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August 12, 2020 By: Staff Report PLANT CITY, Fla. – United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Wilmer Rosales (22, Plant City), a/k/a “DoubleU,” and Joel Sierra (25, Plant City), a/k/a “Jojo,” with conspiring to traffic in controlled substances, conspiring to…
Read More Plant City Man Indicted For Murder In a Park Near Elementary School
August 12, 2020 By: LEO Round Table, Chip DeBlock TAMPA, Fla.- Discussed today are concerns that police officers across the country are being targeted by thugs with a lot of times on their hands. Also mentioned: Puyallup (Washington) Police Chief Scott Engle and Wauwatosa (Wisconsin)…
Read More Warning: Police Officers, Family And Property Are Being Targeted, LEO Round TableAugust 12, 2020 By: Staff Report DAVENPORT, Fla.- United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Daniel John Ferrer (29, Davenport) has pleaded guilty to making a false statement while attempting to purchase a firearm. Ferrer faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal…
Read More Polk County Man, Pleads Guilty Federal Firearms Case
August 12, 2020 By: Staff Report FROSTPROOF, Fla.- U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven, on Tuesday, sentenced Mario Alberto Rivas. 50, Frostproof, to 10 years in federal prison for conspiring with others to possess with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine. …
Read More Frostproof Methamphetamine Trafficker, 10-Years In Federal Prison
August 12, 2020 By: Staff Report MARION COUNTY, Fla. – According to the Ocala Star-Banner, a Gannett owned Newspaper, Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods told his employees they are not to wear masks at work and visitors coming into the Sheriff’s Office can’t wear masks…
Read More Florida Sheriff Bans Deputies From Wearing Masks
August 12, 2020 By: Staff Report TAMPA, Fla. – Update here, Sheriff Releases Arrest Video and Mugshots. Sheriff Chronister and Attorney General Ashley Moody held a Press Conference on Wednesday to update the public on ‘Operation Small Talk’, a 3- day online operation that involved…
Read More ‘Extreme and Vulgar Actions’, 16- Arrested in Operation Small Talk
August 11, 2020 By: LEO Round Table- Chip DeBlock TAMPA, Fla. – Discussed today, safety pointers for retired LEO’s whose lives may still be in danger from aggressors. A great lineup of show panelists: Chip DeBlock (Host and retired police Detective) Bret Bartlett (retired police…
Read More Law Enforcement Safety After Retirement: Blocking Info, CCF, LEO Round Table
August 11, 2020 By: Staff Report, HCSO PR TAMPA, Fla.- CLICK HERE FOR AN UPDATE TO THIS STORY. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office identified 16 men who solicited sex with undercover detectives they believed were minors online and on various social media platforms. With the assistance…
Read More Sexual Predators 16-Men Arrested in Online Sting “Operation Small Talk”
August 11, 2020 By: Staff Report, HCSO PR TAMPA, Fla. – The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office is requesting the public’s assistance in locating a man who burglarized a Wendy’s in Tampa. On Sunday, August 2, 2020, at 11:00 p.m., a man, identified as Kelvin Barnes,…
Read More ‘We Have Clear Video Of The Suspect’ HCSO Looking for Tampa Wendy’s Burglar
August 11, 2020 By: Staff Report LAKELAND, Fla.- The Lakeland Police Department is continuing to investigate traffic crash that occurred during the early morning hours after the driver of a stolen vehicle collided with another car near the 1000 block of George Jenkins Boulevard. On…
Read More 10-Month Old Infant Lifeflighted After George Jenkins Blvd Crash Lakeland