A 56-year-old former child actor and voice of Charlie Brown in several “Peanuts” specials on television in the 1960s entered a plea of not guilty Wednesday to 12 felony counts of stalking and making criminal threats. Peter Robbins is charged with threatening a former girlfriend and a La Jolla plastic…
Bartow, FL – A three-day undercover operation targeting online prostitution ads has resulted in dozens of people being arrested. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office conducted the operation between January 10 and January 13. At the end of the sting, a total of 78 people were arrested, including a porn star…
New Port Richey, FL – Pasco County deputies caught up with a man believed to be a suspect in an armed robbery of an Achieva Federal Credit Union branch just minutes after the robbery occurred on State Road 54. According to a sheriff’s office media release, a man entered the…
Spring Hill, FL – A Hernando County woman has been arrested and charged with child abuse after a 9-year-old child left in her care got sick after allegedly consuming crack cocaine. Hernando County Fire Rescue Officials arrived at the woman’s home last week after the child began having convulsions. The…
Boca Raton, FL – A 20-year-old Boca woman was arrested and charged with two counts of DUI manslaughter and two counts of vehicular homicide on Wednesday in connection with a March crash that left a mother and daughter dead. On March 9, an 85-year-old woman and her 54-year-old daughter were…
Tampa, FL – A 42-year-old Tampa pharmacist was one of three convicted last month in Ohio on conspiracy to distribute controlled substances. The three are accused of playing active roles in a multi-state drug conspiracy that sent millions of dollars’ worth of prescription pills to all 50 states. The Tampa…
St. Petersburg, FL – A 23-year-old man was arrested Nov. 15 for aggravated child abuse after authorities claim he caused a laceration to a 4-year-old boy’s kidney while the child was in his care. Deputies claim the man struck the young boy and urinated blood. The boy was taken to…
Polk County authorities have arrested a junior hockey league coach from Massachusetts on charges that he used a solicited what he thought was a 16-year-old boy online. The man was arrested in his home Wednesday night in Acushnet, Mass., and booked into a local jail. Polk County detectives began investigating…
Homosassa, FL – A registered sex offender has been arrested on charges of lewd and lascivious conduct with an 11-year-old girl. The 36-year-old, who is listed as homeless, apparently traveled to a hotel in the county with the girl and another adult female on Oct. 27 where the trio stayed…
Tallahassee, Florida – State officials have reported that the overall crime rate in Florida has dropped 3.8 percent in the first half of 2012 compared to the same period in 2011. However, the number of murders and forcible sex offenses is on the rise. Governor Rick Scott and Florida Department…