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,…
Two teenage girls were charged after deputies said they stole packages from the front porch of a home in Riverview. The alleged incident occurred on Dec. 19 around 6:15 p.m. at a home on Palmetto Pine Street. The two teens are accused of entering into the neighborhood on a golf…
A Haines City High School teacher is accused of having explicit, sexual conversations with a 15-year-old boy in Texas. The 27-year-old faces felony charges from Winter Haven Police. She told police the teen told her he was 19 years old. According to police, the boy’s mother found out about the…
A couple has been arrested for several mailbox thefts in the Spring Hill area. A 31-year-old man and a 26-year-old woman were arrested Dec. 8 for allegedly stealing items from residents’ mailboxes in Spring Hill. The first theft occurred on Dec. 6 at a home on Pillar Avenue in Spring…
A Vero Beach Uber driver claims he picked up a passenger at a bar Thursday night, and shortly after he asked him to stop at a 7-Eleven that was along the way to allegedly buy drugs. The driver apparently called the Vero Beach police and told the dispatcher that he…
Police arrested two women on Monday at the Aventura Mall who are accused of trying to buy thousand of dollars’ worth of designer goods with stolen credit cards. Aventura police said the women, 31 and 52, allegedly stole five credit cards from a Sunny Isles Beach woman. The 31-year-old is…
Crime fell across Florida in the first half of 2017, according to the Semi-Annual Uniform Crime Report from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. While there were more than 6,000 fewer crimes reported in Florida in the first sixth months of the year, a 2 percent drop, overall crime was…
Two people have been arrested in Hernando County and are facing multiple fraud and drug charges in connection with an alleged credit card fraud scheme. The pair have been booked into the Hernando County Jail. A detective with the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office said this is one of the largest…
About 20 unlicensed contractors accused of scamming Pinellas County residents were taken into custody Tuesday. According to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office, deputies began rounding up the contractors at 5 a.m. during “Operation Nailed.” The men, roofers, painters and construction workers are accused of scamming residents out of thousands of…
A Mandarin High School student and an 18-year-old Northside charter school student were allegedly caught Friday with guns on their respective campuses, according to police. The 18-year-old was arrested Friday with a loaded gun in his book bag at Biscayne High Charter School on the Northside, police said. The gun…