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A Tampa woman is awaiting sentencing on a conviction of fraud and money-laundering charges relating to her alleged participation in a multi-million dollar Medicare fraud scheme.Pilar Garcia Lorenzo was convicted by a jury of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and...
Corey Rocker turned eighteen in prison, convicted of a murder in which he never touched the weapon used in it. He turned twenty one and twenty five there, too, and marked his twenty-sixth birthday there this spring, knowing nothing but the gray cinder block walls of...
Staring a life sentence in federal prison in the face, a St. Petersburg man is now awaiting sentencing on lesser crimes after a jury unanimously found him not guilty of murder.Corey D. Harris, a twenty-five-year-old, was acquitted after a grueling three-month trial...
Leo Schofield was convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to life in prison in 1989. Almost three decades later another man has come forward claiming responsibility for the murder and has filed a motion with the relevant court asking to go on the record with his...
Florida's 2nd District Court of Appeal ordered a new trial for George Shrader on Wednesday, thirty years after the body of the woman he was originally convicted of murdering was first discovered in southern Hillsborough county.Shrader, who celebrated his fiftieth...
An unarmed Tampa man was mortally wounded by a Hillsborough county sheriff's deputy on Tuesday morning in the course of serving a warrant in the Clair-Mel area.The Hillsborough Sheriff's SWAT team arrived around 8 A.M. at a home near S 78th Street and Palm River Road...
A Clearwater man charged in the murder of a woman whose body was found near the Fred Marquis Pinellas Trail was released on Friday after prosecutors dropped the charges against him.Dewayne Jones, who turned 20 almost two months ago in the Pinellas County Jail, was...
One elementary school music teacher is dead and another is in critical condition after allegedly being struck by a drunk driver early Sunday morning.Pinellas Park Police say that Bryce McCloud, a 36-year old man from St. Petersburg, was driving a new Toyota Corolla...
A man on the run from Hillsborough County authorities for almost six years was apprehended in Matamoros, Mexico by officials from the Department of Homeland Security last week.Mario Sanchez Mercado, 27, was apprehended by Mexican authorities in the city just opposite...
A Tampa man who has been wanted in connection with allegedly killing another in a drunken wrong-way driving wreck in 2012 was arrested last week on the southern coast of Spain, 4,600 miles away. Authorities allege that Christopher Ponce (aged 22 at the time) drove his...
