CRIME & SAFETY

The City of Lakeland is aware of an allegation, against an employee’s spouse, that has been made on social media. The alleged incident is reported to have occurred outside of the Lakeland Police Department’s jurisdiction. Law enforcement is aware and, at this point, we are monitoring the situation.

A pair of brothers were arrested by deputies from the Polk County Sheriff’s Office last Saturday evening, May 20th, after the pair became violent at the Brewlands Bar & Billiards at 5733 South Florida Avenue in Lakeland. A 911 call alerted the deputies to the belligerent brothers at around...

LAKELAND — Lakeland police are searching for a shooter who wounded a 27-year-old man in Lakeland Town Center's parking lot early Thursday morning. Officers were patrolling the area of Lakeland Town Center, 917 E. Memorial Blvd., early Thursday morning as a local business was closing after a concert. A large crowd had gathered outside the business in the shopping plaza.

LAKELAND, Fla. (WFLA) — A Lakeland robbery suspect was recaptured three hours after he escaped police custody while being treated at a local hospital. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office said Timothy Tallmadge, 33, was a “person of interest” in a robbery investigation and had an active warrant for a petit theft charge in Polk County […]

LAKELAND, Fla. - Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd says law enforcement is not going to accept children committing criminal acts in the community. Last Thursday, the sheriff’s office arrested a 15-year-old after he was accused of attempting to rob a McDonald’s employee at gunpoint. The week before, investigators...

A couple is accused of letting their comatose 3-year-old boy rot in his bed after authorities discovered his lifeless, ulcerous body with gaping wounds, no rectum, and a hole with intestines, spinal column and colon visible, in the worst case a Florida sheriff said he's ever seen. The post ‘They let this baby rot’: Couple arrested in ‘horror’ death of 3-year-old neglected so badly you could see his intestines, sheriff says first appeared on Law & Crime.

A man with a criminal history, who Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd called a “true menace to society,” escaped from law enforcement custody at Lakeland Regional Health Medical Center for three hours Friday morning before being recaptured. A Polk County Sheriff’s Office helicopter circled neighborhoods surrounding the hospital...

LAKELAND, Fla. - One person was taken to the hospital early Thursday morning after police say they were struck by a bullet in a Lakeland parking lot. According to the Lakeland Police Department, shots were fired around 2:30 a.m. in the 900 block of East Memorial Boulevard where a crowd had gathered.

A woman has pleaded guilty to killing her 3-year-old daughter and dumping her burned remains on a softball field.

The Polk County Sheriff's Office is investigating two crashes that left two children "seriously injured" Wednesday afternoon.

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — An 8-year-old was hospitalized after being hit by a truck towing a camper in Pasco County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Troopers said at about 10:18 a.m., an 8-year-old girl from Dade City tried to run across US-301 when she was hit by a truck that was towing a camper. […]

A Bartow couple have been charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child in the death of a 3-year-old boy. Polk County Sheriff’s Office homicide detectives arrested Takesha Williams, 24, and Efrem Allen Jr., 25, on May 13, charging each with one count of negligent child abuse causing great harm, a second-degree felony, the PCSO said in a news release.

Timothy Palmer, 40, of Mena was arrested on a failure to appear warrant. Deputies were dispatched to a residence on Wild Rose Lane near Acorn in reference to a theft. Deputies were dispatched to a residence on Hwy 71 S near Grannis in reference to a verbal dispute. Ebay McCain,...

One man was taken into custody following an hours-long standoff that began in Plant City late Tuesday evening.

LAKELAND, Fla. — An 84-year-old man is dead after he crashed into a stop sign and tree Sunday afternoon in Lakeland, authorities say. At around 8:35 p.m., officers arrived near the area of County Line Road and Swindell Road after receiving a report of a single-car traffic crash, the Lakeland Police Department said in a news release.

POLK COUNTY, Fla – An Orlando woman who caused serious bodily harm to two children...

LAKELAND, Fla. – Four suspects have been arrested and one is dead after a drive-by shooting in Lakeland that injured 11 people, two of which are still in the hospital. But there are two people deputies and officers still need to interview, and they asked for the public’s help to find them.

Gunshots rang out overnight in the parking lot of the Lakeland Town Center shopping center at 921-995 E. Memorial Blvd. Lakeland Police spokeswoman Robin Tillett said the shooting happened around 2:20 a.m. Officers were already monitoring the area because “a local business was closing after a concert had ended and a large crowd had developed outside,” she said.

The suspect is charged with 35 felonies, officials say.