TAMPA - The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office arrested two men on Wednesday who investigators say were part of a ring that produced and cashed counterfeit checks from 2005 to last month. ...more

January 31, 2008

TAMPA A - Chicago man and a woman who was with him are in custody this morning after being arrested at Tampa International Airport with stolen credit cards and 99 fake driver's licenses, records show. ...more

January 28, 2008

TAMPA - A 41-year-old Largo man was sentenced Tuesday to 16 1/2 years in prison on federal bank fraud and identity theft charges. ...more

January 16, 2008

Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies on Monday arrested a 42-year-old man and charged him with burglarizing seven businesses in eastern Hillsborough during the course of a month. ...more

December 18, 2007

TAMPA - Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies this morning arrested a 42-year-old man and charged him with burglarizing seven businesses in eastern Hillsborough over the course of a month. ...more

December 17, 2007

HIGHLAND CITY - Polk County deputies arrested a 31-year-old man for sexual battery after he broke into two homes, claiming to be aroused from cocaine and methamphetamine use, authorities said. James Taylor, of 5531 3rd St., was on probation for burglary of an occupied dwelling, deputies said. ...more

December 9, 2007

A Tampa man heard chuckling behind him as he was walking home early Thursday near Memorial Hospital in South Tampa. ...more

December 7, 2007

Four Tampa men and a teenage boy chuckled behind a man as he walked home near Memorial Hospital this morning. When the man, St. Petersburg Times photographer Zach Boyden-Holmes, turned and saw them, he started to run to his apartment. The five people chased him, caught him and beat him up at 3206 W. DeLeon St. in South Tampa, police said. ...more

December 6, 2007

AVON PARK — An Avon Park man received three jolts from a Taser on Sunday before he gave in to police commands to show his hands after a domestic squabble at his home, according to Avon Park police. ...more

December 6, 2007

PALMETTO - A man who shot himself in the leg then lied to police by telling officers that gang members had attacked him, authorities reported. ...more

November 5, 2007