Deputy Bryan Schmick said he knew the area around the Villa Palm apartments had been inundated with drug dealers, but an investigation into drug use there yielded far more arrests than he thought. ...more

August 13, 2008

A drug investigation at Villa Palm apartments in recent weeks has led to 41 arrests and 138 total charges, Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Debbie Carter said. ...more

August 12, 2008

A judge today threw out a jury's determination that a 21-year-old woman was guilty of neglect in the death of her 9-month-old son, who was left in a bathtub last year. ...more

August 11, 2008

No traffic stop is routine. It was 10:45 p.m. Tuesday when police officer Adam Willis stopped a white Mercury traveling 57 mph in a 45 mph zone at U.S. 27 North and Kingdom Way. ...more

August 8, 2008

A Lake Placid man was free on $3,000 bail Friday after deputies say he was arrested when they found him asleep with his wife and two young children in the same room and a silver tray with some marijuana within the children's reach. ...more

August 4, 2008

Deputies arrested four people on drug charges Thursday after searching a home on Greenview Avenue. ...more

August 1, 2008

A man arrested after trying to board a Southwest Airlines flight with a box cutter concealed inside a hardcover book was sentenced in federal court today to a year's probation. ...more

July 24, 2008

A suspected drug dealer was arrested at home Wednesday by undercover deputies. ...more

July 17, 2008

A Sebring woman remained in Highlands County Jail in lieu of $7,000 bond Monday after sheriff's investigators say she intentionally bit a 1-year-old boy on the face to discipline the baby for head-butting and biting. ...more

July 15, 2008