An Oviedo man with ties to a drug scheme involving two former Pasco County Sheriff's Office employees entered a guilty plea Friday in U.S. District Court. ...more

August 23, 2008

A Pinellas County detention deputy facing drug and child pornography possession charges resigned today. ...more

August 14, 2008

A Pinellas County detention deputy arrested this month for possessing anabolic steroids and ecstasy has been arrested on new charges this afternoon – possession of child pornography, deputies say. ...more

August 13, 2008

A Pinellas County detention deputy has been arrested for possessing anabolic steroids and ecstasy, deputies say. ...more

August 6, 2008

Nick Bollea turns 18 on Sunday, and as a result he will be transferred from his juvenile quarters at the Pinellas County Jail to an adult section, Pinellas sheriff's spokeswoman Marianne Pasha said. ...more

July 24, 2008

LARGO - Nick Bollea turns 18 on Sunday, and as a result he will be transferred from his juvenile quarters at the Pinellas County Jail to an adult section, said Pinellas Sheriff's spokeswoman Marianne Pasha. ...more

July 23, 2008

On each side of his neck is a tattoo of a skull, and across his knuckles he had tattooed the expression, "Hard Luck," with a letter on each knuckle. To Pinellas sheriff's detention Deputy Aaron Simpson, his tattoos are an art form. To his bosses at the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office, they constitute a violation of the sheriff's uniform and appearance policy. As a result, the six-year veteran was suspended for three days. ...more

July 18, 2008

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- and possibly the American Civil Liberties Union -- is expected to attend the next meeting of the commission designed to independently review Hillsborough County's jail system, according to the commission's chairman. ...more

July 17, 2008

What Hillsborough County Jail Deputy Charlette Marshall-Jones did last January was an outrage. While searching a partially paralyzed man during booking, she dumped Brian Sterner out of his wheelchair, as casually as if he was a bag of dirty laundry. The Sheriff's Office quickly and rightly charged her with abusing the disabled, a third-degree felony that could bring up to a five-year sentence. ...more

July 8, 2008

SEBRING – A father who was mistakenly detained by sheriff's bailiffs who mistook him for his son is an angry man. He's angry that the mistake happened despite his insistence that they had the wrong man. He's even angrier that they didn't apologize after realizing their mistake. Wellington E. Clarke Jr., 47, of Sebring, said he was shocked to find himself handcuffed at the Highlands County Courthouse while he was there taking care of personal business June 12. "I went to court to collect back child support my ex owed," Clarke Jr. said. "The judge said, before you go, you've got unsettled business with the sheriff's office. Three, a lady and two men came up to me and said we've got a warrant." ...more

July 7, 2008