According to an online story on BayNews9.com, members of the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO), along with the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), busted a major drug operation that was using produce shipments to smuggle Cocaine into the Tampa Bay area. The men arrested are accused of bringing $2.5 million…
As I was scanning BayNews9.com for a good criminal law article to blog about, I came across the following story in their “Strange News” column: A Pennsylvania woman is accused of illegally accepting workers’ compensation payments while working as a stripper. Forty-three (43) year-old Christina Gamble waived a preliminary hearing…
A high-profile DUI Manslaughter case from St. Petersburg has put the malt beverage, Four Loko, under the radar and created a national “buzz” about the new drink’s popularity.Demetrius Jordan, 20, has told officers that he drank Four Loko (in addition to consuming other liquor and smoking marijuana) prior to getting…
According to a story in this week’s Tampa Tribune, the painkiller Oxycodone caused more deaths in Florida last year than any other drug (according to a report released this morning), and nowhere did it cause more deaths than in the medical examiner district for Pinellas and Pasco counties. Of the…
Every once in awhile, the local media publishes a story that is so “right-on-point,” that I’d rather cut-and-paste the entire story and quote to it (rather than provide commentary about it). In this case, I caught an early glimpse this evening of an article in tomorrow’s St. Pete Times, written…
Jeremy Trueblood, the starting right tackle for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, was released from an Indiana jail Wednesday after prosecutors decided not to file a Public Intoxication charge stemming from an arrest Tuesday night, authorities said.Trueblood, 27, was released from Hancock County Jail early Wednesday morning. According to authorities, just…
After almost one (1) year, police have arrested a St. Petersburg man they say is responsible for a crash that killed a 60-year-old Clearwater man in Pinellas Park last summer. Anthony Bernard Peterson, 22, of 3627 27th Avenue South, was arrested Friday afternoon on charges of Vehicular Homicide, Leaving the…
In what is becoming an all-too-often event, a St. Petersburg high school band director has been arrested on charges of having consenual sex with a 15-year-old student. According to an online Baynews 9 story, the St. Petersburg Police Department arrested 27-year-old Raphael Mclean after they determined that he had sex…
Sometimes, in my never-ending quest for a good story to blog about, you run across something that is just too good to make up. Usually, these types of stories occur in Pasco County. This one (below) is no different. Enjoy, courtesy of today’s St. Pete Times.A New Port Richey man…
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”):…