November 18, 2010
by
K. McKinney
Dona Joyner of Largo was charged with child neglect and driving under the influence with accident and injury, after a single car accident in October injured a two-year-old. Joyner was arrested Sunday after test results showed that her blood alcohol...
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Locations: Florida
Criminal Charges:
Felonies,
Vehicular Crimes
October 31, 2010
by
K. McKinney
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...
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Locations: Florida
Criminal Charges:
Felonies,
Vehicular Crimes
October 30, 2010
by
K. McKinney
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...
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Locations: Florida
Criminal Charges:
Felonies,
Violent Crimes
October 27, 2010
by
K. McKinney
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...
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October 23, 2010
by
K. McKinney
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...
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October 22, 2010
by
K. McKinney
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...
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October 21, 2010
by
K. McKinney
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...
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October 20, 2010
by
K. McKinney
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...
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October 19, 2010
by
K. McKinney
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...
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Locations: Florida
Criminal Charges:
Drug Crimes,
Felonies
October 18, 2010
by
K. McKinney
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....
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Locations: Florida
Criminal Charges:
Felonies,
Violent Crimes
September 30, 2010
by
K. McKinney
A mistrial was declared Monday afternoon in the federal drug trial of reggae star Buju Banton. Jurors, sitting in the federal court in Tampa, advised the judge that they were divided over the verdict after three days of deliberations. “We...
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Locations: Florida
Criminal Charges:
Drug Crimes,
Felonies
September 29, 2010
by
K. McKinney
Firm News
A Pasco County judge this week rescheduled the murder trial of John Ditullio Jr. (who is represented by the Law Offices of Bjorn Brunvand) for December 6th. Ditullio faces first-degree murder and attempted murder charges related to the March 2006...
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Locations: Florida
Criminal Charges:
Felonies,
Violent Crimes
September 25, 2010
by
K. McKinney
Jean Campbell was a receptionist at a St. Petersburg doctor’s office. She was arrested last week by the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office on drug charges related to prescription drugs. Campbell has been charged with four counts of obtaining a controlled...
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Locations: Florida
Criminal Charges:
Drug Crimes,
Felonies
September 24, 2010
by
K. McKinney
Firm News
The second murder trial of John Ditullio Jr. was continued this week by Pasco County Circuit Judge Michael Andrews, at the request of Ditullio (whose defense attorney is Bjorn Brunvand of this office). The case was first tried last December...
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Locations: Florida
Criminal Charges:
Felonies,
Violent Crimes
September 21, 2010
by
K. McKinney
A Hillsborough County jury deliberated for over five hours last week after hearing evidence in the state’s prosecution of Dr. John Mubang for drug trafficking. Five jurors voted to find the Mubang not guilty; the other juror believed he should...
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Locations: Florida
Criminal Charges:
Drug Crimes,
Felonies