Detectives arrested two men on Sunday wanted for weeks for questioning in the case.
Category: Crime / Justice
Posted inActivism
Protestors Demand Arrest of LPD Officers Who Punched, Tased 16-Year-Old
Organizers also called for Lakeland Police Chief Sam Taylor to resign.
Posted inCrime / Justice
Lakeland Man Charged With Murder of Spouse
Police say Gavin Miranda, 27, shot his husband at the apartment complex near Lakeside Village.
Posted inCrime / Justice
Alleged Getaway Driver in 3-Year-Old’s Murder is Arrested
Plant City Police arrested Demarius Wilson, 22, who has been on the run since the March 11 shootout at the Cambridge Cove apartments.
Posted inCrime / Justice, Public Safety
‘Service and Sacrifice:’ Polk County Law Enforcement Officers Pause to Honor Fallen Peers
There are 37 names on the Polk County Law Enforcement Memorial in Veterans Memorial Park.
Posted inCrime / Justice
Man, 26, Who Shot Polk County Deputies Underwent Radical Transformation
Sheriff: Lt. Chad Anderson is alive ‘by the grace of God’ after bullet lodged between heart and spinal column.
Posted inCrime / Justice
Two Polk County Deputies Wounded, Gunman Killed in Shootout at NW Lakeland Park
The dead man was aligned with an extreme anti-government ideology and considered himself a “sovereign citizen.”
Posted inPublic Safety
Sheriff Announces ‘Largest-Ever’ Seizure of Fentanyl, But Potent Drug Has Taken a Heavy Toll on Polk
474 Polk County residents have died of fentanyl overdoses in the last decade.
Posted inCrime / Justice
Third Animal Hoarding Case Since December Strains Polk Shelter
Since October, Animal Control has impounded 7,294 animals — 497 of them came from cruelty investigations.
Posted inCrime / Justice
After 35 Years in Prison, Leo Schofield Will Be Paroled on April 30
A podcast about Schofield’s conviction for murdering his 18-year-old wife in 1987 is set to become a scripted TV series.
