The Tampa Police Department is reporting that a couple used their ten year old son to help in a burglary last night. The parents had the child climb through a bedroom window of an apartment on North Alaska Street where he unlocked the front door, allowing his parents to steal a TV and a […]
There is a new drug being used and abused across the nation called “bath salts.” Over half the County now makes the use and possession of these salts illegal, and Florida is no exception. In January of 2011, Attorney General Pam Bondi issued an emergency order making it a felony to sell or possess the […]
Hillsborough Judges are deciding whether or not Intoxilyzer 8000 results should be admissible in court following research by experts indicating that the machine may not be reliable. DUI expert witness Stephen Daniels was quoted on 10 News Tampa Bay recently stating that in hundreds of tests no breath volume was reported, which raises the […]
A Tampa man has been arrested after authorities were tipped off to a facebook photograph of him with a dead deer. The man, Kyle Edwards, faces a year and a half in jail and up to a $1,500 fine for killing a deer and an alligator. This is just one more of those stories that […]
The Supreme Court of Florida handed down an opinion last week changing the face of DMV Administrative Hearings as we know them. Until this decision, if an officer made an illegal, or “bad”, stop of a vehicle, the DMV could still suspend that driver’s license if he or she was found to have blown […]
A Tampa man has been arrested after he allegedly posed as an undercover officer and molested a 19 year old woman. The man forced the woman into his vehicle and then sexually molested her. Police obtained an ATM photo and bank info on the man and the victim identified him through a photo. The […]
A Palm Harbor man was arrested last night after six of twelve pets he owned died, PCSO officials say. Michael Waite, 39, was charged with one felony count of animal cruelty. Waite was supposed to be watching three birds, two dogs, and seven cats including five kittens. Two of the birds died and were found […]
A new study out of the University of Florida says that frequent use of hand sanitizer may create false-positives in alcohol tests. Dr. Gary Reisfield was inspired to do the study after coming in contact with persons who failed an alcohol test but denied alcohol consumption. The study shows that normal use of sanitizer – […]
Florida’s Click-It-Or-Ticket campaign begins again today. Each year, Florida law enforcement agencies crack down on motorists who are not wearing their seat belts during the month of May. These tickets carry a $116 fine. The Campaign runs through June 5, 2011 this year. With the economy being down, experts predict local law enforcement agencies […]
Did you know Florida has codified the crime of Theft of Utility Services? Under Florida Statute 812.14, a person who willfully alters or tampers with a meter/pipe/wire/line/cable/transformer/amplifier/other apparatus or device belonging to a utility service in order to obtain services fradulently is guilty of a first degree misdemeanor punishable by one year in jail and […]