Month: November 2017

A suburban Jacksonville teen was apprehended at the Canadian border last week allegedly fleeing after county authorities suspect him of killing his grandmother.U.S. Customs and Border Protection detained Neptune Beach resident Logan Tyler Mott as he attempted to cross...

A Brandon man has been charged with vehicular homicide for a death they say he caused in the course of a head-on car collision.The Hillsborough State Attorney's Office charged 23-year-old Jacob Robin Albarracin with a single count of vehicular homicide last week....

A Plant City man will be spending the next 110 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to conspiring to traffic cocaine on behalf of a Mexican drug cartel in 2016.According to federal prosecutors, Joseph Rumore was a significant distributor of drugs for the...

Pinellas Park Police say a woman they observed driving on a tire rim turned out to be a second-grade teacher who was in possession of cocaine.Officers say they spotted the vehicle at the intersection of Park Boulevard and 49th Street early last Sunday morning and...

A St. Petersburg man was arrested last week after authorities say he drove the wrong way while intoxicated on the Courtney Campbell Causeway and initiated a wreck that injured a handful of people.Police say that Collin John Cole piloted his Ford F-150 light truck the...

A Pasco County jury took less than three hours to find a Hudson man guilty of a quadruple murder three years ago.Adam Matos told jurors that self-defense and paranoia compelled him to kill Greg Brown, his wife Margaret, their daughter Megan, and her boyfriend Nick...

The state of Florida put to death the third individual of the year last week when it carried out the death sentence given to Patrick Charles Hannon on Wednesday.Florida corrections officials ended Hannon's life at ten minutes to nine o'clock that evening, strapped to...

A Sanford man arrested in Pinellas County has been charged with murder in relation to the death of a woman in DeBary.Deputies were dispatched to the home of Lisa Bresie last Sunday afternoon on a welfare check. Once inside, deputies say they discovered the 51-year-old...

A St. Petersburg man is facing DUI manslaughter charges after troopers say he caused a fatal crash on Interstate 275.According to FHP troopers, Malo Blackshear was driving southbound on I-275 in his Mercedes-Benz sedan early on the morning of Halloween at a high rate...

A Brandon man is languishing in the Sarasota County Jail after authorities there accused him of murdering his girlfriend and attempting to burn her remains.Sarasota County deputies were dispatched to a vehicle fire on I-75 near Osprey in mid-October whereupon they...