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Surveillance footage shows thieves breaking into the Trulieve medical marijuana dispensary on U.S. 19, according to Clearwater police. The break in happened less than an hour after a similar burglary at a store on Clearwater Beach. [Clearwater Police]
Marijuana burglars hit Florida dispensary at 4:20 a.m., police say
A trio of thieves hit Trulieve locations in Clearwater Beach and Clearwater in a joint operation, police said.
Yesterday• Breaking News
Clearwater driver, 22, arrested after running from deadly U.S. 19 crash, troopers say
Tanner Donald Hackman, 22, of Clearwater, faces charges of vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of a crash involving death, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. This photo was taken after a 2018 arrest. [Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office]
He ran a red light and rear-ended a car on U.S. 19, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Three people in the other vehicle died.
Yesterday• Breaking News
Will someone else confess in death row inmate James Dailey’s case?
Death row inmate James Dailey, left, awaits execution for the 1985 murder of 14-year-old Shelly Boggio in Pinellas County. His co-defendant, Jack Pearcy, now says he alone killed the girl. A judge wants to hear his testimony at a March 5 hearing. [Florida Department of Corrections]
James Dailey has spent three decades on death row for the 1985 murder of a 14-year-old girl. His defense says another man did it. A judge will hear that witness on March 5.
Yesterday• Crime
Staffer accused of body-slamming AMIkids student arrested; state shuts school down
School employees Jarvis Delon West, left, and Dontae Antonio Thomas, right, were both arrested in connection with the assault and injury of a 12-year-old boy who attended AMIkids in Pinellas Park. The state shut the school down. [MARTHA ASENCIO RHINE | Times]
Dontae Antonio Thomas, 34, turned himself in on a charge of aggravated child abuse. He is the second AMIkids school staffer to face charges in the assault of a 12-year-old boy.
Yesterday• Education

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    2 hours ago• Florida Politics
    A Shoot Straight employee conducts background checks and others finish sales at the Florida Gun Show in Tampa. [ZACHARY T. SAMPSON | Times]
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    Yesterday• Florida
    Folding of the American flag for slain Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Joseph Bullock at Sarasota National Cemetery on Thursday. Trooper Bullock was shot and killed in the line of duty last week when he stopped to help a motorist. [THOMAS BENDER | Thomas Bender/Sarasota Herald-Tribune via AP]
  3. Marijuana burglars hit Florida dispensary at 4:20 a.m., police say
    Yesterday• Breaking News
    Surveillance footage shows thieves breaking into the Trulieve medical marijuana dispensary on U.S. 19, according to Clearwater police. The break in happened less than an hour after a similar burglary at a store on Clearwater Beach. [Clearwater Police]
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  5. Clearwater driver, 22, arrested after running from deadly U.S. 19 crash, troopers say
    Yesterday• Breaking News
    Tanner Donald Hackman, 22, of Clearwater, faces charges of vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of a crash involving death, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. This photo was taken after a 2018 arrest. [Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office]
  6. Pinellas deputies and police to look for drunk drivers in wolfpacks this weekend
    Yesterday• Pinellas
    Law enforcement officers, Pinellas sheriff's deputies and troopers from the Florida Highway Patrol, whose patrol car is pictured above, will be in a wolf pack looking for impaired driver this week. (Sgt. Steve Gaskins, Florida Highway Patrol)
  7. FedEx packages with $81,000 lead Hillsborough detectives to scam run from motel room
    Yesterday• Crime
    FedEx packages, shown left, were filled with $81,000 from people out of state who Hillsborough deputies say were scammed by Dontavius Oakley, 35, who is charged with fraud. [Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office]
  8. Ex-Port Richey mayor’s attempted murder trial gets last-minute delay
    Yesterday• Pasco
    Dale Massad appears in court for a motion hearing on his bond status on March 14 the at West Pasco Judicial Center in New Port Richey. Massad is charged with attempted murder after authorities said he shot at a Pasco County Sheriff's Office SWAT team.
  9. Tampa jury deadlock leads to mistrial in ice cream man murder case
    Yesterday• Hillsborough
    Jurors on Friday said they could not reach a unanimous verdict in the case against Michael Keetley, an ice cream man accused of murder. Keetley, right, smirked as the judge instructed the jury to try again to reach a verdict. [SCOTT KEELER | Times]
  10. Will someone else confess in death row inmate James Dailey’s case?
    Yesterday• Crime
    Death row inmate James Dailey, left, awaits execution for the 1985 murder of 14-year-old Shelly Boggio in Pinellas County. His co-defendant, Jack Pearcy, now says he alone killed the girl. A judge wants to hear his testimony at a March 5 hearing. [Florida Department of Corrections]
  11. Pinellas woman hired as caretaker for 97-year-old woman stole from her, deputies say
    Feb. 20• Crime
    Shirley Elizabeth Rayner, 52, of Tarpon Springs, is facing a charge of elderly exploitation. Deputies say she forged or altered checks belonging to a 97-year-old woman she was hired to help. [Pinellas County Sheriff's Office]
  12. Tampa jury ponders murder case after ice cream man waives closing argument
    Feb. 20• Crime
    Michael Keetley is brought into the courtroom during his murder trial Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020 in Tampa. Keetley is the former ice cream truck driver who is accused of shooting a group of men in 2010. [DIRK SHADD | Times]
  13. Florida man arrested for fourth DUI tells cops just how high he is, deputies say
    Feb. 20• Crime
    Jonathan W. Connors, 32, told a deputy he was “high as f---” after he was pulled over in North Redington Beach, arrest reports state. He faces multiple charges, including his fourth DUI. [Pinellas County Sheriff's Office]
  14. Shirtless Florida man had toddler tucked between his legs on motorcycle, police say
    Feb. 20• Crime
    Booking photo of Gerardo Javier Garcia, 27, who is facing charges of child neglect, fleeing police and driving without a license. [Pinellas County Sheriff's Office]
  15. Teen, 17, shot and killed at Wimauma home
    Feb. 20• Hillsborough
    Check tampabay.com for the latest breaking news and updates. [Tampa Bay Times]
  16. Admissions halted at AMIkids Pinellas after staffer slammed boy and failed to report it
    Feb. 19• Education
    Jarvis Delon West was arrested for child neglect after failing to report an employee at AMI Kids who slammed a boy to the ground, according to police [Courtesy of Pinellas County Sheriff's Office]
  17. Hillsborough to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana
    Feb. 19• Crime
    Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister supports decriminalizing small amounts of marijuana. [Times 2019]
  18. ‘He didn’t want to die.’ Plant City rampage victim was Mexican immigrant, beloved patriarch
    Feb. 19• Hillsborough
    Cirila Diaz holds photos of her husband Agustin Pardo on Feb. 6. Pardo was fatally shot in Plant City on Jan. 14 while driving on Colson Road, not far from his home. His family described the retired farmworker as caring and hard-working. [TONY MARRERO | Times]
  19. They held up a Clearwater CVS. A trail of pill bottles led cops to their door, police say
    Feb. 19• Crime
    Roy Lampkin, left, David Dobbins and Christopher Rachell are charged in connection with a caper that resulted in a CVS in Clearwater being held up by robbers. [Pinellas County Sheriff's Office]
  20. Tampa investment firm accused of $170 million Ponzi scheme
    Feb. 19• Business
    Brian Davison is chief executive officer of Equialt, which bought this Safety Harbor home in a tax deed sale. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission contends in a new lawsuit that EquiAlt is a Ponzi scheme, and Davison has diverted investor funds for his own lavish personal spending. Times (2015)
  21. Body-slammed by school staffer, Pinellas boy suffered brain bleed and neglect, police say
    Feb. 18• Education
    Jarvis Delon West was arrested on child neglect charges after he didn't report an employee at AMI Kids who slammed a boy to the ground, according to police. [Courtesy of Pinellas County Sheriff's Office]
  22. Driver in St. Pete hit-and-run that killed motorcyclist arrested in Tennessee, police say
    Feb. 18• Crime
    Check tampabay.com for the latest breaking news and updates. [Times]
  23. Two deaths and a SWAT standoff during ‘wild night’ in Polk, sheriff says
    Feb. 18• Crime
    A "wild night" in Poinciana left two people dead and one shot seven times, but in stable condition. [Polk County Sheriff's Office]
  24. Pensacola sex offender climbs 365-foot radio tower to flee from police
    Feb. 18• Florida
    This YouTube screen shot shows local news coverage in Pensacola as a man fleeing from police climbed a 365-foot tall radio tower on Monday, Feb. 17, 2020. [Youtube]
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