A Tampa man, Muhammad Al-Azhari, is being indicted for assisting Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and violating the U.S. firearm laws. Al-Azhari, 23, charged with attempting to provide material support or resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization, Islamic State, and violating the National Firearms Act, a ccordingContinue Reading
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office is looking for more suspects involved in the shootout at a Brandon apartment complex, naming Luis Monge as the first person arrested. Monge, 21, was identified by a witness seeing him fire a gun at the complex during the shooting on June 10, around 2:50Continue Reading
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office have arrested and charged Terry Knott with grand theft, burglary, and inciting a riot in connection to the attack on Shalimar Jewelers during a George Floyd riot. Knott, 41, was identified when someone recognized his photo from the sheriff’s initial social media post. The burglary happenedContinue Reading
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office says a “peeping tom,” Anthony Garcia, was arrested for breaking into a woman’s home while she showered to open her bedroom curtains, and authorities are seeking if there are additional victims. Garcia, 31, forced his way inside the victim’s residence at the Retreat at CrosstownContinue Reading
The Hendry County Sheriff’s Office had identified the man charged with murdering Florida Fish and Wildlife officer Julian Keen Jr. as Eliceo Hernandez. Hernandez, 20, was arrested and charged with negligent homicide and held in the county jail on $500,000 bond The sheriff’s office detailed that Keen, 30, who wasContinue Reading
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said people armed with hammers and other blunt objects smashed their way into the Tampa Walmart on East Fletcher Avenue after 9 p.m. May 30 during a George Floyd protest. Detectives believe approximately 200 people entered the store and said most began looting the electronicsContinue Reading
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office arrested the Steinbrenner High School band director, Jason Phillip Allgair, for engaging in sex acts with the students both on and off-campus between October 2017 and May 2018. Allgair, 35, was arrested after officers interviewed the female student, who provided evidence of a relationship withContinue Reading
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office is seeking information about several people who burglarized a jewelry store in Tampa during the George Floyd protests on May 31. The burglary happened at International Diamond Center at 10330 N. Dale Mabry Highway, in Tampa, around 2:30 a.m., officials said. Surveillance video (as seenContinue Reading
The Tampa City Council approved $952,000 to purchase more than 600 body cameras for the Tampa Police Department on Thursday, a move Police Chief Brian Dugan says many members of his force may not like, but if they don’t like it, “then I suggest that you turn your badge in.”Continue Reading
During the Hillsborough County Emergency Policy Group meeting Thursday afternoon, Hillsborough Commissioner Sandy Murman discussed the recent in coronavirus cases as testing has risen during recent weeks. Murman warned that the George Floyd rallies and protests could further the spike, stating they “are like incubators for the virus.’’ “I’m pretty concerned,’’Continue Reading
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office arrested a former school bus driver named Hector Cabrera after he planned to meet with a young girl. Cabrera, 32, attempted to have sex with a detective posing as a 14-year-old girl, exchanging messages and agreed to meet at 1:00 p.m. yesterday afternoon. When CabreraContinue Reading
On Monday, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office arrested Dr. Rodney Howard-Browne, pastor of The River at Tampa Bay Church for intentionally and repeatedly hosted church services with hundreds of members in attendance, despite knowing he was in violation of orders set in place by the President, the Governor of Florida,Continue Reading
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office is investigating reports of scammers posing as deputies. In this scam, the caller claims victims have missed a recent court appearance and attempts to extort money out of them. The scammer’s phone number may even appear as the HCSO non-emergency line, 813-247-8200, or appear toContinue Reading
Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said in an effort to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in Hillsborough County Jails, 164 non-violent inmates in the Orient Road Jail and the Falkenburg Road Jail are being released from custody. “As your Sheriff, there is nothing I take more seriously than publicContinue Reading
