Vidal Mills asks a visitor to call before dropping by his Carver City home so a family member can hold the chained pit bull in the front yard at bay. ...more

October 28, 2008

The father of a teenager slain in his Tampa driveway says his family feels threatened because the case has not been resolved. ...more

October 27, 2008

Vidal Mills once said in a police report that he had no problem being arrested for defending his son. He finds himself in that situation again. ...more

October 24, 2008

The father of slain high school football player was arrested after authorities say he beat up a teen alleged to have bragged about the killing. ...more

October 23, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - A man accused of kidnapping and assaulting a woman in Tampa last month picked up a related sexual battery charge in Pasco County this week. ...more

October 17, 2008

Nelson Capestany had just bought a Slurpee at 7-Eleven and was waiting for the light to change at Moog Road and U.S. 19 when a man pointed a black and silver pistol at him and jumped into his car on the last day of August, according to a Pasco sheriff's office report. ...more

October 15, 2008

Nelson Capestany had just bought a Slurpee at 7-Eleven and was waiting for the light to change at Moog Road and U.S. 19 when a man pointed a black and silver pistol at him and jumped into his car on the last day of August. Now, that man – Javon Corzell Jones - is sitting in the Land O' Lakes Jail awaiting trial on charges of armed carjacking, armed robbery and false imprisonment. He was arrested in connection to the summer carjacking Monday at the jail where he's been since Sept. 11 on other charges. Sitting in the front passenger seat, Jones, 27, ordered Capestany to drive to a mobile home park off of Alternate U.S. 19 just after 4:30 a.m., according to a sheriff's office report, and made him go inside the home. ...more

October 14, 2008

An Oregon man was booked into the Pinellas County Jail Monday afternoon on a 24-year-old accusation of trying to force himself upon a man in a car, according to court records. ...more

October 14, 2008

Authorities say a Port St. Lucie man bound a woman's hands and taped her mouth shut, claiming he only wanted to make her listen. ...more

October 14, 2008

Five teens accused in the videotaped beating of a Polk County cheerleader were due in court today but attorneys asked the judge to continue the proceeding until Nov. 18. Mercades Nichols, 17, Brittini Hardcastle, 17, April Cooper, 14, Britney Mayes, 17, and Kayla Hassell, 15, were scheduled for pretrial hearings this morning at the Polk County courthouse in Bartow. Their attorneys told Judge Keith Spoto they needed to delay the proceeding because of depositions set for later this month. The judge granted the requests. ...more

October 7, 2008