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A Pinellas County Sheriff's deputy avoided prison time after pleading guilty to attempted manslaughter last week.Timothy G. Virden was sentenced to three years of probation last week after entering his guilty plea in connection with a shooting in a December 2015...
A Jacksonville man was sentenced to pay the ultimate price last week after a Duval County jury convicted him of rape and murder.In February, Donald James Smith was convicted in the 2013 rape and murder of Cherish Perrywinkle, an 8-year-old girl authorities say Smith...
Previously in jail for unrelated drug charges, a Tampa man was re-arrested last week and charged with murder in connection with the death of an Osceola County woman.Tampa police say James Leon "Bo" Jackson is the culprit responsible for the September death of Diana...
DNA evidence was the key that unlocked the door of a Florida prison cell for a man who served 17 years for a murder he maintains he didn't commit.Last Tuesday evening Dwight "D.D." DuBose was released from Hillsborough County Jail to breathe the first free breath he's...
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...
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...
Tampa authorities say the man allegedly responsible for a fatal car accident eluded their grasp for almost three months before they were finally caught up with him.Per Tampa police, Jeff Desange and Jorey G. Christophe were engaged in illegal street racing in the...
