An inmate at the Pinellas County jail is accused of forging paperwork to get out of jail. According to Bay News 9’s partner paper, the St. Petersburg Times, Nydeed Nashaddai managed to fake a letter that got him out of jail. He was in jail on fifteen (15) counts of…
Taxpayers will foot the bill for a makeup artist to cover up some potentially offensive tattoos on the face and neck of a neo-Nazi during his First Degree Murder trial scheduled to begin next week.Attorneys for John Allen Ditullio Jr. aren’t taking any chances when it comes to the 23-year-old’s…
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…
“Sexting,” the act of sending nude or semi-nude images from one’s cell phone or computer, is being cited as a major factor in the recent death of a Ruskin teenager.Thirteen (13) year-old Beth Shields Middle School student Hope Witsell ultimately took her own life when the taunting and bullying by…
In another addition of: “Only in Florida.” More specifically, “Only in the Tampa Bay area.” This story was featured in this mornings St. Pete Times. This was probably not the best Thanksgiving for Ronald R. Conkright.His troubles first started when he called 911 at 11:47 p.m. Thursday (Thanksgiving evening). He…
A scheme to rob a man of his prescription painkillers “backfired” Tuesday, police said, leading to the arrests of three (3) men — one accused of shooting the victim in the leg. The trio planned to rob Gordon Kendrick, 28, right after he went into a pharmacy to have an…
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…
Pinellas County prosecutors have decided to drop charges against two (2) men who got into a humorous fist fight at a St. Petersburg City Council meeting. Frederick Dudley and Ronald Deaton were arrested in October after they began throwing punches during an argument over a decision to privatize a public…
A self-proclaimed minister who claimed he smokes marijuana for “religious” and health reasons has been found Guilty of a Felony charge of Manufacturing/Cultivating Marijuana for growing 100 plants. It took a Brevard County jury only 14 minutes Friday to find 53-year-old Steven Swallick Guilty of the above-mentioned offense. He faces…
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…