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A Holiday man is accused of driving while impaired by cannabis after he allegedly struck and killed a cyclist in Hudson last week. Twenty-five-year-old Ali Hassan Hazime was driving his 2007 Ford Explorer south on U.S. 19 last Sunday evening when officers of the...
A twenty-six-year veteran of the U.S. Navy was arrested and charged with arson and insurance fraud last week after investigators say he set fire to his home in order to claim insurance benefits. Lieutenant Nolen John Zander's home caught fire on St. Patrick's Day in...
A St. Petersburg man is one of seventeen defendants facing charges of mortgage fraud stemming from loans taken out on condominiums on Florida's west coast.Carlos Mesa, Jr. is accused by attorneys from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida of...
Almost thirty years after the crime was committed, a 67-year-old Ohio man was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of allegedly murdering a Lake Alfred woman.Carl Junior McCauley was sentenced to life in prison in a Polk County courtroom last Thursday. He...
A former Michigan law enforcement officer was arrested last Wednesday, accused of shooting to death a cook at an Oldsmar bar and restaurant.Deputies of the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office say Brian Paul Mytych shot David Brown early Wednesday morning, possibly...
A pair of Tampa brothers have been charged with crimes related to a murder committed last November.Hillsborough County authorities allege that Lewis James Scott, Jr. and his younger brother James Luis "Snoop" Scott are responsible for murdering Clair-Mel's Evelyn...
Sentenced to life in prison as a teenager, Floyd Victor LaFountain became a free man on Friday, thanks to a series of Supreme Court decisions regarding sentencing of juveniles.LaFountain was sixteen when he ran away from his home in central Massachusetts. Accompanied...
A Tampa man expired in the course of an arrest by the St. Petersburg Police Wednesday morning.According to reports, officers were attempting to arrest Joshua George Dove, a thirty-five-year-old homeless man on a sidewalk on Fifth Avenue North near a homeless shelter....
A home at the end of Pine Lake Drive is worse for the wear after a Tampa woman allegedly struck it with her vehicle last week.Officers of the Tampa Police Department say Danica Ellen Zagara had already been involved in one accident before arriving in the living room...
An uncle and his nephew have agreed to plead guilty to federal drug trafficking charges based upon allegations by the Drug Enforcement Administration that their Plant City business was a front for a Mexican drug distribution operation.According to authorities, Saul...
