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DNA evidence can play critical role in solving car thefts, law enforcement officials say
TAMPA, Fla. - Cities across the Tampa Bay area are seeing issues with strings of car burglaries and auto thefts. The Tampa Police Department is investigating a string of auto burglaries that happened in New Tampa in the early morning hours of May 17. Officers are looking for three suspects seen on surveillance in the Grand Reserve Apartment complex and the Remington subdivision.
2 held on gun, drug charges
TAMPA — A traffic stop after a driver cut through a parking lot to avoid traffic at an intersection May 18 led to the arrest of two men on drug and weapons charges. Tampa police said just before 10:30 p.m., officers observed a black Infiniti skirting the intersection of North 29th Street and East Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. The officers conducted a traffic stop and after detecting the odor of marijuana, began a narcotics investigation.
Florida charter school says child care provider failed to keep students safe
One of the Tampa Bay area’s largest charter school systems and one of its key service providers have landed in court over the question of who will offer early learning and extended day programs at the group’s nine campuses. Plato Academy has accused Superior Schools, which has run...
Window to the Weekend: 13th Annual Cuban Sandwich Festival
TAMPA (BLOOM) – In our “Window to the Weekend” sponsored by Renewal by Andersen of Tampa, Chef Dominick Perrone of The Cracked Pepper joined Gayle Guyardo, the host of the global health and wellness show, Bloom, to share how to make a great cuban sandwich and talk about the International Cuban Sandwich Festival happening in Historic Ybor City.
Florida family speaks after arrest made in son’s overdose death
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — The man wanted for first-degree murder in Hillsborough County has been arrested in Alabama. Officials say Altwain Carlise fled the state to evade his arrest warrant for his alleged involvement in selling drugs that led to the fatal overdose of 23-year-old Dhane Hogan. “It’s...
Wesley Chapel football assistant arrested at Wildcats’ spring game
For the second time in a year, a Pasco County high school football program is under scrutiny for an incident involving a coach not employed full-time by the school district. On May 17, Hernando County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested Wesley Chapel High volunteer assistant Brian Nelson Mena at Central High in Brooksville on a Hillsborough County warrant charging him with a felony count of an authority figure soliciting or engaging in a romantic relationship with a student.
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