Lakeland FL

Tampa, FL – A Tampa man is back behind bars after allegedly robbing a Truist Bank and then being turned in by his own mother just hours later. According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO), 33-year-old Aaron Spencer entered the Truist Bank on Memorial Highway around 1:10 p.m. on The post Tampa Man...

At sixteen years old, Leo Schofield felt like an outcast. He’d grown up in the housing projects of Fall River, Massachusetts, and he had the working-class New England accent to prove it. But as he reached his formative teenage years, his parents made the move south to Lakeland, Florida, dragging Leo down there with...

TAMPA, Florida (WFTS) — Growing up in Venezuela, Tony Selvaggio witnessed firsthand how many families lived without computers, and soon realized the issue existed right here in his new home of Tampa Bay. “Most people don’t know that there is a problem, most people don’t know that 80 percent...

A 51-year-old man was arrested in Polk County after allegedly attempting to smuggle a thermos into the county jail by concealing it internally.

BROOKSVILLE, Fla. — A Plant City man has been sentenced to five years in the Florida Department of Corrections after being arrested during an undercover operation targeting individuals seeking to engage in sexual activity with minors, according to the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO). Juan Carlos Romero, 20,...

Sausage House Market will open soon at 4204 S. Florida Ave., Suite H, in Lakeland. Owners, Piotr and Dariusz Kotarowski, are carefully curating high-quality products for their shop, but they said there is an even more important ingredient: “It’s also tradition. We are Polish.” The brothers were born and raised in...

A trip to the movies turned into a scene out of a police procedural on October 7th, when a 68-year-old man was arrested after allegedly attempting to get free refills at a local theater. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) is calling “cut” on what management says was a repeat performance of retail theft.

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A deputy with the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office has been arrested and charged with battery, the department said on Friday. Samantha Baiocco, 31, was in an altercation with her roommate on Oct. 8 when the argument turned physical and she shoved the victim, HCSO said. Baiocco caused the...

WINTER HAVEN, Fla. – A Tuesday evening attempt to purchase rolling papers turned into an aggravated encounter and failed burglary attempt after a store clerk at Twin Brothers Food Mart defended herself with a firearm. The incident occurred on Tuesday, October 7, 2025, at the Twin Brothers Food Mart...

A Lakeland woman and a Davenport man were arrested on drug charges when officers saw smoking devices get thrown from their car window. Officers observed a white Honda passenger car, occupied by 47-year-old Fidjia Rose Concepcion-Medina and 59-year-old Juvenil Rodrigues-Cardoso, headed north on County Road 468 around...