Roy Paz employs many skills as a veteran Tampa police officer, but the training that gives him the most joy and keeps him in tip-top condition happens on a skating rink. ...more

November 4, 2009

A Clearwater man is accused of raping and imprisoning a woman in his home Wednesday, public safety spokeswoman Elizabeth Watts said. Juan Costa, 612 S. Duncan Ave., was charged with false imprisonment and sexual battery. He was taken to the Pinellas County Jail and is being held with bail set at $60,000. ...more

July 9, 2009

The Pasco County sheriff's SWAT team has surrounded a home near Port Richey this afternoon and is trying to talk a man into coming outside, authorities said. ...more

May 9, 2009

Authorities are still seeking two people suspected of robbing a trio of businesses. ...more

March 31, 2009

Deputies defused a four-hour standoff with a man at a home on the 12000 block of Rock Duck Road by deploying a "light chemical irritant," the sheriff's office says. ...more

March 24, 2009

An incident that led to a man being fatally shot by two Polk County sheriff's deputies began following an unreported burglary, deputies say. At 1:41 a.m. Sunday, deputies came to 128 Idaho Ave. for a reported shooting. They determined two people had fought and exchanged gunfire, leaving the scene before deputies came. ...more

March 24, 2009

Two Polk County Sheriff's deputies shot and killed a man who they said pointed a 9-mm pistol at them outside an apartment near Lakeland early Sunday morning. ...more

March 23, 2009

The Polk County Sheriff's Office is investigating a fatal shooting of a man by a deputy that happened early this morning. ...more

March 22, 2009

A Pasco County Sheriff's Office deputy was cleared of wrongdoing in the shooting death of a suspected drug dealer who had opened fire on the sheriff's SWAT team. ...more

March 14, 2009

A Pasco County Sheriff's Office deputy was cleared of wrongdoing in the shooting death of a suspected drug dealer who had opened fire on the sheriff's SWAT team. ...more

March 13, 2009