Police say they arrested a Sebring man for felony battery Friday after a 7-year-old girl alerted a librarian at the Sebring City Library that her mother and boyfriend were fighting. ...more

October 21, 2009

What is Highlands County drug abusers' poison of choice? According to Capt. Randy LaBelle, with the Highlands County Sheriff's Office's Special Investigations Unit (SIU), it's prescription medications. ...more

October 21, 2009

A Panama City Beach toddler is in critical condition after having a nail removed from her fractured skull and her parents are in jail on drug and child abuse charges. ...more

October 2, 2009

A deputy checking on a stranded motorist Monday came away with three grams of methamphetamine. ...more

August 18, 2009

Polk County sheriff's deputies reported Saturday that they found a homemade bomb, a 12-foot boa constrictor and a variety of guns when they broke up a north Lakeland methamphetamine lab on Friday. ...more

June 28, 2009

Pills, phony bills and bogus prescriptions were found today in the pockets of a Lakeland man accused of counterfeiting U.S. currency, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

June 11, 2009

The following people were booked Wednesday, May 27 into the Highlands County Jail: ...more

May 29, 2009

Woman hides a pickled sausage in her pants, walks out the store, deputies say ...more

May 19, 2009

Deputies say a man brought crystal meth into the county jail Tuesday ...more

May 6, 2009

A Lakeland man taken to a hospital after his arrest Tuesday morning tried to escape, but he was rearrested after being found on hospital property, Polk County deputies say. ...more

April 1, 2009