Pasco County, Florida criminal law news and events
Christopher Gamel, a social studies teacher at James W. Mitchell High School in New Port Richey, was arrested and charged with multiple counts of DUI property damage and personal injury after the car he was driving collided with a patrol... [Read More]
Locations: Florida, New Port Richey, Pasco County
Criminal Charges: DUICrystal Dawn Rusaw of New Port Richey was arrested and charged earlier this week with child neglect and leaving the scene of a crash with injuries. According to the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office, Rusaw was driving a Ford Explorer when... [Read More]
Locations: Florida, New Port Richey, Pasco County
Criminal Charges: DUISeventeen-year-old Land O’Lakes High School student Dustin Sean White was shot and killed in a parking lot at a party in 2009. His acquaintance who fired the gun pleaded guilty to manslaughter as part of a plea agreement last week... [Read More]
Authorities in Pasco County charged Chekayla Dampier with second-degree murder. They accuse Dampier of murdering her 7-week old son last April by holding him under a spout of blistering 142-degree water as a punishment for crying. At the time of... [Read More]
Last month, we wrote here about a Dade City man accused of stabbing a social worker to death in his apartment and pondered whether there would be a challenge to his mental competency. Our suppositions have turned out to be... [Read More]
Earlier this month, social worker Stephanie Ross died after allegedly being slashed multiple times with a large butcher knife by Dade City resident Lucious Smith. Ross was visiting with Smith to help him manage his Medicaid benefits. She had visited... [Read More]
Federal prosecutors in St. Louis, Missouri have charged a Pasco County woman in a scheme they allege involved tax fraud and identity theft. Authorities claim 27-year-old Tania Nichole Henderson of Wesley Chapel was the ringleader of a theft ring that... [Read More]
Locations: Florida, Pasco County, Wesley Chapel
An early morning Port Richey traffic stop last Tuesday ended with the arrest of three people, two charges of battery on deputies and one DUI charge. Pasco County deputies stopped David Schumaker near Cochise Lane and Sandalwood Drive at about... [Read More]
Albert Friedman, an 81-year-old Hudson man, was arrested last week in connection with an August 5th crash in Pasco County. Two people were killed in the crash, which occured on US Highway 19. Friedman has been charged with two counts... [Read More]
A Pasco County judge sentenced 22-year-old Joshua Fieger to eight years in prison for the DUI manslaughter of a 19-year-old in Hudson in December 2009. Fieger faced up to 15 years in prison. According to media reports, the judge was... [Read More]
Not long after Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri announced a crackdown on synthetic marijuana in that county, federal agents and Pasco County deputies raided a synthetic marijuana laboratory in neighboring Pasco County. Pasco Sheriff Chris Nocco alleges the laboratory was... [Read More]
As reported in the Tampa Bay Times, Justin Ash of Zepherhills pleaded guilty last week in Pasco County to second-degree murder with a firearm, avoiding life in prison. The plea was part of an agreement negotiated by Ash’s defense attorney... [Read More]
Michael Andrew Del-Freo of Hudson, Florida was charged with driving under the influence after a hit-and-run crash with a motorcycle earlier this week. The crash left two people critically injured according to the Florida Highway Patrol. According to the highway... [Read More]
Locations: Florida, Hudson, Pasco County
Criminal Charges: DUIFour people were arrested in New Port Richey this week and charged with first-degree murder, two weeks after the November 10th beating death of Samuel Martinez Pratts in a vacant house. Adam Ekdahl, Courtney Ann Keeven, Zoraina Castillo and Staci... [Read More]
Pasco County Sheriff’s deputies arrested 18-year-old William James Osborn of New Port Richey for DUI after a Thanksgiving morning crash in Gulf Harbors. Officers say Osborn was street racing while intoxicated. They allege he was racing another car on Floramar... [Read More]
Locations: Florida, Gulf Harbors, Pasco County
Criminal Charges: DUI
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