According to a humorous story in today’s St. Petersburg Times, a St. Pete resident, who was arrested on charges of Felony Battery and DUI early Friday morning, made the following last-ditch offer to the cops on his way to the Pinellas County Jail (otherwise known as the “Sheriff Coats Motel”):…
A 20-year-old St. Petersburg man was sentenced to three-and-a-half (3 1/2) years in prison after pleading guilty to a charge stemming from a fatal wreck that killed two (2) people – his 23-year-old cousin, who was a passenger in his car, and a 59-year-old woman, who was a passenger in…
A story in this morning’s St. Pete Times about the “SCRAM” monitor caught my attention: For a solid year, Stephen Hulgin knew he could not sneak a drink without getting locked up. The reason was strapped around his ankle: an alcohol monitoring device he wore 24 hours a day, as…
A woman who drove her car into her neighbor’s house was charged with Driving Under the Influence (DUI) yesterday. Gail Ann Kay, 54, was driving her 2008 Jeep SUV when she crashed through a house wall at 9:36 p.m. Wednesday, according to the St. Petersburg Police Department. She left a…
The Clearwater Police Department announced today it will conduct a traffic safety detail over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend in an effort to reduce the number of vehicle accidents. Unfortunately, the holiday season also brings about more car accidents and more impaired and/or DUI drivers on the Tampa Bay area roadways.”Operation…
An “anonymous tip” led undercover detectives to a Bartow home, where they found a working moonshine still according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office. Detectives searched the house on Thomas Jefferson Circle East in Bartow, where they found the fully-operational still. They seized the still, along with seven jars of…
How lazy do you gotta be to get a DUI without ever getting off your La-Z-Boy???The following is courtesy of TMZ.com: A 61-year-old man named Dennis LeRoy was just sentenced to 180 days in jail after cops say he got wasted at a Minnesota bar last year and tried to…
In one of the biggest jury verdicts of its kind, a Hernando County jury awarded more than $330 million in civil damages today to the mother of a 13-year-old girl that was killed by a drunk driver in April 2007. For the complete story, check out today’s St. Pete Times…
Three Pasco County deputies came to court in New Port Richey this week to testify that they each saw Robert Corbin, 55, fall off his Harley-Davidson motorcycle and flee the scene — leaving the motorcycle on its side, running, with the key still in the ignition. That testimony, however, was…
On April 20th of this year, Andrew Hall of Safety Harbor was standing on the sidewalk outside of his Main Street apartment when he was struck by a vehicle which took his leg. Five months later, an arrest has been made in the case. Joshua Dean West, 24, was arrested…