A 32-year-old man is charged with robbery and trafficking in oxycodone after robbing a CVS Pharmacy in Oldsmar on Tuesday, authorities said. ...more

December 24, 2008

A Tampa General Hospital nurse is accused of taking blank prescriptions and using them to get oxycodone from several local pharmacies. ...more

December 17, 2008

The following people were booked Monday, Dec. 15 into the Highlands County Jail: ...more

December 17, 2008

Four people tried to sell 5,000 Ecstasy pills Friday for $25,000, Tampa police say. ...more

December 12, 2008

Three bouncers tried selling about a kilogram of cocaine to investigators for $20,000, Hillsborough County deputies say. They were in possession of two loaded semi-automatic pistols when they were arrested about 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at 223 9th St. N.E. in Ruskin, according to a criminal arrest affidavit. ...more

December 11, 2008

A Dover home was used to grow 144 marijuana plants, Hillsborough County deputies say. On Tuesday afternoon at 14607 Walden Sheffield Road, deputies found the plants being cultivated within a garage. The garage was equipped with marijuana grow equipment and powered by unmetered electricity, according to deputies. ...more

December 10, 2008

A Plant City home was used to grow 73 marijuana plants, Hillsborough County deputies say. Deputies used a search warrant Monday afternoon at 1109 E. Knights Griffin Road and found marijuana buds drying in one room and 73 plants in another. The room with the plants also had grow lights, a water system and an air conditioning unit. ...more

December 9, 2008

Christopher Che Delin withheld information from doctors several times this year in order to get oxycodone, methadone and Soma, Temple Terrace police say. ...more

November 21, 2008

TAMPA The search of a Riverview home Wednesday night led to the seizure of about 400 grams of methamphetamines, Hillsborough County deputies say. Deputies arrested Jose Suazo-Aviles and Maria Arguelles at 7:35 p.m. Wednesday at 12007 Glenshire Drive. ...more

November 20, 2008

A Tampa man agreed to deliver a gallon of the so-called date-rape drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid, or GHB, to an agent of the Tampa Police Department in exchange for steroids, police say. ...more

November 19, 2008