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Unsurprisingly, Hillsborough County prosecutors have agreed to dismiss a DUI charge against Tampa morning news anchor Russell Rhodes. In exchange, Rhodes will plead no contest to misdemeanor obstruction of justice charges later this week. Rhodes’ DUI defense attorney negotiated the... [Read More]
Locations: Florida
Criminal Charges: Vehicular CrimesBack in January, Channel 13 morning news anchor Russell Rhodes was arrested for obstruction of justice. Prosecutors claim Rhodes was driving recklessly through a parking garage when an off-duty Hillsborough County Sheriff’s deputy stopped his car. The deputy tried to... [Read More]
Locations: Florida
Criminal Charges: Vehicular CrimesGerald Amison of Dade City appeared in a Pasco County courtroom this week to finally resolve a three-year-old marijuana possession charge. His simple misdemeanor drug case ended up in front of the Florida Court of Appeals this spring. And now... [Read More]
Locations: Florida
Criminal Charges: Drug CrimesThe capital murder trial of John Lee Hampton is under way in Pinellas County this week. Hampton faces the death penalty if he is convicted of murdering Lashonda McKinnes in June, 2007 at her apartment in north Clearwater. Opening statements... [Read More]
Kenneth Delmar Stewart pleaded guilty to five counts of DUI manslaughter and two counts of DUI with serious bodily injury this week in Hillsborough County Circuit Court. Stewart’s sentencing is scheduled for July 17 but his plea agreement with prosecutors... [Read More]
Prosecutors in Tampa have announced that they will seek the death penalty against Richard Anthony McTear Jr. if he is convicted of murdering 3-month-old Emanuel Wesley Murray in May. McTear is accused of throwing the infant on a concrete floor... [Read More]
Three Pinellas County residents were arrested last week in a Florida-wide crackdown on marijuana grow houses. The multi-jurisdictional push was referred to by law enforcement as “Operation Eagle Claw” and netted 142 arrests and more than 6,800 marijuana plants seized... [Read More]
The Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida showed how seriously they’re taking marine pollution and government record-keeping requirements this month. A joint investigation and prosecution between those offices... [Read More]
Shawn Ledesma was supposed to be sentenced this week for vehicular homicide in the St. Petersburg death of 14-year-old Raquel Carreras back in 2007. The sentencing was continued to September, the same month that Shawn’s mother Lesa Ledesma will face... [Read More]
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