TAMPA - James Royce Smith punched his stepchild's face three times and thrust a screwdriver at another stepchild Monday, Hillsborough County deputies say. ...more

June 17, 2008

TAMPA - Anthony Morales asked three people for money, and when they refused, he pulled out a knife and tried to stab them, Tampa police say. ...more

June 16, 2008

More than 80 people were arrested in a federal sweep of four companies that allegedly arranged fraudulent marriages to earn immigrants citizenship, even organizing wedding photos with bridal gowns and elaborate, but fake, wedding cakes, federal officials said Friday. ...more

May 10, 2008

CHARLOTTE COUNTY - Sheriff's deputies arrested a 25-year-old man last week on suspicion of sexually assaulting a 3-year-old girl and using knives and a machete to threaten her mother. ...more

May 5, 2008

SEBRING — A Sebring man remained in Highlands County Jail in lieu of $150,000 bail Friday, charged in connection with a reported armed burglary, armed assault and kidnapping of a Sebring woman. Chad Anthony Martin, 27, of 7414 County Road 17 S., Sebring, was booked in Wednesday on charges of burglary of a dwelling, structure or conveyance while armed, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and kidnapping to commit or facilitate a felony. On Nov. 8, sheriff's investigators met with a Sebring woman who reported that at about 11 p.m. Nov. 7, in the 3000 block of Sparkling Drive, in Sebring, she heard a noise of her kitchen door opening. She looked out her bedroom door and spotted two people standing in her living room, the report stated. She locked the bedroom door and tried to get out through her laundry room door, which connected to her bedroom. As she tried to get out through her back porch, she reported she was grabbed by her hair by a man she knew only as Chad. ...more

February 2, 2008

SEBRING — A Sebring man remained in Highlands County Jail in lieu of $150,000 bail Thursday, charged in connection with a reported armed burglary, armed assault and kidnapping of a Sebring woman. ...more

January 31, 2008

Police have arrested a teen in connection with the death of a 16-year-old boy in December and are searching for two others involved, the Bartow Police Department said. ...more

January 7, 2008

TAMPA - Christopher John Cielatka put a knife to his girlfriend's throat, swung a baseball bat at two people and fled on foot with the bat Saturday, Hillsborough County deputies say. ...more

January 6, 2008

LAKE PLACID — A Lake Placid man remained in Highlands County Jail in lieu of $30,500 bail Thursday, charged with trying to rob a Lake Placid woman at her home on E.A. Smith Avenue. ...more

January 3, 2008