Tampa Bay Area, Florida criminal law news and events
Former 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 CrimesAfter 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]
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]
Back in May of 2011, Mervin Bettis attempted to shoplift $1,100 worth of razor blade cartridges from a Target store on Hillsborough Avenue in Tampa. Retired FBI agent Russell Horner was one of two Target-employed security officers who struggled with... [Read More]
Locations: Florida, Hillsborough County, Tampa
Criminal Charges: FeloniesThe U.S. government unsealed a 39-count indictment last week, charging two Tampa men in a tax fraud scheme that allegedly netted them millions of dollars. Authorities arrested Marterrence Holloway and Maurice Larry and charged the two with conspiracy to defraud... [Read More]
A federal jury sitting in Tampa this month found Galal Ramadan guilty of one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and fourteen counts of mail fraud. Ramadan, who lives in Tampa, faces a maximum penalty of twenty years in... [Read More]
Locations: Florida, Hillsborough County, Tampa
Criminal Charges: White Collar CrimesA Florida Highway Patrol trooper from Tampa was arrested this week and charged with three counts of withholding information from a practitioner. He is accused of “doctor shopping” to obtain prescription painkillers. According to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement... [Read More]
A Hillsborough County man was sentenced to 25 years in prison for DUI manslaughter, violation of probation and driving while revoked, habitual offender. Charles Peoples likely faced a relatively long sentence for the charges but that likelihood was probably increased... [Read More]
Tampa Bay Buccaneer Eric Wright was arrested earlier this week on suspicion of felony DUI after an injury accident in downtown Los Angeles. Wright signed a five-year, $37 million contract with the Bucs in March. Los Angeles police said officers... [Read More]
Locations: California, Florida, Hillsborough County, Los Angeles, Tampa
Criminal Charges: DUI, FeloniesA Hillsborough judge will decide within the next two weeks whether the state’s case against Jimmy Cruz, accused of shooting a man last year during a Tampa bar brawl, will be dismissed under Florida’s “stand your ground” law. Cruz is... [Read More]
Two Tampa men were arrested this weekend after investigators seized 48 pounds of marijuana in a garage near Carrollwood. According to the arrest affidavits, undercover investigators watched the garage for several months. They served a search warrant Saturday afternoon after... [Read More]
Jervis Wise, attorney with the Law Offices of Bjorn Brunvand, here in Clearwater, obtained a not guilty verdict this week for a Honduran client charged in Tampa’s federal court with possession with intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine while... [Read More]
Nineteen-year-old Miguel Angelo Rivera of Tampa was charged with DUI after being involved in an injury accident on Dale Mabry Highway earlier this week. Five people were hospitalized after a crash that law enforcement claims was caused when Rivera’s car... [Read More]
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]
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