Hillsborough Dentist Charged with Two Counts of DUI Manslaughter

Riverview dentist Matthew R. Moye was charged with two counts of DUI manslaughter, two counts of vehicular homicide, DUI with property damage or personal injury and battery on a law enforcement officer this weekend after a single car accident that... [Read More]

Personal Trainer Gets Death Sentence in Clearwater Double Homicide

Former personal trainer Richard T. Robards was sentenced to death Friday for the 2006 murders of Clearwater couple, Linda and Frank Deluca. Robards was convicted earlier this year. The jury recommended a death sentence by a 7-5 vote but a... [Read More]

80-Year-Old Pleads Guilty in Brooksville Lottery Scheme

An 80-year-old Brooksville woman pleaded guilty earlier this month to organized fraud and illegal structuring of financial transactions. Doris Siegel admitted to scamming elderly friends and neighbors of more than $1 million in a lottery scheme. Siegel and her criminal... [Read More]

Tampa Pain Clinic Doc, Assistant Sent to Prison for Medicare, Prescription Fraud

Dr. Jeffrey Friedlander was sentenced earlier this month to nine years in federal prison for conspiring to defraud Medicare and for illegally prescribing drugs oxycodone, morphine, hydrocodone and alprazolam. His physician’s assistant Troy Wubbena received a ten year sentence for... [Read More]

Brandon Man Pleads Guilty to Murder, Avoids Death Penalty

Earlier this month, twenty-year-old Brendan Lee Terry pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of second-degree murder and kidnapping, related to the murder of Robert Brewer in May. Terry was sentenced to 30 years in prison, avoiding a possible death sentence... [Read More]

Bradenton Man Sentenced for Tax Fraud

Joseph Nelson Sweet of Bradenton was sentenced to 10 years in prison earlier this month for his involvement in a Tampa-based tax avoidance scheme. As a result of the advice that Sweet sold to 1,300 people nationwide, the government believes... [Read More]

Tampa Mortgage Broker Sentenced to Federal Prison for Fraud

Tampa mortgage broker Peter Bakowski was sentenced to 15 years, 8 months in federal prison for false statements related to a mortgage fraud scheme this month. He was also ordered to pay $16.1 million in restitution. According to court documents... [Read More]

Former St. Petersburg Pharmacist Pleads Guilty to Prescription Fraud

Former St. Petersburg pharmacist Adam Nagy pleaded guilty earlier this month in a Tampa federal courtroom to conspiring to act outside the scope of his professional pharmacy practice by dispensing and distributing oxycodone. Nagy, who is only 30 years old... [Read More]

Life Sentence in Bradenton Murder Trial of Quadriplegic Teen

Defense attorneys and prosecutors in Bradenton had an interesting job last week as the trial of Ta Heem Blake began. The lawyers were charged with selecting a jury from a 76-member jury pool in the quadriplegic teenager’s first-degree murder trial.... [Read More]