Three people worked together to break into seven vehicles in Hillsborough County, stealing a total of $765.46 in items, deputies say. ...more

July 17, 2008

LARGO -- With the help of police dogs, Pinellas County sheriff's deputies arrested four teenagers in a string of car burglaries Monday night and early today in Largo. ...more

July 15, 2008

Government Social Club Ongoing widespread staff wrongdoings and wrangling at county government suggest it is a well-endowed social club interrupted occasionally by work. Generously compensated people are paid by overtaxed citizens to be members of it. ...more

June 5, 2008

LAKE PLACID — A 20-year-old Lake Placid woman was fortunate she wasn't at home when a Lake Placid man arrived there, reportedly on a mission to "cut her and let her blood run." Jorge Severiano-Morales, 24, of Lake Placid, was booked Monday on charges of attempted murder, aggravated assault with intent to commit a felony, burglary of a dwelling, structure or conveyance while armed, criminal mischief less than $200 and cruelty toward a child – an act that could result in physical or mental injury. ...more

June 4, 2008

SEBRING — A Haines City man remained in Highlands County Jail in lieu of $29,750 bond after he was arrested and charged in three separate burglary cases in the Sebring area. Jason Richard Boone, 30, of 280 Dyson Road, arrested on warrants and charged with two counts of burglary of a structure or conveyance, two counts of criminal mischief, two counts of vehicle theft, one count of burglary of a dwelling and one count of petty theft. On May 21, he was extradited from the Polk County Jail to Highlands County. Detectives say that between the hours of 3 a.m. and 7 p.m. on Oct. 20, Boone entered three Sebring properties, one in the 6000 block of North Carolina Drive and two in the 700 and 800 block of Town and Country Boulevard. ...more

May 23, 2008

SEBRING — The Highlands County Sheriff's Office announced in a press release Tuesday that they have arrested a suspect in connection to a series of car fishing incidents in the Harder Hall and Sparta Road area. ...more

April 22, 2008

TAMPA - Two Polk County men were arrested in Volusia County Monday, accused of shooting at a truck on Interstate 4, the Volusia County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

February 25, 2008

How do you respond to emotional statements about coal mining that overstate reality? Many statements in the Tribune's Feb. 18 editorial ("Put An End To Mountaintop Mining") were simply false. ...more

February 25, 2008

TAMPA - Three people accused of taking items from an unlocked car on Tuesday were chased through downtown Lakeland by people who witnessed the incident until police arrived, authorities said. ...more

February 19, 2008

SEBRING — A Sebring man remained in Highlands County Jail in lieu of $150,000 bail Friday, charged in connection with a reported armed burglary, armed assault and kidnapping of a Sebring woman. Chad Anthony Martin, 27, of 7414 County Road 17 S., Sebring, was booked in Wednesday on charges of burglary of a dwelling, structure or conveyance while armed, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and kidnapping to commit or facilitate a felony. On Nov. 8, sheriff's investigators met with a Sebring woman who reported that at about 11 p.m. Nov. 7, in the 3000 block of Sparkling Drive, in Sebring, she heard a noise of her kitchen door opening. She looked out her bedroom door and spotted two people standing in her living room, the report stated. She locked the bedroom door and tried to get out through her laundry room door, which connected to her bedroom. As she tried to get out through her back porch, she reported she was grabbed by her hair by a man she knew only as Chad. ...more

February 2, 2008