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CLEARWATER, Fla. – Clearwater Police officers responded to a bank robbery call at about 3:00 PM Wednesday afternoon at the Wells Fargo located at 2699 Gulf-to-Bay Blvd. That’s when a man entered the bank and implied he had a weapon and demanded money before fleeing…
Read More Clearwater Bank Robbery Suspect Sought By Police
POLK COUNTY, Fla. – On January 25, 2021, Polk County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested 45-year-old Kevin John Wheeler of Fort Meade for removing a monument (F3) and petit theft (M2). On January 13, 2021, Roy and Elizabeth Tillman reported a theft of solar lights at…
Read More Florida Man Arrested, Stealing Lights From Gravesite Belonging to One of the 3 Victims of the Frostproof Triple Homicide
A Palmetto man arrested by Sarasota Police detectives in connection to a 2015 sexual battery. Clifton Bean, 45, of 52nd Avenue East, Palmetto, has been arrested and is facing two charges of sexual battery on a victim over 12 in connection to a2015 case. Bean…
Read More Florida Man Jailed on $300,000 Bond After Arrest from 2015 Sexual Child Assault
WINTER HAVEN, Fla. – At around 12:15 a.m., on Saturday, Polk County Sheriff deputies responded to a report of a possible impaired driver who crashed into a resident’s mailbox on Berkley Road in Auburndale. Deputies located David Arkuszeski, 28, Winter Haven, standing outside his vehicle,…
Read More Former Haines City Police Officer Arrested for DUI after Crashing into a Mailbox in Auburndale
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. – The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office arrested a teen who robbed two convenience stores and tried to flee from deputies. On Friday, January 22, 2021, at approximately 7:30 a.m., Rhys McGall, 18, entered the Circle K, located at 4704 West Trapnell Road, and…
Read More Teen Arrested for Hillsborough Circle K Robberies
PASCO COUNTY, Fla. – U.S. District Judge William F. Jung has sentenced William Johnson (31, Holiday) to 12 years and 7 months in federal prison for participating in a conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute 400 grams or more of a mixture or…
Read More Pasco County Drug Dealer Sentenced To More Than 12 Years In Federal Prison
U.S. District Judge William F. Jung has sentenced Kwame’ Leon Weaver (31, Clearwater) to 10 years in federal prison for possessing a mixture of fentanyl, acetylfentanyl, and heroin with the intent to distribute it. Weaver had pleaded guilty on November 20, 2019. According to court…
Read More Florida Man Get 10 Years in Prison for Dealing Fentanyl
A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Kaveh Lotfolah Afrasiabi, also known as Lotfolah Kaveh Afrasiabi, with acting and conspiring to act as an unregistered agent of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in violation of the Foreign…
Read More FBI: Political Scientist Author Charged With Acting As An Unregistered Agent Of The Iranian Government
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. – Master Corporal LaVigne’s visitation and funeral will take place today, Tuesday, January 19, 2021, at Idlewild Baptist Church located at 18333 Exciting Idlewild Boulevard in Lutz. Both the visitation and service to honor the life of Master Corporal LaVigne will be…
Read More Hillsborough Community Remembers and Honors Master Corporal Brian LaVigne
Over 1,000 miles and 24 hours after an 18-year-old woman was kidnapped at gunpoint in South Florida, her alleged kidnapper was arrested and the young woman found safe in Virginia, just outside of Washington, D.C. On Sunday at around 5:30 a.m, the Pembroke Pines Police…
Read More 18-Year-Old Florida Woman, Robbed, Kidnapped, Found Safe 1000 Miles Away