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A St. Petersburg man is one of seventeen defendants facing charges of mortgage fraud stemming from loans taken out on condominiums on Florida's west coast.Carlos Mesa, Jr. is accused by attorneys from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida of...
Almost thirty years after the crime was committed, a 67-year-old Ohio man was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of allegedly murdering a Lake Alfred woman.Carl Junior McCauley was sentenced to life in prison in a Polk County courtroom last Thursday. He...
A former Michigan law enforcement officer was arrested last Wednesday, accused of shooting to death a cook at an Oldsmar bar and restaurant.Deputies of the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office say Brian Paul Mytych shot David Brown early Wednesday morning, possibly...
A pair of Tampa brothers have been charged with crimes related to a murder committed last November.Hillsborough County authorities allege that Lewis James Scott, Jr. and his younger brother James Luis "Snoop" Scott are responsible for murdering Clair-Mel's Evelyn...
Sentenced to life in prison as a teenager, Floyd Victor LaFountain became a free man on Friday, thanks to a series of Supreme Court decisions regarding sentencing of juveniles.LaFountain was sixteen when he ran away from his home in central Massachusetts. Accompanied...
Jury selection began on Tuesday in the retrial of a St. Petersburg man whose original first-degree murder trial in 2015 ended in a hung jury. Pinellas county prosecutors say that Oscar Freemond Fowler fired more than twenty rounds into the body of Naykee Bostic in...
The main suspect in a fatal shooting turned himself in to officers of the St. Petersburg Police Department last week. Chaz Ezekiel Bynum, of St. Petersburg, was wanted in the slaying of Emmanuel Isaiah Sims. The alleged incident took place at approximately half past...
