A Polk County sheriff's detention lieutenant was charged with driving under the influence this morning after deputies saw his car swerving and hitting curbs on Cypress Gardens Boulevard in Winter Haven, authorities said. ...more

November 18, 2008

I am appalled that when reading the Hernando Today this week about the Hernando County Sheriff's Office finance director being involved in an accident that was purely a cover-up and, rest assured, that it goes much deeper than the two deputies at the scene. ...more

July 20, 2008

SEBRING — Sheriff Susan Benton accepted a letter of resignation Monday from a deputy who was charged in April by the U.S. Coast Guard with intoxicated operation of a vessel, while boating in a Pine Island canal. Former deputy Craig Skipper reportedly took an excursion in his boat on April 18, when he was stopped by the U.S. Coast Guard after a complaint was filed. Coast guard officials reported Skipper appeared intoxicated but he refused twice to take a sobriety test, an investigation report by Sheriff's Internal Affairs Officer Lt. Gus Garcia stated. The agency received a complaint that the boat was "operating on plane" (speeding) in a no wake zone and that the boat operator was "exposing himself," Garcia's report stated. ...more

June 24, 2008

TAMPA - Deputies arrested a 50-year-old woman on Sunday driving with a blood-alcohol reading almost five times the level at which Florida law presumes a driver impaired, according to an arrest report. ...more

June 23, 2008

A Polk County sheriff's deputy was arrested on a charge of driving under the influence after he was found passed out behind the wheel of his personal vehicle early this morning, the sheriff's office said. ...more

June 15, 2008

Jessica Alba and her boyfriend, producer Cash Warren, are expecting their first child. ...more

December 13, 2007

Shia LaBeouf was charged with misdemeanor criminal trespassing after the "Transformers" star refused to leave a Chicago drugstore, police said Sunday. ...more

November 5, 2007