Month: April 2018

Hillsborough County authorities say a drug deal gone wrong led to a fatal shooting earlier this month for which a Riverview man is now facing murder charges.Deputies say social media connected Samuel Shane Morrissey, Jr. and Grover Willis on April 15. Willis was in...

Initially sought for arrest on a warrant for firearms and making threats, a Tampa man allegedly wounded an arresting officer before being taken into custody.Tampa Police Department officers arrived at the home of Walter Richard "Richie" Jeziorski III early on March 19...

Troopers of the Florida Highway Patrol say a man who allegedly killed a motorcyclist and rider earlier this month has a pair of prior convictions for drunk driving in his past.On the evening of April 15, Kerry "Jason" Webb was riding his Suzuki motorcycle with his...

A Tampa man who was a minor when he allegedly killed a classmate will spend the rest of his natural life in a Florida prison after a Hillsborough County jury found him guilty of first-degree murder.Tampa authorities say the problems began when David Alexander Brunson...

St. Petersburg officials say a well-tenured employee of the county's jobs agency stole thousands of dollars in gift cards from the agency for her own personal use.Danielle Robertson stands accused by Pinellas County prosecutors of stealing $6,700 from gift cards from...

Within moments of leaving a Hillsborough County courtroom on a related charge of evidence tampering, a Tampa man was cuffed and hustled back to the county jail to face second-degree murder charges.Tyler Chase Bardin is accused by Hillsborough County authorities of...

The first of four men charged in the murder of a wheelchair-bound octogenarian was sentenced to life in prison late last week, with the jury deliberating slightly more than an hour on the case.Allegedly acting upon information he received from his half-sister through...

St. Petersburg Police say an argument at a local establishment turned deadly when a man introduced a semi-automatic rifle into the mix.Authorities allege an altercation began at an establishment suspected by some in the Historic Roser Park neighborhood as being a...

A Clearwater firefighter found himself arrested on suspicion of drunk driving last week after a passer-by alerted authorities to a motorist apparently unresponsive at the wheel.Pinellas authorities received reports in the early evening of April 10 that a man was...

Authorities say that an altercation that started with a careless spit escalated into a fatal road-rage incident on Fowler Avenue last week.Witnesses told Tampa police that the situation began when Gilbert Serna, the passenger in a truck driven by Jeffrey Hunter,...