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Pasco County deputies say a man who claims to have difficulty handling rejection reacted negatively to unrequited love last week, leading to the stabbing death of his roommate.Warren Joseph Birkbeck was arrested last Wednesday after authorities say he stabbed roommate...
Already serving a sentence for allegedly engaging in a similar scheme, a Tampa man received almost a decade more to serve in federal prison last week for a new conviction on charges of investment fraud.Anthony J. Klatch Jr. stood before U.S. District Judge James D....
A Palm Harbor oncologist was sentenced to almost six years in federal prison after being convicted of fraudulent charges to Medicare for unapproved overseas cancer medications.Dr. Diana Anda Norbergs will remain free while her case is appealed. According to federal...
Authorities say a drug deal gone bad led to a fatal shooting at an apartment complex in the North Tampa neighborhood last week.Tampa police arrested Alexeis Perez whom they say killed Antonio Roman around midday last Wednesday. According to police, Perez traveled to...
A Tampa man with a significant history in the Florida prison system was arrested last week, accused of a shooting death at a Busch Gardens hotel.Tampa police arrested Christopher Lee Carithers in front of an East Tampa residence on Thursday after tips from the Florida...
Evidently developing a rage that turned murderous, a Seminole woman was arrested late last week after authorities say she plunged a knife into her husband's chest, killing him.Fifty-one-year-old Mary Georgia Pender-Michielson of unincorporated Seminole dialed 9-1-1...
The former chief financial officer of a private agency dedicated to helping the mentally disabled will be spending two years in federal prison for allegedly illegally diverting Social Security payments from individuals under their care.Frank Pannullo was also...
The Tampa Police Department arrested a man last week they say is responsible for the death of a motorcyclist last November.Authorities accuse Nelson Froilan Massanet-Beltran of being inebriated when he was driving down Sheldon Road on a November evening last year. The...
Little is known about the circumstances that led to the alleged attack, but Tampa police say that an armed altercation between a man and his girlfriend left her dead and him the perpetrator of her murder.Officers of the TPD were called to an East Tampa convenience...
A now-former employee of the city of Gainesville is facing felony fraud charges after an investigation uncovered instances of her allegedly spending city funds on, among other things, buttock augmentation surgery.Initially described as a competent employee who was...
