A 47-year-old woman was arrested Tuesday after deputies say she sold a teenager her prescription painkiller. ...more

December 11, 2008

Garrey Deon Gibson continued resisting arrest Tuesday night even after being zapped by a Taser, Hillsborough County deputies say. About 9:50 p.m. at Symmes Road and North Street in Gibsonton, deputies conducted a traffic stop on Gibson. They saw him put a green leafy substance into his mouth, and they believed it was marijuana. ...more

November 19, 2008

TAMPA After being arrested Wednesday on drug charges, Christopher Allen jumped out a police cruiser's window trying to escape, Tampa police say. He was caught after a two-block chase. About 1 a.m. Wednesday, Allen entered his father's home without permission and took cash and prescription drugs, according to an arrest affidavit. ...more

November 13, 2008

Authorities say a Spring Hill man raped a 17-year-old girl while she was incapacitated by prescription painkillers. ...more

October 23, 2008

A Highlands County man with an Okeechobee address was free Tuesday on $21,000 bail after his girlfriend called the sheriff's office and reported that he had strangled her during an argument. ...more

September 17, 2008

A Highlands County man with an Okeechobee address was free Tuesday on $21,000 bail after his girlfriend called the sheriff's office and reported that he had strangled her during an argument. Deputies arrested Bruce Yates, 28, of an undisclosed Okeechobee address, charging him with felony battery or domestic violence battery by strangulation, possession of a controlled substance (Xanax) without a prescription and possession of not more than 20 grams of marijuana. ...more

September 17, 2008

TAMPA Under the influence of Oxycontin, Xanax, Soma and Oxycodone, a Riverview man drove to a Gibsonton Wal-Mart with his 5-year-old son Friday, Hillsborough County deputies say. ...more

July 26, 2008

Two men remained in Highlands County Jail on Wednesday, following their arrest late Monday or early Tuesday, after a 34-year-old man reported they beat him and forced him to give them his Xanax pills. ...more

July 17, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - All Thomas Olenick Jr. can remember about the night of July 7 is taking four Xanax, an anti-anxiety drug, and then waking up on a comforter somewhere in Stagecoach Village, according to a Pasco County Sheriff's Office report. ...more

July 15, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - All Thomas Olenick Jr. can remember about the night of July 7 is taking four Xanax, an anti-anxiety drug, and then waking up on a comforter somewhere in the Stagecoach Village, according to a Pasco Sheriff's Office report. ...more

July 14, 2008