Security guards at a Tampa strip club took down a man early Sunday morning wearing a red and black devil mask and carrying a loaded handgun and carrying spare magazines before he could enter the club. Surveillance video shows the man, identified as 44-year-old Michael Rudman, stroll purposefully toward the front door of Mons Venus …
It was like an Old West saloon fight, except it was outside a modern day Tampa apartment complex early Sunday morning at a New Year’s party. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office says Plasido Castro Bibiano, 37, was at the party when he got into an altercation with another man. At some point in the course …
Florida police on Saturday arrested a 21-year-old man for allegedly shooting at a homeless family as they slept in their vehicle on a Tampa street. Christopher Stamat Jr. is accused of firing more than a dozen shots at the family vehicle at about 4:30 a.m. on Wednesday, striking the pregnant mother, in her 20s, in …
A Florida man was arrested this week in Tennessee and charged with the death of a 1-year-old child earlier this month. Witnesses told Tampa police that Terin Smith, 28, hit the child during a bath on August 1 for being “whiny,” the Tampa Bay Times reported. Afterward, Smith put the baby in a crib. Other …
A 15-year-old Florida boy has been charged with vehicular homicide in a car crash last month that left a 44-year-old woman dead. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said that Calvin Sanford is being charged as an adult in the case. He was the driver of a stolen Nissan Frontier that fled from a traffic stop …
Fisherman have found human body parts in Tampa’s McKay Bay twice in the last two days, and police are hoping a tattoo found on one of them will bring some answers. A fisherman called 911 Thursday night to report the first discovery, Tampa police told Fox 13. The second discovery came Friday when another fisherman …
A Florida middle school student has been accused of selling stun guns to fellow students, the Tampa Bay Times reports. The 12-year-old girl was arrested on Friday and charged with possession of a weapon on school property. Earlier in the day, a staff member told school administrators the girl had a stun gun with her …
Authorities in Florida say a man has been arrested following the report of a domestic dispute involving condiments following a recent visit to a fast food restaurant. According to the New York Post, the incident occurred on Sunday in a Tampa hotel room. Police reports claim 30-year-old Jesus Oscar Ferrer Jr. became upset with his …
A Florida father accused of killing his 5-year-old daughter in 2015 by hurling her off a 430-foot bridge has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity as at the onset of his murder trial on Monday. The Tampa Bay Times reported that John Jonchuck stopped on the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in St. Petersburg amid a …
Authorities in Florida say an elementary school security officer has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a young girl in a room on campus. According to the New York Post, 22-year-old Malcolm Curtis Tillman had been on the staff at Booker T. Washington Elementary School in Tampa since last summer and was still working …
A Florida woman was arrested this week on suspicion of murder after a 34-year-old man was shot and stabbed in a fatal armed robbery. According to the Tampa Bay Times, 25-year-old Melissa McNutt was still behind bars at without bail as of the latest update available. She is accused of killing Salisbury, N.C., resident Justin …
The Florida mother accused of throwing her 4-year-old daughter with special needs into the Hillsborough River allegedly did so while singing the nursery rhyme “It’s Raining, It’s Pouring.” WTVT reported that a judge denied bond for Shakayla Denson, 26, the mother charged in the August 2 slaying of Je’Hyrah Daniels. Witnesses called police after reportedly seeing …
