Like a scene out of a bad Hollywood “dark” comedy, a Pasco man was arrested for domestic assault, aggravated assault and tampering with a witness for kidnapping his wife and forcing her to go to dinner with him. per the baynews9 online article, the wife was fortunate, as this could…
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DUI Checkpoint on U.S. 19 in Pinellas this weekend…
Working on a theme from an earlier post, there is another DUI checkpoint coming up this weekend, 12/14-12/15, just in time for the holiday season. The full article can be found here… While there is never a good time to be drunk driving, doing so in Pinellas county this weekend…
In St. Petersburg, the Coast Guard hauls in $45 million worth of cocaine
From The Tampa Times, it looks like the street value of St. Petersburg just got higher… St. Petersburg became a temporary home to almost 4,000 pounds of cocaine late Wednesday when the Coast Guard unloaded the captured loot. The two tons of coke were confiscated from two vessels near the…
Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office targets crime in Tampa
From the Tampa Bay Times, an article about the different tactics the HCSO uses to combat crime in a neighborhood… Thanks in part to the help of a local community watch organizer, Tampa residents in the Clair-Mel area may at last be getting some relief. Hillsborough sheriff deputies, prodded by…
Former Tampa Bay Buc makes Hope Solo the newest victim of Domestic Violence
A late breaking story on ABC news, former soccer goalie and sex symbol Hope Solo was a victim of domestic violence from her boyfriend/fiance, former NFL bad boy Jerramy Stevens. According to public sources, the former Seattle Seahawk’s tight end was arrested the day before the couples wedding on suspicion…
Maybe he’s crazy? Singer Cee Lo Green accused of sexual assault
Singer and “The Voice” judge Cee Lo Green has been accused of sexual assault according to TMZ. An unamed source claims that the woman, who has been dating Cee Lo Green (real name Thomas DeCarlo Callaway) has filed a complaint with the Los Angeles police department. The LAPD has taken…
Clearwater domestic violence survivor tells her story
From the Tampa Bay Times, a courageous young woman speaks out to a high school class about the dangers of domestic violence… Before a crowd of Countryside High school students, Melissa Dohme, 20, just a couple of years older then the kids she was talking to, gave her story. She…
Bobby Brown in more DUI trouble…
It was only a few months ago when we last wrote of Bobby Brown’s DUI case. At the time, he was saying all the right things about getting better and how this had changed him. Now according to an article in the Mercury news, it looks like the former lead…
His own worst Public Enemy…Flavor Flav gets arrested for domestic violence
From an article on the New York daily news website, the former member of the 80’s and 90’s hip hop group “Public Enemy” was arrested in Las Vegas on a charge of felony domestic battery. The 53-year-old rapper turned “Flavor of Love” reality TV star, legal name William Drayton Jr.,…
Tampa juror going to jail?
From the Tampa Bay Times website, a Hillsborough county judge is vowing to send a juror to jail because he took it upon himself to research a suspect accused of murder… In Tampa, after ignoring multiple warnings from the assigned judge not to research a murder case starting this week,…