Pasco County sheriff's deputies arrested two people Saturday on grand theft and burglary charges after an early-morning traffic stop. ...more

February 11, 2008

A man who tried a "he went that way" maneuver with police late Tuesday found it had backfired when officers placed him at the scene of a burglary through an electronic monitoring device on his ankle, police said. ...more

January 10, 2008

TAMPA - A man who tried a "he went that way" maneuver with police late Tuesday found it backfired when officers placed him at the scene of a burglary through an electronic monitoring device on his ankle, police said. ...more

January 9, 2008

When David Simon was released from prison in November, he got $100 and a bus ticket home to East Tampa. ...more

January 7, 2008

Tampa police homicide detectives have returned from Valdosta, Ga., where they interviewed a mother of toddler twins and the man accused of shooting her husband to death Friday. ...more

December 9, 2007

Georgia authorities have found the missing mother of toddler twins whose husband was shot to death Friday and have arrested the man accused of killing her husband, Tampa police said late Saturday. ...more

December 9, 2007

Tampa police say Georgia authorities have arrested Timothy Blackwelder and have Brittani Stewart in custody. Stewart is the mother of toddler twins and police say Blackwelder shot and killed her husband. Investigators think Stewart left her home at 910 W. Sitka Street after Timothy Craig Blackwelder, 24, shot and killed her husband, George Anthony Stewart Jr., Friday afternoon. The circumstances of her disappearance are not clear. ...more

December 8, 2007

The Pasco County Sheriff's Office has charged a 27-year old man with arson and burglary after a fire at a vacant mobile home Friday evening. ...more

November 24, 2007

SEBRING — A St. Petersburg woman was sentenced Monday afternoon to three and a half years in prison for attempting to pass counterfeit checks at area businesses last fall. Jessica Elena Garcia, 22, who entered a guilty plea last May to charges of grand theft, possession of counterfeit payment instruments and forgery, received the three-year sentence after prosecutors told Judge Peter Estrada that she was willing to cooperate with them if her co-defendant's case would've gone to trial. Michael Anthony Rosales, of Zolfo Springs, and Garcia were arrested last November after Sebring Police Cpl. Vivian Buck questioned them. Rosales allegedly supplied Garcia with a counterfeit check for $465 to cash at L & M Food Store, located at 1411 Roseland Ave. Garcia was previously in prison on grand theft and burglary charges in Hardee County, and had only been free for 28 days before her arrest with Rosales. Because of parole violations following her Sebring arrest, Garcia received a 44-month prison sentence in Hardee, which Estrada used to sentence her consecutively for the bogus check charges. Because of Garcia's willingness to cooperate with state attorneys, Rosales entered a guilty plea last week at the Highlands County Courthouse and received a 10-year prison sentence from Estrada. ...more

October 30, 2007

He was busted before he really got started. Hours after a Winn-Dixie employee last week discovered a tool bag containing a battery-operated saw, drill, bolt cutters, pipe wrench and other tools and about 100 feet of rope atop the building, a man climbed to the roof. ...more

October 24, 2007