Police arrested a suspect in the armed robbery of the Cindy's Hallmark greeting card store Monday, in the Sebring Square shopping center. ...more

September 16, 2008

A Tampa man brought about $21,000 to a meeting with an undercover Tampa police officer Wednesday night to buy a kilogram of cocaine, police say. ...more

August 21, 2008

A 22-year-old St. Petersburg man was arrested Wednesday after he pulled a gun on a man he did not know was an undercover narcotics detective with the Pinellas sheriff's office, sheriff's officials said this morning. ...more

August 21, 2008

No traffic stop is routine. It was 10:45 p.m. Tuesday when police officer Adam Willis stopped a white Mercury traveling 57 mph in a 45 mph zone at U.S. 27 North and Kingdom Way. ...more

August 8, 2008

A shooting Tuesday at Lakeland Square mall - which left one man wounded, another arrested and patrons scrambling for cover from .25-caliber bullets - was the result of a gang battle between the Crips and the Bloods, police said. ...more

June 19, 2008

AVON PARK — A suspect in the 2001 stabbing murder of a Lake Placid man remained in Highlands County Jail without bond Monday after he was extradited from Madison County. Juan Tirso Perez, now 26, also known as Juan Tirso Marin and Juan Tirso Marin-Perez, was booked in at 9 p.m. Friday on a charge of second-degree murder as a suspect in the stabbing death of Sergio Jose Morales, according to sheriff's central records. According to the arrest narrative, it was about 12:30 a.m. Feb. 19, 2001, when Morales was stabbed to death in his trailer home at 303 Highlands Blvd., in Lake Placid. ...more

June 2, 2008

LAKE PLACID — A Lake Placid man remained in Highlands County Jail without bond Monday on a charge of attempted second-degree murder in the May 11 shooting of a Lake Placid man. Sheriff's investigators arrested Matwain Donyel Bryant, 24, of 149 Zion St., a suspect in the shooting of Sherman Murray Wyche, 26, who was shot six times in the leg and back outside of the Highway Park Liquors, located at 101 Vision St. near Crestmore Drive, in the Highway Park subdivision. "Due to the number of shots fired, it is apparent the perpetrator was attempting to kill the victim," the arrest report stated. ...more

May 19, 2008

Glen Powell came to the courthouse prepared. He was armed with a .45-caliber handgun, 71 extra rounds of ammunition, a gas mask and a long-blade knife. ...more

May 9, 2008

St. PETERSBURG - Glen Powell, the man killed in a gunbattle with two bailiffs at the downtown courthouse Wednesday, had 71 more rounds of ammunition in his backpack, sheriff's authorities said today. ...more

May 8, 2008

A man threatened a 6-year-old boy playing with a plastic soda bottle during the Super Bowl, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

February 5, 2008