The detention deputy was sitting at his desk when the inmate attacked. The deputy is 64; the inmate is 40 years his junior. ...more

November 5, 2009

Three people are facing armed drug trafficking charges after investigators discovered a stash of cocaine, marijuana, morphine and Ecstasy in a house south of Gunn Highway, affidavits say. ...more

December 18, 2008

In a Highlands Today article dated Nov. 20 "Evidence Problem Spoiled Highlands Court Cases" it was reported that grow-house marijuana evidence in the Jose Miguel Rosales case was lost because of improper storage while in the custody of the sheriff. This caused the state attorney's office to have to reduce the drug trafficking charges against Rosales on "what should have been a solid case." ...more

November 29, 2008

An undercover narcotics sale led deputies to raid a Spring Hill drug house and seize two ounces of crack cocaine on Wednesday. ...more

May 22, 2008

The son of a Shady Hills couple found shot dead in their home Feb. 11 has been charged with two counts of premeditated murder, records show. ...more

February 22, 2008

TAMPA - Police charged a man and a woman with felony drug trafficking charges Thursday after finding a loaded shotgun, cocaine and ecstasy in a house in the Lowry Park area. ...more

December 28, 2007

TAMPA - A man who claimed his conviction on drug-trafficking charges was improper because he had a prescription for the pills police found in his truck pleaded guilty today to the lesser felony charge of possessing hydrocodone. ...more

November 15, 2007

Pinellas County detectives have arrested a Sarasota man on drug trafficking charges, saying he may have passed phony prescriptions in six other counties. ...more

October 28, 2007

Pinellas County detectives have arrested a Sarasota man on drug trafficking charges, saying he may have passed phony prescriptions in six other counties. ...more

October 27, 2007