Tampa Bay: BEWARE According to a story in tonight’s online edition of the St. Petersburg Times, a fifty-eight (58) year-old Pasco County man noticed something odd at a drive-thru ATM machine last Saturday morning. When he tried to insert his ATM card, there seemed to be an odd piece of…
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge denied a defense motion on Monday by a “reality television star” accused of burglarizing the home of actor Orlando Bloom to have her statements to police barred from her upcoming trial. Alexis Neiers, 18, testified that she did not understand her Miranda rights to…
Paul C. Austin, 35, of Chicago, was extradited on Sunday and delivered to the Pinellas County Jail (from Illinois) to face a Felony charge accusing him of hiding a camera in a bathroom to take pictures of a young girl while she showered.Austin’s arrest warrant was for a Felony charge…
According to a story in yesterday’s St. Pete Times, “[a] year-long drug investigation led to the seizure of more than $1.5 million in cash and Monday’s arrest of a 28-year-old man on Federal Drug Charges.”Details from a Federal arrest warrant showed how Cocaine was shipped from Mexico and distributed through…
According to a recent story in the St. Petersburg TImes, a 15-year-old boy shoved a teacher into a doorjamb, a boy punched a 12-year-old girl because she said she didn’t like him, and a 14-year-old girl slapped and cursed at a younger classmate. All three (3) of these incidents took…
Sara Lou Kenny, 20, of New Port Richey, needed some clean urine to pass a drug test so, authorities say, she tried to smuggle the urine from her friend’s 4-year-old son past a probation officer and pass it off as her own.It didn’t work!!! Kenney was arrested Friday at a…
The culmination of a 10-month drug investigation called “Operation Pill Poppers” was impressive: 74 suspects were identified, 150 counts of Doctor Shopping, otherwise known as “Withholding Information from a Practitioner,” were filed and 55,006 pills, with a street value of approximately $750,000, were seized. For the complete story, check out…
Sometimes, good police work requires that you get down and dirty. Earlier this week, in Weymouth, Massachusetts, Rene Valencia, a 24-year-old entrepreneur (i.e., “drug dealer”) charged with Attempting to Sell Heroin and Cocaine near Weston Park allegedly swallowed his drugs rather than face the consequences of getting caught red-handed. However,…
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…
Christy Lynn Martin, a former Azalea Middle School teacher, was sentenced to five (5) years probation Tuesday for “sexting” an eighth grade student, according to the St. Pete Times.Martin, 33, pleaded guilty to Transmitting Pornographic Images through an Electronic Device and Transmitting Material Harmful to a Minor. In exchange for…