November 26, 2010
by
K. McKinney
James Braley of Tampa was sentenced to spend a year on probation last week after being acquitted of DUI manslaughter but found guilty of midemeanor DUI with property damage. Six months of Braley’s probation will be spent on house arrest...
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November 23, 2010
by
K. McKinney
Ronald “Shine” Jiles of Zephyrhills was sentenced to life in prison last week for possessing crack cocaine with intent to distribute. Jiles pleaded guilty in Tampa’s federal court in September. According to court documents, in late 2009 and early 2010...
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Locations: Florida
Criminal Charges:
Drug Crimes,
Felonies
November 22, 2010
by
K. McKinney
Clearwater police charged Vance Waggoner of Indian Rocks Beach was felony driving under the influence and reckless driving with property damage last week after Waggoner crashed his car into a building. Arrest reports indicate that Waggoner was convicted of DUI...
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Locations: Florida
Criminal Charges:
Felonies,
Vehicular Crimes
November 21, 2010
by
K. McKinney
A Fort Lauderdale jury acquitted former major league baseball player Jim Leyritz of DUI manslaughter last week. Leyritz had faced up to 15 years in prison if convicted of manslaughter, charges stemming from a 2007 crash that killed a 30-year-old...
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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
