Polk County, Florida criminal law news and events
The body of Joseph M. Coney was discovered earlier this week facedown in a Lake Wales yard at about 4 a.m. Homicide detectives from the Polk County sheriff’s office and Lake Wales police opened a homicide investigation after determining that... [Read More]
Federal prosecutors report that Jessy Paliyath Peter of Lakeland pleaded guilty this month to theft of government funds and making a false statement to obtain federal employee’s compensation. At the root of the case is a fraudulent workers’ compensation application... [Read More]
Dorice “DeeDee” Moore was convicted earlier this week for murdering Abraham Shakespeare in 2009. After the jury returned its verdict, Hillsborough Circuit Judge Emmett Battles sentenced Moore to life in prison for first-degree murder. The state was not seeking the... [Read More]
The trial of Dorice DeeDee Moore, accused of killing a Lakeland lottery winner in 2009, began this week in a Hillsborough Circuit courtroom. Moore is accused of fatally shooting Abraham Shakespeare, who won a $17 million lottery jackpot in 2006... [Read More]
Christopher A. Koenig, a 29-year-old Lakeland man, was arrested earlier this week in Polk County after allegedly hitting a teenaged pedestrian with his car and fleeing the scene, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office. Koenig faces one count leaving... [Read More]
Locations: Florida, Lakeland, Polk County
Criminal Charges: DUIInvestigators in Polk County arrested 30 people following a 10-month investigation into drug trafficking. The arrests were part of “Operation City Sweep,” a multi-agency effort that involved four search warrants and undercover purchases of drugs and weapons. Investigators included members... [Read More]
The murder trial of Tivasha Logan of Lakeland began this week in Polk County Circuit Court. Logan is accused of starving her infant daughter to death in November 2009. Prosecutors allege that Logan did not give her baby, 5-month-old Chauntasia... [Read More]
Locations: Florida, Lakeland, Polk County
Criminal Charges: FeloniesOver 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]
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]
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]
Locations: Florida, Lake Wales, Polk County, Sarasota County, Venice
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]
Last week, a jury in Polk County, Florida recommended that 30-year-old Robert McCloud be executed for the first-degree murders of Tamiqa Taylor and Dustin Freeman. Law enforcement says the deaths occurred during a drug-related home invasion in Poinciana in October... [Read More]
Neha Patel of Lakeland was charged in Polk County this week with first-degree murder related to the death of her 1-year-old son, Ishan. Polk County Sheriff’s Office investigators say that Patel slapped the one-year old on Thursday and then purposefully... [Read More]
Kristian C. Brooks-Marlar of Lakeland has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of Matthew Ross McCraney, also of Lakeland. Polk County sheriff’s detectives allege that Brooks-Marlar and McCraney got into a fight early last Sunday morning. The two... [Read More]
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