What Hillsborough County Jail Deputy Charlette Marshall-Jones did last January was an outrage. While searching a partially paralyzed man during booking, she dumped Brian Sterner out of his wheelchair, as casually as if he was a bag of dirty laundry. The Sheriff's Office quickly and rightly charged her with abusing the disabled, a third-degree felony that could bring up to a five-year sentence. ...more

July 8, 2008

TAMPA Hillsborough County Sheriff David Gee wants employees to reduce fuel use in sheriff's office vehicles by at least 10 percent. In a June 17 memorandum, Gee told employees that the reduction is necessary due to rising gas prices and a murky budget outlook. He also asked employees to use the least expensive fuel possible. "Voluntary reduction is the first step to reduce our costs, which amounts to several million dollars each year," Gee wrote. "More drastic steps may be required in the future to ensure that we are able to fulfill our highest priorities, however, voluntary assistance from each of you can go a long way to avoid those measures." ...more

July 3, 2008

TAMPA - Investigators are looking for the owner of a car found overturned and abandoned this morning near railroad tracks at State Road 60 and Skywood Drive in Valrico, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. ...more

June 26, 2008

Sheriff David Gee and Clerk of Court Pat Frank each secured another four-year term Friday when the deadline passed for candidates to qualify to run, and nobody vied for their seats. ...more

June 21, 2008

More than 1,200 people, including scores of teenagers from across the state, are in downtown Tampa for the 23rd National Conference on Preventing Crime in the Black Community. ...more

June 21, 2008

More than 1,200 people, including scores of teenagers from across the state, are in downtown Tampa for the 23rd National Conference on Preventing Crime in the Black Community. ...more

June 20, 2008

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second in an occasional series profiling South Shore residents. ...more

June 18, 2008

Just like that and there is a hole in your stomach and you think you are dead. ...more

June 11, 2008

Behind the wheel of his red pickup with a .45-caliber handgun at his side, Jorge Orlando Bello Garcia cruised back and forth in front of his estranged wife's Carrollwood home. ...more

June 8, 2008

TAMPA - At least two men and two women are dead, and two Hillsborough County deputies are wounded after a pair of related shootouts in the Carrollwood area, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said today. ...more

June 7, 2008