For the second time in less than two weeks, an Avon Park police officer was arrested by agents from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement's Sebring field office. ...more

December 3, 2008

Authorities say a 24-year-old St. Petersburg man died after he fled during an attempted traffic stop and crashed into a tree. ...more

November 23, 2008

Garrey Deon Gibson continued resisting arrest Tuesday night even after being zapped by a Taser, Hillsborough County deputies say. About 9:50 p.m. at Symmes Road and North Street in Gibsonton, deputies conducted a traffic stop on Gibson. They saw him put a green leafy substance into his mouth, and they believed it was marijuana. ...more

November 19, 2008

Death penalty cases, by their very nature, are significantly different court proceedings than, say, a drug trafficking case. ...more

November 19, 2008

AVON PARK What started as a traffic stop for speeding ended with three men being arrested for allegedly trying to destroy cannabis evidence by eating it. ...more

November 7, 2008

SEBRING Three people remained in jail Thursday after their Wednesday arrest following the discovery of a meth lab. ...more

November 7, 2008

Cpl. William Hughes took 19 Oxycodone tablets from a woman during an unrecorded traffic stop, according to a notice of disciplinary hearing signed by Hughes. ...more

November 7, 2008

Cpl. William Hughes took 19 Oxycodone tablets from a woman during an unrecorded traffic stop, according to a notice of disciplinary hearing signed by Hughes. ...more

November 6, 2008

A Pinellas sheriff's detention deputy was arrested Tuesday night on a charge of drunken driving, the sheriff's office said. ...more

November 5, 2008

A 12-year veteran of the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office has resigned after a departmental investigation found he took prescription drugs from a woman during an unrecorded traffic stop. ...more

November 5, 2008