Lonnie Watts didn't want to go to jail, so used his car to strike one of the deputies trying to arrest him on a drug paraphernalia warrant early Friday morning, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

September 26, 2008

A Tampa woman landed in jail Monday after calling 911 while a Hillsborough County deputy was investigating a dispute at her house. ...more

September 23, 2008

Two arrests were made Thursday at the newly-opened Explorer K-8 school on Northcliffe Boulevard. ...more

September 19, 2008

Twin brothers remained in Highlands County Jail on Tuesday after sheriff's deputies reported finding handguns on them Sunday night while they sat at a picnic table on an empty lot on Vision Street in the Highway Park subdivision. ...more

September 16, 2008

Hillsborough County deputies said that even though they were nearby, Christopher Lee Hubbard made repeated phone calls to 911 "for no reason" Saturday night. So they arrested him. But Hubbard, 37, would not go quietly into a patrol car, deputies said. ...more

September 15, 2008

A teenager thought he was giving an acquaintance a lift Thursday, but instead the passenger stole his car from him at gunpoint, St. Petersburg police said. ...more

September 6, 2008

When a Pinellas County sheriff's deputy tried to stop a car early today, it took off and crashed into a telephone pole near an elementary school, authorities said. Two of the three occupants were arrested; investigators are looking for the third. ...more

September 5, 2008

A teenager thought he was giving an acquaintance a lift Thursday, but instead the passenger stole his car from him at gunpoint, St. Petersburg police said. The 2007 blue Chrysler Pacifica was later recovered, but the carjacker, whose identity remains unknown, has not been arrested, St. Petersburg police spokesman George Kajtsa said. ...more

September 5, 2008

NORTH PORT - Police arrested a North Port man for allegedly threatening to kill a Sarasota County sheriff's deputy last week. ...more

September 4, 2008

Two men were arrested Wednesday after a burglary scare led to lockdowns at Burnett Middle and McDonald Elementary schools in Seffner, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. The schools were locked down Wednesday after someone was found burglarizing a shed at 2382 Kingsway Road about 8 a.m., sheriff's spokeswoman Debbie Carter said. ...more

September 4, 2008