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Russell B. Simmon Jr., operator of Simmons Auto Sales on 34th Street in Tampa was indicted on fraud charges this week, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office in Tampa. The used car dealer is accused of accepting fraudulent tax refund... [Read More]
Over Memorial Day weekend, Winter Haven resident William Cornwell, a U.S. Navy veteran and security guard at Winter Haven Hospital, shot and killed 40-year-old Christopher Brian Deese. Polk County Sheriff’s deputies report that Deese broke into Cornwell’s home and challenged... [Read More]
The state attorney’s office for Manatee County has declined to charge 19-year-old Davell Kendricks with manslaughter for the New Year’s Day death of Rashawn Scott. According to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office, Kendricks and Scott were playing cards with a... [Read More]
Sanjeev Grover, a Lutz physician, was sentenced this week to five years in federal prison for distributing the painkiller oxycodone outside the scope of his practice. Grover also was ordered to relinquish his medical license with the state and his... [Read More]
Two local businessmen were named in a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday accusing them of conspiring to profit from fraudulent tax refund checks. Osama “Sam” Mahmud Mustafa of Riverview and Khaldoun “Tony” Khalil Khawaja of Tampa, as well as Khawaja’s brother... [Read More]
Seventeen-year-old Gerald Terrell Jones of Brandon was acquitted of attempted second-degree murder by a Hillsborough County jury earlier this month. Jones previously admitted to shooting his drug dealer in the face after a drug deal went bad. The trial judge... [Read More]
As reported in the Tampa Bay Times, a Pinellas-Pasco judge granted a hearing for Stephanie Spurgeon to determine if there is evidence to support a dismissal or new trial in a manslaughter case pending against her. Spurgeon, a Palm Harbor... [Read More]
Prosecutors in Polk County charged Christopher Whaley of Lake Wales with first-degree murder this weekend after he allegedly confessed to stabbing and killing his 69-year-old grandmother in the mobile home they shared. Authorities say Whaley told them he had an... [Read More]
Salvador Rojo Medina was charged this weekend in Clearwater with driving while intoxicated. Clearwater police first alerted to Rojo Medina’s car when he reportedly threw a beer can out the window of his truck window while driving eastbound on Sunset... [Read More]
Ashraf Ali Abukhdeir of Tampa was charged in Polk County with selling synthetic marijuana out of his Winter Haven convenience store. Undercover Polk County sheriff’s detectives arrested Abukhdeir after he allegedly sold them the synthetic marijuana K-2. Detectives served a... [Read More]
Federal prosecutors in Tampa unsealed a thirty-count indictment this week charging Luis Duluc, formerly of Weston, Florida, and Margarita Grishkoff of North Carolina with conspiracy to commit health care fraud, and additional substantive counts of health care fraud, making false... [Read More]
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Criminal Charges: Felonies, White Collar CrimesJoshua Davis was denied bail by a Polk County judge this week. Davis faces two charges of first-degree murder, one charge of attempted murder and one charge of child abuse in the deaths of two Polk State College students and... [Read More]
A Hillsborough County jury took found Oscar Ray Bolin Jr. guilty Thursday in the 1986 stabbing death of Natalie Blanche Holley. A judge then sentenced him to life in prison. Bolin had previously been charged with first-degree murder in the... [Read More]
As reported by both the Tampa Tribune and the Tampa Bay Times, defense attorney Bjorn Brunvand represents accused murderer Oscar Ray Bolin in his retrial on murder charges this week. Bolin is charged in Hillsborough County with the 1986 murder... [Read More]
As reported in the Tampa Bay Times, five Tampa Bay area defense lawyers, including Bjorn Brunvand of this office, are seeking a federal civil rights investigation of the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office over allegations that narcotics detectives have trespassed and... [Read More]
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