After his older brother was fatally shot in what appeared to be a random carjacking, Dar Chanthavong was too grief-stricken to join his family whenever they pleaded in front of television cameras for information in the killing. ...more

June 24, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - After his older brother was fatally shot in what appeared to be a random carjacking, Dar Chanthavong was too grief-stricken to join his family whenever they pleaded in front of television cameras for information in the killing. Then last November, Chanthavong's mother, a nursing assistant who single-handedly raised $20,000 in reward money, died of brain cancer, less than two months after she was diagnosed. Sompong Chanthavong was the family member who worked most furiously to see that her son's killer was brought to justice, sometimes haranguing investigators for their failure to do so. Now her youngest son, Dar, has taken up the mantle. ...more

June 23, 2008

A man who thought he was selling his flat-screen television Tuesday instead was held at gunpoint then had his home theater equipment and car stolen, according to an arrest affidavit. ...more

June 19, 2008

SEBRING — In Sebring Police Sgt. Mike Warner's own words, the police "beat the bushes for hours" Saturday looking for a suspect linked to a carjacking and robbery that morning. A man smacked a woman to the ground, snatched her car keys and drove off with a 2000 Chevy Cavalier shortly after 9 a.m. Saturday. About eight minutes later, a car matching that description was used as the getaway vehicle after a man, matching the description of the suspect in the previous carjacking, snatched a purse out of a 72-year-old woman's lap as she sat in a car. "That's the type of crime I won't stand for," Warner said in a phone interview Sunday. ...more

June 15, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - A man and two teenagers were arrested this morning after they robbed a St. Petersburg Times deliveryman, taking his minivan, and led police on a pursuit, St. Petersburg police say. ...more

May 29, 2008

TAMPA - Two men wanted in connection with a fatal shooting during a robbery in Plant City on Thursday turned themselves in to authorities. ...more

May 4, 2008

BRADENTON – A 58-year-old old female cab driver managed to escape two male carjackers by using a spray gun to fend them off at a carwash, according to deputies. ...more

February 25, 2008

BRADENTON - A Sarasota woman was carjacked by a man who had been begging her for money outside a Bradenton Home Depot this morning, Manatee County deputies say. ...more

February 10, 2008

A man and his girlfriend were tracked and arrested on Tuesday in Pinellas Park in the theft of a rental car in Michigan last week, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. ...more

January 30, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - After a man picked up a hitchhiker Tuesday night, the hitchhiker pulled out a handgun at a gas station and took the man's car, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. ...more

January 30, 2008