Tampa Bay Online reported yesterday that former Florida Appellate Court Judge Thomas E. Stringer publicly admitted this morning that he is guilty of bank fraud for helping a stripper hide her financial assets from creditors. According to the federal charge, he lied on a loan application to purchase a house…
The Orlando Sentinel is reporting that the Lake County Sheriff’s Office has been using federal immigration detainers to arrest and jail suspected illegal immigrants. Lake County is not the only jurisdiction making use of this practice but, according to the report, the Lake County Sheriff’s Office is one of the…
If you’ve ever left your dog in the car for “just five minutes” on a summer day you could be subjected to criminal liability. How? According to the United Animal Nations, dogs don’t have sweat glands all over their bodies as humans do. They cool off by panting, which is…
In what will no doubt be the subject of rumor mills in Sumter County, Florida for some time, a Deputy from the Sumter County S.O. has been arrested for the very serious offense of Sexual Battery on a child under the age of 12. This offense is a Capital Felony…
Reports indicate that the musician/rapper was spotted by an off-duty Clearwater Police Department Officer who noticed Sparxxx engage in a hand to hand transaction at a local Hooter’s restaurant. Apparently, the Officer confronted Mr. Sparxxx and allegedly asked for permission to search his wallet. The report indicates that the rapper…
According to Kevin Metana of the St. Petersburg Times, two men were arrested this past week in Tampa, and charged with two counts of drug trafficking, two counts of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud, burglary and grand theft. The report indicates that the men were allegedly found to be…
Despite no known criminal priors, a 23-year-old is behind bars, according to the St. Petersburg Times, in Land O’ Lakes, Pasco County Jail, after a botched traffic stop on Friday night. Allegedly during a “routine” stop for a missing tag and suspicion of ties to a recent burglary, the defendant…
A Dade City man charged and previously convicted of possession of marijuana over 20 grams, was given a second chance by the 2nd District Court of Appeals. As a result of the Second DCA’s ruling, the trial court’s denial of the defense’s Motion to Suppress filed to suppress all of…
Florida Attorney General’s Office announced the arrest of a Pinellas County man for possession of child pornography. This arrest was a result of a cooperative effort of the St. Petersburg’s Police Department, the Florida Attorney General’s Tampa Cyber Crime Task Force and the Central Florida Internet Crimes Against Children Task…
According to the Citrus County Chronicle, Citrus County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a 23 year-old female detention officer for allegedly performing a sex act on a 17 year-old male inmate. Citrus County is of course no stranger to newsworthy sex crimes, as this was the location of the brutal Jessica…