Simmons caught in Fort Lauderdale area. ...more

January 5, 2009

A fourth person has been arrested in connection with the Christmas Eve robbery of a Spring Hill credit union, authorities say. ...more

January 5, 2009

Three suspects have been arrested in connection with a bank robbery last week and a warrant has been issued for a fourth, deputies said. ...more

January 1, 2009

St. Petersburg police have arrested two men and are searching for a third they say are suspected of robbing two insurance companies Tuesday afternoon. ...more

December 31, 2008

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office is seeking the public's help in finding a man thought to be responsible for Wednesday's robbery of a Shell gas station. Robert H. Huffman, 57, is being sought on a warrant for felony armed robbery, officials said today. He is accused of robbing the gas station at 3103 S. 50th St. ...more

December 19, 2008

Justin Maza pointed a firearm at a person Wednesday night and ordered him back inside a Tijuana Flats restaurant in Brandon, Hillsborough County deputies say. He held four people at gunpoint there, refusing to let them leave, and made a motion to one of the people to give him money, according to a criminal arrest affidavit. Maza, 19, later ran from the restaurant, 11007 Causeway Blvd. ...more

December 11, 2008

At about 8:35 p.m. Tuesday, reports of shots being fired alerted Sebring police to an armed robbery at the L&M Food Store, located at 1411 Roseland Ave., in the Highlands Homes subdivision. ...more

December 11, 2008

A 22-year-old man was at the drive-up ATM Monday night when a car pulled up behind him and the driver walked up to his car and pointed a black revolver at his left shoulder, according to a Pasco County Sheriff's Office report. ...more

December 10, 2008

A weary and beaten-looking O.J. Simpson was put away Friday for at least nine years - and perhaps the rest of his life - for an armed robbery in a hotel room, bringing a measure of satisfaction to those who thought the football star got away with murder more than a decade ago. ...more

December 6, 2008

LAS VEGAS - A broken O.J. Simpson was sentenced Friday to as many as 33 years in prison for a hotel armed robbery after a judge rejected his apology and said, "It was much more than stupidity." The 61-year-old football Hall of Famer stood shackled and stone-faced as Judge Jackie Glass rattled off the punishment. Moments before, Simpson made a rambling, five-minute plea for leniency, simultaneously apologizing for the holdup as a foolish mistake and trying to justify his actions. ...more

December 5, 2008