Monday, May 6, 2013
We compile the odd, unusual "oh my gosh" police items from throughout the Tampa Bay region.
A North Tampa woman has been arrested and charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child after she left her 7-month-old infant inside a bathtub with the water running for at least 15 minutes, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. The child drowned in the tub. Deputies say that Sierra McMillan, 22, of 14512 Seaford Circle placed her baby in the bathtub and turned on the water on April 28. When the doorbell rang, she left the baby in the tub with the water running, answered the door and spent time speaking with a solicitor. A Pasco County man is accused of killing a litter of pit bull puppies by whacking them with a shovel. David Thompson went to a mobile home on Catalona Avenue in Moon Lake Estates Friday, April 26 to help…
Monday, April 29, 2013
The checkpoint will be set up at 50th Street, north of Fowler Avenue.
The Temple Terrace Police Department is hosting a multiagency Comprehensive Roadside Safety Checkpoint in the early morning hours of Wednesday, May 1, at 50th Street, north of Fowler Avenue. The checkpoint will begin at 1 a.m., and additional units will be conducting a saturation patrol in the area between midnight and 4 a.m., according to a press release from the City of Temple Terrace. The effort will include the Temple Terrace Police Department, Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office and University of South Florida Police Department. “The Temple Terrace Police Department recognizes that Driving Under the Influence (DUI) is a serious public safety problem and that Hillsborough County has consistently ranked among the top counties in the …
We compile the odd, unusual "oh my gosh" police items from throughout the Tampa Bay region.
A 47-year-old woman faces a charge of misusing the 911 call response system, after police say she demanded that officers get her $50 back from a drug dealer, according to the Tampa Bay Times. Katrina Tisdale was arrested Monday night and booked into the Pinellas County Jail. According to jail records, this is the second time that Tisdale was jailed for misusing the 911 system, after a similar incident in 2011, the Times reports. Armed with a machete, a man reportedly attacked his grandmother in Plant City on April 20 after an earlier "physical dispute," according to a report from the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. The report notes that at about 4:28 p.m., Anthony Wayne Griffith, 34, of the 7600 block of Loghouse Road, and his 75-…
Sunday, April 28, 2013
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office has an online tool residents can use to keep up with the area’s most-wanted fugitives.
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office has an online tool residents can use to keep up with the area’s most-wanted fugitives.
The Internet is fast becoming the new “post office” for law enforcement agencies that want to make sure photos of their most wanted fugitives make it into circulation. Instead of just hanging posters on post office walls, law enforcement agencies these days are creating webpages to get the word out to area residents. Some are even using social media outlets like Facebook as tools in the fight against crime. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office has its own online “post office” wall. Dubbed “Find-a-Fugitive,” the webpage features the photos and some background information on the county’s Top 10 most wanted. It also shares photos of deadbeat parents and “dangerous drivers.” Cristal Bermudez Nunez, sheriff’s office spokeswoman, said the …
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Police responded to 27 calls, including a hit and run and a runaway.
To view previous call logs, visit the Temple Terrace Police website.
Monday, April 22, 2013
We compile the odd, unusual "oh my gosh" police items from throughout the Tampa Bay region.
A man walked in to the Macy's store at Brandon Westfield mall last week and quickly ran back out of the store with a stack of clothes in his arms, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. In video provided by the sheriff's office, a man can be seen walking into the store at 5:38 p.m. on April 8. After stopping near a table, he moves back toward the exit and quickly leaves the store. In his arms, he has 10 blue Ralph Lauren Polo shirts for which he did not pay, deputies say. The shirts are valued at $750. A 75-year-old man who shot another driver during an altercation did not make the first move, authorities say. Pasco County Sheriff's deputies continue to investigate the Land O' Lakes shooting, which occurred Saturday in the …
The blaze happened Tuesday, April 16.
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Three men robbed 56th Street Sweeps, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office.
Friday, April 19, 2013
The guns were collected by the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office during Operation Gun Swap in February.
Wondering what happened to all those guns the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office bought from residents back in February? Here’s the answer: “The nation’s largest single day gun swap came to a fiery finish at a steel mill, where the rifles, shotguns, and handguns were incinerated in a 3,200-degree furnace,” the sheriff’s office wrote in a media release. “The melted metal that was once weapons will become rebar and coat hangers.” February’s Operation Gun Swap drew residents from all over the county who wanted to trade in their unwanted firearms for vouchers worth $75 each. All told, the sheriff’s office paid out more than $200,000 for the guns. Funding came from the Shimberg Foundation and the sheriff’s office forfeiture fund, said Capt. …
Alex
2:53 pm on Wednesday, April 24, 2013
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