A Pahokee man who used stolen front-end loaders to dislodge ATMs at 11 banks in nine counties, including Polk and Manatee, is in the Leon County Jail, authorities said. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement arrested Nasedra Lumpkin, 33, after a 15-month investigation into the string of ATM thefts the agency said netted more than $1 million and caused $575,000 damage to the banks. ...more

May 7, 2009

Avon Park Police Officer Alberto Perez was arrested for the second time in less than a week, this time on a warrant charging perjury. ...more

May 6, 2009

Avon Park Police Officer Alberto Perez was out of jail Friday on a $6,000 bond following his second arrest Thursday for allegations of police misconduct. ...more

May 1, 2009

Authorities say a man killed himself at the central Florida gun range where a mother killed herself and her son three weeks ago. ...more

April 28, 2009

Sarasota police have arrested a suspect in the 30-year-old murder case of community leader John Allaman. ...more

March 30, 2009

A Clearwater convenience store clerk pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges he bought hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of food stamps from customers at a discount. ...more

March 26, 2009

Testimony began today in the trial of a former youth baseball volunteer accused of raping a 10-year-old girl in May. ...more

March 25, 2009

It was a family reunion fraught with risks involving parents fearful of deportation but more afraid that their 2-month old baby had been abducted. ...more

March 25, 2009

A 2-month-old baby has been reunited with her parents more than 24 hours after a woman impersonating an immigration official took the child from her mother. ...more

March 24, 2009

Investigators have identified the man who stabbed a police dog and was shot dead by a Citrus County sheriff's deputy as 26-year-old Dominic Giacobbe. ...more

March 24, 2009