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A Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority driver was taken to an area hospital by ambulance after he was attacked by a man he didn’t know while getting onto his parked trolley at the end of his break shortly after 5 p.m. Tuesday, the St. Petersburg Police Department said Thursday. The driver, who was not named, suffered injuries that were not thought to be life-threatening, the agency said.
Evidence collected in the investigation led to the arrest of a 46-year-old Clearwater man, according to the St. Petersburg Police Department.
Chelsea Hernandez, 20, ran a red light at Interstate 4 and Columbus Drive on Wednesday, resulting in a crash with a dump truck, police said.
Sonny A. Gonzalez Jr., 42, has also been linked to a similar incident where he exposed himself to another woman at a different hotel, Tampa police said.
The teen is accused of shooting his mother and her boyfriend in the Summerfield neighborhood Saturday. The woman died, and the man was hospitalized.

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  1. A Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority driver was taken to an area hospital by ambulance after he was attacked by a man he didn’t know while getting onto his parked trolley at the end of his break shortly after 5 p.m. Tuesday, the St. Petersburg Police Department said Thursday. The driver, who was not named, suffered injuries that were not thought to be life-threatening, the agency said.
  2. The Tampa Police Department arrested Chelsea Hernandez, 20, on charges of DUI manslaughter charge and driving with a suspended license after she ran a red light in Tampa early Wednesday, causing a crash with a dump truck that killed one of her passengers, police said.
  3. Footage from a body-worn camera shows a Tampa officer taunting and cursing at residents.
  4. Florida Highway Patrol on Aug. 21, 2023, initiated a traffic stop that resulted in the arrest of Raquel López Aguilar, a Mexican national, on charges of transporting immigrants into Florida who are in the country illegally.
  5. Sonny Albert Gonzalez, 42, was arrested and booked into a Hillsborough County jail on Tuesday on multiple charges including armed sexual battery, armed false imprisonment and impersonating a law enforcement officer, according to Tampa police.
  6. This was the office of the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence in Tallahassee on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020.
  7. The entrance to Florida State Prison in Starke is shown Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023. All Florida prisons are now subject to artificial surveillance of phone calls.
  8. Sept. 19• Breaking News
    A man was found dead inside a home that caught fire in Tampa's Old Seminole Heights neighborhood late Monday, police said.
  9. Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office deputies stand at the scene of a fatal shooting in Riverview on Saturday. A 14-year-old boy fatally shot his mother and critically wounded his mother's boyfriend, deputies said.
  10. Nahshon Shannon, right, sits at the defense table in a Tampa courtroom on Monday during the first day of his trial. In an opening argument, Assistant State Attorney Jessica O'Connor outlined the evidence that she said will convince the 12-member jury that Shannon killed his daughter Janessa in 2017 and left her body in the Triple Creek Nature Preserve in Riverview. Pictured in the foreground is one of Shannon's defense attorneys, Bjorn Brunvand.
  11. The St. Petersburg Police Department arrested a 16-year-old boy who shot and critically injured a 15-year-old boy early Sunday.
  12. Sara Elizabeth Murphy, 36, was arrested for DUI manslaughter and driving while license suspended involving a death in a Saturday crash along an Interstate 275 off ramp, just outside of St. Petersburg.
  13. Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies stand at the scene of a fatal shooting in Riverview on Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023. A 14-year-old boy fatally shot his mother and critically wounded his mother's boyfriend, deputies said.
  14. A hit-and-run Friday evening in Plant City left a cyclist dead and Plant City police searching for the driver who hit him, they said.
  15. A defiant Miami City Commissioner Alex Diaz De La Portilla speaks to reporters after bonding out of jail Thursday night. He was suspended around 6 p.m. Friday by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
  16. Hillsborough County Circuit Judge Nancy Jacobs is facing wrongful conduct charges from the state's Judicial Qualifications Commission.
  17. Stephen Kruspe is escorted out of the courtroom in the Palm Beach County Courthouse after his sentencing in August. After killing his wife in 2017, he had waited in jail for more than six years to find out his fate. [Greg Lovett/The Palm Beach Post]
  18. A Cape Canaveral man who authorities say is part of an extremist group has been arrested after they say he and others dressed in black and camouflage displayed the banner with swastikas and a “white power” flag over an overpass that crossed Interstate 4 in Orlando in June.
  19. This image provided by the Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department shows Alex Diaz de la Portilla. Officials say the city of Miami commissioner accused of bribery and money laundering has been arrested on multiple corruption charges. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement says Diaz de la Portilla and a co-defendant, Miami attorney William Riley Jr., were both booked Thursday into a Miami-Dade county jail.
  20. Gary Gauthier was booked into the Pinellas County jail this week after a warrant was issued for his arrest in May.
  21. Law enforcement officers ride by a roadblock as the search for escaped convict Danelo Cavalcante continues in Pottstown, Pa., on Tuesday.
  22. In a screenshot from a Facebook live video, Hillsborough Sheriff Chad Chronister speaks at a news conference Tuesday to announce that he has assigned two K-9 deputies and their partners to the county's jail facilities to reduce the amount of drugs being smuggled inside. At left are Deputy Alyssa Doheny and her K-9 partner Watson, and at right are Master Deputy Clinton Leapley with K-9 partner Holmes.
  23. A stretch of the westbound lanes of the Selmon Expressway near the 50th Street exit in Tampa is seen in a Google image from 2023. Nevaeh Goldsborough, 21, lost control of her Hyundai Sonata and crashed into a guardrail while driving in this area of the expressway on March 5. Her 11-month-old son was among the passengers who were thrown from the car during the crash, and the boy died later at Tampa General Hospital. Goldsborough was arrested on Sept. 4 on charges of aggravated manslaughter of a child and two counts of child neglect. Two other children in the car were also injured in the crash.
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