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July 30, 2020 By: Staff Report HOLIDAY, Fla. – On Wednesday, July 29th at 6:45 PM, a suspect drove his blue Ford truck to Camping World at 2112 US 19 in Holiday to plan his camper trailer theft. The suspect then left Camping World to…
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July 30, 2020 By: Staff Report, National ALBANY, GA—Two convicted felons are in custody and are charged by federal criminal complaint after a cache of weapons was found in an Albany hotel room. Daniel Landon Knight, age 29, and Haley Roberts, age 32, both of…
Read More Felons Charged with Illegally Possessing Cache of Weapons
July 30, 2020 By: Staff Report Video By: Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd WINTER HAVEN, Fla. – Polk County Sheriff’s Office is delivering a ‘Throwback Thursday’ message with Sheriff Grady Judd. The video description says, “It’s #ThrowbackThursday with Sheriff Judd! We twisted his arm and…
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July 30, 2020 By: Staff Report Gulfport, Miss – Joseph D. Sonnier, 31, of Gautier, Mississippi, has been charged in an indictment, returned by a Federal Grand Jury on July 28, 2020, with four counts of assault on an officer or employee of the government,…
Read More Gautier Man Charged with Assault on U.S. Marshals Service Task Force Officers
July 30, 2020 By: Staff Report TAMPA, Fla. – A man accused of looking through the windows of multiple homes overnight between June and July was arrested early this morning by Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office deputies. At midnight on Thursday, July 30, detectives began conducting…
Read More Peeping Tom Arrested in Town N’ Country HCSO
July 30, 2020 By: Staff Report FORT MYERS, Fla.- Christopher Gloster, Sr. (57, Fort Myers), aka “OG,” was sentenced to seven years in federal prison for conspiring to distribute crack cocaine. Gloster’s son, Christopher Gloster, Jr. (30, Fort Myers), aka “Jitt,” was sentenced to five…
Read More Father And Son Sentenced To Federal Prison For Drug Dealing
July 30, 2020 By: LEO Round Table, Chip Deblock DETROIT, Mich. – Discussed today Detroit Police Corporal Daniel Debono being prosecuted for allegedly firing rubber bullets at peaceful journalists. Also, Seattle police retreating after rioters attacked officers aggressively, St. Louis (Missouri) man Peter Webb shooting…
Read More Detroit Cop Charged With Shooting Journalists With Rubber Bullets
July 30, 2020 By: Staff Report, HCSO PR LUTZ, Fla.- The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office has made an arrest in a homicide that occurred early Wednesday morning. Through investigative work and interviews with witnesses, Brandon Jerelle Howard, 29, was identified as the suspect linked to…
Read More House Party Murder, Valrico Man Arrested and Charged
July 30, 2020 By: Staff Report BARTOW, Fla.- The Polk County Sheriff’s Office Traffic Homicide Unit responded to a two-vehicle crash on the evening of Tuesday, July 28, 2020, in Winter Haven. The crash killed 35-year-old Michael Sweet of Winter Haven who was driving a…
Read More Drug Dealer Arrested for DUI Manslaughter & Child Neglect
July 30, 2020 By: Staff Report, DOJ PR Fayetteville, Arkansas – Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas David Clay Fowlkes, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Diane Upchurch of the FBI Little Rock…
Read More University Of Arkansas Professor Indicted For Wire Fraud And Passport Fraud