Month: September 2017

Witnesses say a Tampa man beckoned a neighbor to his car, produced a firearm from within it, and fatally shot him.Authorities say Matthew and Susan Downey were standing outside of their home in Sun Bay South last weekend when Brian Joseph Baker signaled the couple to...

St. Petersburg police arrested a man last week whom they say committed two sexual assaults almost twenty years ago.Investigators say Terry Dewayne White's DNA was entered into the FBI's national database by another agency investigating a different set of crimes. St....

Postponed for several weeks on account of Labor Day and Hurricane Irma, the murder trial of a man accused of the killing of a police informant is scheduled to begin this week.Citrus County authorities say that Curtis Marco Wilson was involved with two other men in the...

A Lutz man arrested on suspicion of shooting to death another man allegedly told detectives that he did so to protect a woman the now-dead man had been abusing.Hillsborough deputies responded to a report of a wounded man Thursday afternoon near the home of Joshua...

A Tampa man was arrested in Orlando last week on suspicion of committing a double murder at a Clair-Mel filling station earlier in the week.Hillsborough County deputies say Raynald Joseph Lamothe is responsible for the killing on Tuesday of Dremaine Vashaun Johnson...

A four-hour standoff with police netted a New Tampa man aggravated assault charges last week after police say the man whom they feared may harm himself fired upon officers.Tampa police say they received a report last Wednesday afternoon that thirty-two-year-old Austin...

Pinellas County deputies say a St. Petersburg man and woman murdered the man for whom they both worked, then attempted to evade justice in South Florida.According to investigators, Jaritza Maribel Diaz and Christopher Lee Robertson II were hiding in a Homestead hotel...

St. Petersburg police say a domestic dispute turned deadly last Thursday when a woman allegedly gunned down her boyfriend at their shared residence.According to authorities, Megan Lewis and her live-in boyfriend Craig Cutson became embroiled in an argument on Thursday...

A Tampa resident has been picked up by authorities for the fourth time in under a year on suspicion of drunken driving.Hillsborough County deputies say Juan Gabriel Velasco-Arcos was witnessed by other drivers piloting his 2005 Chevrolet pick-up truck the wrong way...

Three Palm Beach County teens will be tried as adults on allegations that they are responsible for the murder of a professional mixed martial artist.Eighteen year olds Roberto Ortiz and Jace Swinton joined 16-year-old Summer Church in the Palm Beach County Jail as...