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LAKELAND, Fla – The Polk County Sheriff’s Office detained a substitute English teacher at New Beginnings High School, a charter school in Lakeland, on suspicion of having sexual contact with two of his female students. 33-year old Jerron Dunn of Lakeland is being charged charged…
Read More Lakeland Substitute Teacher Charged With Sex Offenses Against 2 Students On Snapchat
An Oklahoma man and a Georgia man were both sentenced in Florida for their participation in a transnational tax fraud scheme. Adetunji Adejumo, 44, Oklahoma City, OK, and Ibrahim Jinadu, 35, Atlanta, GA, were sentenced to 33 and 27 months in prison, respectively. Both individuals…
Read More Oklahoma And Georgia Men Both Sentenced In Florida For Transnational Tax Scheme
On today’s LEO Round Table, we discuss a case that finds a cop had the legal right to ask for a passenger ID, officers’ actions were found not justified after shooting a knife-wielding man, a retired cop shot dead inside a store, and much more. The…
Read More Officers’ Actions Found Not Justified After Shooting Knife-Wielding Man, LEO Round Table
TAMPA, Fla. – A 40-year-old Tampa man is behind bars after investigators say he made vile threats to the Hillsborough County Tax Collector’s Office. On Wednesday, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office’s Criminal Investigation Division was alerted to a series of alarming online threats targeting the…
Read More Tampa Man Arrested After Threatening Hillsborough County Tax Collector’s Office
In recent years, the threat of cyber attacks targeting critical infrastructure has become increasingly prevalent. One such incident occurred in western Pennsylvania on Saturday, where the Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa fell victim to a cyber attack by an Iranian-backed hacktivist collective known as Cyber…
Read More Feds Investigating After A Pennsylvania Water Authority Hacked By Iranian-Backed Cyber Group
Authorities busted a massive suspected Chinese illegal marijuana grow in Maine Tuesday, Wilton Police Department Chief Ethan Kyes said in a statement. The Daily Caller News Foundation recently visited the site, which the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had identified in an internal memo this reporter obtained in August…
Read More Police Bust Massive Suspected Chinese Illegal Marijuana Grow In Maine
A former major of the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office in Virginia was found guilty by a federal jury on November 17 for engaging in abusive sexual contact with a minor who was under the age of 12. The conviction comes after a five-day jury trial…
Read More Former Virginia Sheriff’s Deputy Convicted In Florida For Putting His Hand Up Skirt Of 9-Year-Old
A Florida man entered a guilty plea in federal court Wednesday to the production of visual depictions involving sexual exploitation of minors. Frederick Anderson Bowen, 76, of Lake Placid, Florida, recorded himself performing oral sex on a child. Highlands County Sheriff’s Office deputies located the…
Read More 76-Year-Old Florida Man Pleads Guilty To Producing Child Pornography
A senior Pentagon official was arrested in a human trafficking sting operation conducted in Coweta County, Georgia. The suspect, Stephen Hovanic, 64, the chief of staff for the Americas division of the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) has been placed on leave. As chief…
Read More Top Pentagon Official Arrested In Georgia Human Trafficking Sting
On today’s LEO Round Table, we discuss a prosecutor’s skepticism when facts are brought in court against cops, Derek Chauvin stabbed in jail, a naked woman on shrooms attacks airport goers on video, and much more. The Tampa Free Press will publish LEO Round Table talk show five…
Read More Naked Woman On Shrooms Attacks Airport Goers On Video, LEO Round Table