A teacher for the Pasco County School district has been arrested and charged with custodial authority sexual battery on a student. The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office launched an investigation into the 32-year-old man on January 2, 2022, after they received information about an alleged inappropriate relationship between the male teacher…
A domestic battery charge filed last weekend against actress and former political commentator Stacey Dash has been dropped. The Pasco County Clerk & Comptroller posted an update on its website Friday. According to the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office, Dash, 52, and a man became involved in an argument just before…
Stacey Dash was arrested for domestic battery after an incident Sunday night in New Port Richey, according to the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office. The 52-year-old “Clueless” actress was taken into custody after an argument with a male, whose name was redacted in an incident report obtained by CNN. She is…
A federal jury found the owner of a Tampa Bay area medical marketing company guilty on Thursday for his role in a $2.2 million-plus Medicare fraud scheme involving the payment of kickbacks and bribes to medical clinics in Miami in exchange for the referral of DNA swabs that were obtained…
The former mayor of Port Richey, Dale Massad, was found guilty Tuesday of conspiracy to obstruct justice. The jury’s verdict came at about 6 p.m. at the end of a one-day trial in which four witnesses testified. The jury took less than an hour to decide on the evidence. Massad,…
Florida Department of Law Enforcement agents arrested the city of Port Richey’s acting mayor Terrence Hagan Rowe, 64, on Wednesday charging him with obstruction of justice, conspiracy to commit obstruction of justice, and use of a two-way communications device to facilitate the commission of a crime. According to the agency,…
A former Pasco County School District transportation manager was sentenced to life in prison in federal court for sexually assaulting children and producing and distributing child pornography. In August, the 35-year-old New Port Richey man pleaded guilty to enticing and coercing a minor to engage in sexual activity and to…
Pasco County authorities have arrested a 19-year-old man and charged him with lewd and lascivious molestation at a county library. The man accused was a library volunteer when the incident was reported but has since been terminated.According to a Sheriff’s Office report, a 14-year-old boy claims the man “enticed him…
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement arrested a Dade City man for allegedly possessing hundreds of files of child pornography and possibly accessing thousands more. A Pasco County Sheriff’s Office arrest report states investigators found 274 suspected child porn files on the man’s laptop. They allegedly reviewed 22 of those…
Two 19-year-old boys have been charged in an alleged holiday crime spree. Pasco deputies claim the two teens went on a crime spree over the late hours of Christmas Eve and Christmas night in the Zephyrhills area. The two 19-year-old’s are accused of burglarizing vehicles and stealing money, personal items,…