Hillsborough County, Florida criminal law news and events
After a two-and-a-half month trial and almost three weeks of deliberation, a federal jury in Tampa found four health care corporation executives guilty of charges of submitting fraudulent reports to the state Medicaid program. The execs were found not guilty... [Read More]
Locations: Florida, Hillsborough County, Tampa
Criminal Charges: White Collar CrimesJennifer Meier Hunt, a former employee at Tampa-based staffing agency Kforce, pleaded guilty this week to charges related to stealing workers’ identity information for use in tax refund fraud. Hunt was charged in federal court in Tampa with theft of... [Read More]
Locations: Florida, Hillsborough County, Tampa
Criminal Charges: White Collar CrimesSeventy-one year old Ralph Wald, a retired Army colonel, retired lawyer and Vietnam veteran, is on trial this week in Tampa for the March 10 killing of Walter Lee Conley, 32. Wald is charged with second-degree murder for shooting Conley... [Read More]
Locations: Brandon, Florida, Hillsborough County
Criminal Charges: Violent CrimesOver the weekend, a 40-year-old man was arrested at Tampa International Airport, accused of driving while intoxicated with his 6-year-old son in the car. An airport police officer stopped Bradley Walker Younger about 9 p.m. after receiving reports of an... [Read More]
Locations: Florida, Hillsborough County, Tampa
Criminal Charges: DUIFormer Tampa Bay area attorney Lawrence Hartman was deported by Nicaraguan authorities deported last week and sent back to Florida where he faces fraud charges in Tampa’s federal court. He is accused of participating in a $137 million fraud and... [Read More]
Locations: Florida, Hillsborough County, Tampa
Criminal Charges: White Collar CrimesKenneth Ray Jackson was scheduled to be sentenced this week after having been convicted of raping and killing Cuc Thu Tran, a Seffner mother of three, in 2007. The hearing was rescheduled for June 5. A jury found Jackson guilty... [Read More]
Locations: Florida, Hillsborough County, Seffner
Criminal Charges: Violent CrimesJohn “Andrew” Welden, the son of a Lutz fertility doctor, has been charged with first-degree murder and product tampering in Tampa’s federal court. Federal prosecutors alleged Welden killed an ex-girlfriend’s unborn child by tricking her into taking an abortion drug... [Read More]
Locations: Florida, Hillsborough County, Lutz
According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, Charles Anthony Foster of Seffner was charged with the murder of two Seffner roommates last week in a mobile home park near Interstate 4. Foster has been charged with two counts of first-degree... [Read More]
After three weeks of trial, testimony continues in a Tampa federal courtroom in the Medicaid fraud trial of four former WellCare executives. Former executives at the Tampa-based health care plan company, Todd Farha, Paul Behrens, William Kale and Peter Clay... [Read More]
A federal district court judge in Tampa sentenced Russell B. Simmons, Jr. to 15 years in federal prison this week, almost the maximum sentence under federal guidelines. Simmons was accused of tax fraud which netted him almost $2 million. Simmons... [Read More]
Last week, Hillsborough County commissioners unanimously passed an ordinance that will fine people selling synthetic drugs such as bath salts and synthetic marijuana up to $500 for each package. They hope it will persuade store owners countywide to take the... [Read More]
Locations: Florida, Hillsborough County
Criminal Charges: Drug CrimesProsecutors in Hillsborough Countywill have state-retained psychologists evaluate Julie Schenecker, in order to offer an opinion to the court as to the New Tampa mother’s mental state at the time of the fatal shooting her two children in 2011. Schenecker... [Read More]
Locations: Florida, Hillsborough County
Trial began this week in Hillsborough County against 46-year-old Chunping Lin, who is charged with second-degree murder in the 2011 death of his wife Lixin Tian. Tian died in July 2011 after being removed from life support, following a May... [Read More]
Hillsborough County law enforcement used DNA evidence and technology to identify Otano Anton Leggett, currently a Florida state prison inmate, as a suspect in an early 2012 Tampa murder. Leggett is serving a two-year sentence at the Liberty Correctional Institution... [Read More]
In a case we’ve discussed here on this blog in the past, Trevor Dooley, 72 was sentenced this week to eight years in prison after being found guilty by a Hillsborough County jury of the manslaughter death of David James... [Read More]
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