Monday, March 25, 2013
We compile the odd, unusual "oh my gosh" police items from throughout the Tampa Bay region.
Pasco County Sheriff’s deputies are going to the public to try and find information on a man who has exposed his sex organ in public several times. On Feb. 20, a black man got a Pasco County Public Transit bus at Gulf View Square Mall around 4:45 p.m., according to the Sheriff's Office. He exposed his sex organ and masturbated while looking at a female passenger. Tampa police say someone broke into a South Tampa apartment and made off with a silver Dell laptop. Before leaving, the suspect also grabbed a few grocery items, too. In addition to the laptop, police say the suspect took two pounds of bananas, a gallon of milk, two cartons of eggs and a gallon of ice cream. The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office has arrested an 18-year-old suspect…
Monday, March 18, 2013
We compile the odd, unusual "oh my gosh" police items from throughout the Tampa Bay region.
Imagine answering your phone and being told that if you don’t send the caller a certain amount of money, they’ll kill your son. It might sound like something terrible or the plot of a Hollywood drama, but the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office says it’s happening in Land O’ Lakes. “They get the victim acting on their emotions to go immediately to a store and send the money instead of calling their relative,” a Sheriff’s Office spokesperson writes in a press release. In recent incidents, the callers have told victims that a family member was involved in a traffic accident in which they were at fault. In one case the caller told a man that he was holding his son in his basement and if his demands weren’t met, he would “bury him in a hole.” In …
Monday, March 11, 2013
We compile the odd, unusual ‘oh my gosh’ police items from throughout the Tampa Bay region.
A 12-year-old boy was arrested and charged with throwing a deadly missile after authorities say he threw a Gatorade bottle from a school bus. According the Pasco County Sheriff's Office, the Weightman Middle School student "intentionally and maliciously" threw the nearly full bottle from the window while the bus was in motion. An osprey that was found shot in East Lake has had its injured wing amputated. The female osprey was found injured Saturday morning near the Pinellas Trail, just off East Lake Road and across from East Lake United Methodist Church. Ospreys are protected by Florida statute and federal law. A Tarpon Springs man has been accused of striking a doctor at Florida Hospital North Pinellas "three to four times" with his car …
Monday, March 4, 2013
We compile the odd, unusual ‘oh my gosh’ police items from throughout the Tampa Bay region.
A Temple Terrace man claiming to be a reserve deputy has been arrested by the Temple Terrace Police Department for impersonating an officer. Police became suspicious of Daniel Rangel Jr., 22 of Tampa, after he seemed uncertain of jurisdictional boundary when he spoke with police. Rangel Jr. is a member of the Hillsborough Sheriff's Office Volunteer Citizen Patrol Program. St. Petersburg Police have arrested and charged 22-year-old Robert Spalla with impersonating a St. Pete Fire & Rescue firefighter. Police say starting in November 2012, when one of his family members was in All Children's Hospital, he began to pose as a firefighter at the hospital. Spalla would be seen wearing jumpsuits or T-shirt with "fire department type logos" on …
Monday, February 25, 2013
We compile the odd, unusual ‘oh my gosh’ police items from throughout the Tampa Bay region.
A New Port Richey man sent his ex-girlfriend nearly 240 text messages over the course of several hours Tuesday, according to the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office. An arrest report says Steven Horlacher sent 239 text messages “harassing and threatening" his ex-girlfriend, who he used to live with, and her current boyfriend. One reads ”Well im going to intentionally hurt you….I hope you *expletive* die tonight on ur birthday..” A Pinellas County Sheriff's deputy chose to resign Monday in lieu of termination after an internal investigation found he had misrepresented the facts about an off-duty encounter with a prostitute and violated other department rules, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. Robert F. Johnson, 42, had worked at …
Monday, February 18, 2013
We compile the odd, unusual ‘oh my gosh’ police items from throughout the Tampa Bay region.
Police were investigating the deaths of a man and woman whose bodies were found by a teenage girl in a New Port Richey home in an apparent murder-suicide. The girl, who was the daughter of the woman found in the house, came home Monday, entered the house and found the man's body hanging inside. At that point, she called the authorities. She did not see her mother's body. It looks like the woman died "as a result of homicidal violence characterized as blunt force trauma," said New Port Richey Police Chief James Steffens. Two former employees of TradeWinds Resort are accused of embezzling more than $780,000 from the St. Pete Beach hotel, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday. Detectives say the resort's former head of the …
Monday, February 11, 2013
We compile the odd, unusual ‘oh my gosh’ police items from throughout the Tampa Bay region.
Pinellas County Sheriff's detectives say a man robbed a Dunedin convenience store three times within the past month, including a Feb. 7 smash-and-grab burglary in which he allegedly took 100 scratch-off lottery tickets. A fingerprint lifted from a stolen lottery ticket helped link Palm Harbor's Trevor David Winsett, 24, to the robberies at Munchee's. Detectives say Winsett gave the lottery tickets to his brother to repay a debt. Winsett's brother went with his girlfriend to cash the winning tickets a few hours later at a Palm Harbor 7-Eleven, authorities said. A deputy U.S. Marshal suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound when a gun accidentally went off at the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office shooting range in St. Petersburg, authorities …
Monday, February 4, 2013
We compile the odd, unusual ‘oh my gosh’ police items from throughout the Tampa Bay region.
A man in a wheelchair just trying to shop at a Sarasota Walgreens overnight Tuesday was punched and robbed outside the store by a couple who are now being sought by the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office. A man and a woman approached the 45-year-old victim as he came out of store just after midnight Tuesday and attempted to buy his prescriptions, but he had only purchased over-the-counter allergy medicine, according to the sheriff's office. When the victim attempted to get into his car, the male suspect tried to grab the man’s satchel from around his neck, authorities said. When he couldn’t pull the satchel away, the suspect hit the victim multiple times in the face before fleeing. The suspects, seen in surveillance footage, are still wanted…
Monday, January 28, 2013
We compile the odd, unusual ‘oh my gosh’ police items from throughout the Tampa Bay region.
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Monday, January 28
A 28-year-old suspect driving without a license has been captured by deputies after trying to ram a patrol car and leading officers on a chase through Bradenton and Palmetto, according to the Manatee County Sheriff's Office. The chase ended when Bryan Johnson, the suspect, tried to exit his own vehicle and jump into a vehicle driven by his 67-year-old mother, whom he had phoned to pick him up. Johnson faces charges that include: aggravated assault on an office, fleeing to elude, habitual driver without a license, vehicle pursuit and cocaine possession, according to the Manatee County Sheriff's Office. A getaway vehicle wasn’t necessary for one Tampa thief. According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, the man swiped a ride from …
Monday, January 21, 2013
We compile the odd, unusual ‘oh my gosh’ police items from throughout the Tampa Bay region.
An 18-year-old Bradenton man was arrested on battery charges after he was accused of giving strangers wedgies outside of a local movie theater. Charles Ross has filmed himself on Anna Maria Island kissing strangers, doing the trust test with strangers and even panhandling in reverse by giving people dollars on street corners because he's doing well. His videos have received hundreds of thousands of hits on YouTube, but his latest stunt apparently went too far. Ross was arrested Jan. 13 on charges of battery with non-serious injury. He was released on a $750 bond. A 5-year-old Jack Russell terrier named Snoopy is dead after police said a car allegedly ran him over on purpose. According to St. Petersburg Police, a blue, foor-door sedan was …
