A former track coach at St. Petersburg High School was arrested Monday, accused of having a consensual sexual relationship with a 16-year-old female student, St. Petersburg police said. Lee Edward Fictum, 32, of Pinellas Park, was charged with unlawful sexual activity with a minor, jail records say. He was being held at the Pinellas County Jail on $250,000 bail. Fictum developed a personal relationship with the girl that turned sexual in the summer of 2007, St. Petersburg police spokesman Bill Proffitt said. The girl's father became aware of the relationship and then made a report to St. Petersburg police, Proffitt said. ...more

October 7, 2008

A Largo elementary school teacher was arrested Wednesday, accused of having a sexual relationship with a teenager, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

September 25, 2008

A Largo elementary school teacher was arrested today, accused of having a sexual relationship with a teenager, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

September 24, 2008

TAMPA - Kenneth I. Liles, 36, had sex with a 16-year-old girl, police say. ...more

June 30, 2008

After getting into a verbal altercation with his 17-year-old live-in girlfriend, Jessie Antonio Dennard, 33, went on a rampage yesterday, police say, beating and kicking her to the point of unconsciousness and breaking her nose. ...more

June 21, 2008

Months ago, a Polk County principal warned a teacher now accused of having sex with at least four underage boys to stop the "hugs, tickles and flirtatious non-school related conversations" with male students, records obtained Friday show. ...more

June 7, 2008

TAMPA - A Polk County principal months ago warned a teacher now accused of having sex with at least four underage boys to stop the "hugs, tickles and flirtatious non-school related conversations" with male students, records show. ...more

June 6, 2008

Pinellas County Detectives have arrested a registered sexual predator in Clearwater and charged him with engaging in sexual activity with a 17-year-old girl on four times between March and June. Ariquer Diaz Diaz, 32, was arrested on one count of sexual performance by a child and four counts of unlawful sexual activity with a minor. Photographs depicting the victim performing a sexual act on the suspect were recovered from the victim's cellular telephone, detectives said. ...more

June 6, 2008

TAMPA - A West Palm Beach attorney says she is representing three boys who accused a Polk County schoolteacher of having sex with them. ...more

June 6, 2008

TAMPA - A 45-year-old Tampa man has been charged with having a five-year sexual relationship with a girl, starting when she was 13 years old, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. ...more

June 5, 2008