Illinois Man Sentenced To Five Years In Federal Prison For Viewing Child Sex Abuse Images While Traveling On A Commercial Airplane

Tampa, Florida – U.S. District Judge Thomas P. Barber has sentenced Donald Max Ingram (70, Illinois) to five years in federal prison for possessing and viewing images of children being sexually abused…

Convicted Felon Sentenced To More Than 14 Years In Federal Prison For Possessing Firearms And Narcotics

Tampa, Florida – U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew has sentenced Leon Grant, Jr. (40, St. Petersburg) to 14 years and 2 months in federal prison for possession with the intent to…

Convicted Rapist And Armed Robber Who Assumed Another’s Identity For More Than 40 Years Pleads Guilty To Federal Charges

Tampa, Florida – Douglas Edward Bennett (77, Clearwater) has pleaded guilty to passport fraud, aggravated identity theft, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. He faces a maximum penalty of…

Senate Confirms Alleged Eco-Terrorist Collaborator To Lead Bureau Of Land Management

The Senate vote 50-45 on a party-line vote Thursday to confirm President Joe Biden’s Bureau of Land Management nominee amid strong opposition from Republicans and former Obama administration officials over the nominee’s…

Tampa Man Sentenced To Prison For Role In Gun Smuggling Ring

Tampa, Florida – U.S. District Judge Mary Scriven has sentenced Sergio David Hernandez-Zuluaga (41, Tampa) to one year and one day in federal prison for providing a firearm to a prohibited person.…

Police dashcam captures shocking lightning strikes over Pier 60

CLEARWATER, FL – Police in Clearwater are advising beachgoers to get off the beach and out of harm’s way during a passing storm that had several bolts of lightning strike in the…

Tide swallows car parked on protected beach along Courtney Campbell Causeway

CLEARWATER, FL – A car parked in a restricted habitat area along the Courtney Campbell Causeway was swallowed up by the incoming tide. “Always pay attention to signs and barriers that try…

Forest service protections sought for wolves in Idaho, Montana wilderness areas

BOZEMAN, Montana—A coalition of wildlife advocates and hunters, represented by the non-profit environmental law firm Earthjustice, today asked the U.S. Forest Service to issue new protections for wolves in designated wilderness areas…

Youngstown meth dealers indicted

Acting U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced today that a federal grand jury returned a 16-count indictment charging six individuals in the Youngstown-Warren area for their roles in a methamphetamine drug trafficking…

Gambler who lost $380 on slot machine threatened to blow up Hard Rock Casino

HOLLYWOOD, FL – A woman who lost $380 on slots at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino was so angry that instead of asking for a manager, she called the casino and said…

U.S. 19 shut down after vehicle crashes into a stationary police cruiser

CLEARWATER, FL – A police officer escaped injury, but not the driver who crashed into his patrol car parked as he was conducting a motor vehicle stop. Southbound U.S. 19 was closed…

Accomplice who freed viral video spring breaker from cop car arrested

CLEARWATER, FL – He said he wanted to be famous and now he is, the Clearwater Police Department said. 18-year-old Adam Asad of Oldsmar was captured in a now-viral video opening the…

Spring breaker flees police in Clearwater

Handcuffed, Florida spring breaker runs from police, goes viral

Clearwater, FL – About the only thing going good for spring breaker Dominic Glass, 18, of Land O’ Lakes was that he has become an instant TikTok sensation. That happened after a…

Police car struck by drunk driver as officer at previous DWI crash call

CLEARWATER, FL – Clearwater police officers had their hands full with drunk drivers last night. Police reported three drunk drivers were charged overnight after a series of crashes. At one crash site,…

Federal Jury Convicts Last Two Defendants in Prescription Fraud Conspiracy

BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA – A federal jury today convicted two defendants in a long-running investigation into a prescription drug billing scheme involving a Haleyville, Ala.-based pharmacy, Northside Pharmacy doing business as Global Compounding…

After stealing woman’s sunglasses, suspect says “I’m a cop”

HERNANDO COUNTY, FL – On Thursday,at 4:37 p.m., Hernando County Sheriff’s deputies responded to the Timber Pines Resident Activity Center in reference to a report of a suspicious person. As deputies arrived…

Fentanyl Dealer Gets 10 Years in Prison

TAMPA, FLORIDA – U.S. District Judge William F. Jung has sentenced Kwame’ Leon Weaver (31, Clearwater) to 10 years in federal prison for possessing a mixture of fentanyl, acetylfentanyl, and heroin with…

AG Becerra sues five companies for selling seafood products containing lead and cadmium without a warning

SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed a lawsuit against five importers, distributors, and wholesalers of seafood for violations of Proposition 65 and California’s Unfair Competition Law. Testing conducted by the…

Child Rapist on the Run for 40 Years Used Identity of Dead Child

Tampa, Florida – United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announced the arrest and filing of a criminal complaint charging Douglas E. Bennett (76, Clearwater) with passport fraud and aggravated identity theft. Bennett…

New Jersey Trump Boat Parade Shatters Guinness World Record

TOMS RIVER, NJ – Until Saturday, the Guinness World Record for the largest ever boat parade. The existing record is officially 1,080 vessels. That parade was held in Terengganu, Malaysia in 2014. …

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