The drying room at the Highlands County Sheriff's Office is filled with 62 seven-foot tall marijuana plants with an estimated weight of 550 pounds and a value of $420,000. ...more

October 10, 2008

Deputies with the Highland County Sheriff's Office seized 70 cannabis plants, valued around $420,000, from a grow-house off Parkland Avenue in Lake Placid late Wednesday afternoon. ...more

October 8, 2008

Highlands County Sheriff's Office deputies did not find marijuana plants inside a grow house but, instead, buried in five three-foot deep shallow graves. ...more

October 8, 2008

Two Sebring men were free on bail Wednesday, after sheriff's investigators say their fingerprints and palm prints were found inside of separate marijuana grow houses taken down in June and July by the sheriff's Special Investigations Unit. ...more

September 4, 2008

A Lake Placid man appears to be the only fatality in Highlands County as a result of Tropical Storm Fay. ...more

August 21, 2008

A Lake Placid man's death appears to be the only Tropical Storm Fay-related fatality in Highlands County and in Florida. ...more

August 20, 2008

A diesel semi caught fire and closed a northbound lane of U.S. 27 Monday morning. The driver, Larry Crews, was not injured in the incident as he stopped his truck in the turning lane near the Sparta Road intersection at 8:29 a.m. ...more

August 5, 2008

A Lake Placid man was free on $3,000 bail Friday after deputies say he was arrested when they found him asleep with his wife and two young children in the same room and a silver tray with some marijuana within the children's reach. ...more

August 4, 2008

Police Det. Dan Burke retrieved three stolen purses from the Polk County Sheriff's Office, recovered recently in a bag on the roadside by a county cleanup crew near the Florida's Natural juice plant in Lake Wales. ...more

July 26, 2008

LAKE PLACID – A well-known handcyclist and his wife were arrested Thursday morning after Highlands County Sheriff's Special Investigations Unit detectives say they served a search warrant on his Lake Placid home and found a large quantity of marijuana. ...more

July 3, 2008