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Category: Crime / Justice

Posted inCrime / Justice

State Leaders Gather in Polk To Discuss Human Trafficking as Exploitation of Migrant Children Surges

by Kimberly C. Moore May 4, 2023May 4, 2023

Technology gives predators more access to children, but it also enables investigators to bring down entire networks of traffickers.

Posted inCrime / Justice

Podcast Fails to Win Leo Schofield’s Release – For Now

by Suzie Schottelkotte May 3, 2023May 11, 2023

Parole board orders convicted murderer to spend 12 months in ‘transition program’ with possible release in June 2024

Posted inCrime / Justice

State Seeks Lakeland Mass-Murder Suspect’s Veteran Medical Records

by Kimberly C. Moore April 13, 2023April 13, 2023

Assistant state attorney will argue that Bryan James Riley was not insane and should face the death penalty for murdering four family members and leaving an 11-year-old girl for dead in 2021.

Posted inCrime / Justice

Woman Charged With Embezzling $900K From Lakeland Plumbing Firm

by Kimberly C. Moore April 13, 2023April 13, 2023

Helen Marie Haffner, who worked as a secretary for Pro Plumbing for 16 years, told police she’s had a decades-long online gambling addiction.

Posted inCrime / Justice

Head of Special-Needs Daycare Centers Charged With $400K Medicaid Fraud

by Kimberly C. Moore and Cindy Glover March 22, 2023March 24, 2023

Lakeland parents scramble to find care after abrupt closure of four facilities for medically fragile children.

James Dunn
Posted inCrime / Justice

Consultant Faces 7 Misdemeanor Charges for ‘Ugly’ School Board Campaign Texts

by Kimberly C. Moore March 11, 2023March 11, 2023

James Dunn is charged with violating Florida election laws regarding disclosing the funding of campaign messages.

Posted inCrime / Justice

Gang Member, 19, Charged with Murder in a December Shooting

by Kimberly C. Moore March 2, 2023March 3, 2023

‘I hit his back,’ the teen rapped in a video he posted to social media about the East Lakeland incident.

Posted inCrime / Justice

Student, 17, Arrested After Loaded Gun Found in Her Purse at LHS

by Kimberly C. Moore February 23, 2023February 23, 2023

She was charged with two felonies. Police said the weapon was discovered during a random search before school.

Grady Judd and U.S. Attorney Roger B. Handberg
Posted inCrime / Justice

Drive-by Shootings Result in 5 Arrests and a New Gang Task Force

by Kimberly C. Moore February 15, 2023February 18, 2023

All Polk law enforcement agencies are participating in the gang task force, along with state and federal agencies.

Posted inCrime / Justice

Search of Truck Driven by Shooting Suspect Reveals Guns and Drugs

by Kimberly C. Moore February 8, 2023February 8, 2023

Lakeland police wanted to question Alex Michael Greene, 21, about his role in shootings that wounded 11 men.

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