended in Sulphur, Louisiana yesterday,...

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office is seeking to obtain almost $45,000 in funds its deputies discovered in the course of a raid upon the Plant City home of a man alleged to have been engaged in the sale of illegal drugs.A filing in state court late last week...

A Holiday teenager will be facing adult first-degree felony murder charges, as Pasco County authorities say he battered and robbed a neighbor who died shortly thereafter.Fourteen-year-old Alexander Perez was indicted by a grand jury December 9 for a beating and...

Broken toilets. No hot water. Rows of broken showers. Inoperative heating systems. Cell windows stuck shut. A nearly deafening exhaust fan. This is what greeted Miami Beach Rep. David Richardson when he visited the Columbia Correctional Institution in Lake City last...

An undercover drug sting during the dinner rush at a local fast-food restaurant went bad Tuesday evening, as Hillsborough County Sheriff's deputies shot two suspects, wounding one mildly and the other critically.According to authorities, undercover officers met with...

A Seffner woman was released from federal custody today but is all but certain to face state charges for actions she's alleged to have committed leading up to her custody in the federal prison system.Cortnee Nicole Brantley was freed from a federal halfway house...