A.G. GancarskiAugust 28, 2024
3min0
'I think we’ve grown used to these childish responses to legitimate criticism by Gov. DeSantis.'
Tag: Polk County Sheriff’s OfficeA nice warm evening in Tallahassee on a very busy street while taking this shot.
A.G. GancarskiAugust 28, 2024
Jacob OglesApril 19, 2024
4min0
Charles Lake told authorities he has viewed such content regularly since at least 2008.
Associated PressOctober 4, 2022
2min0
The deputy was serving a warrant for a drug felony charge.
Kelly HayesJanuary 26, 2021
3min598
The paramedic told detectives he was directed to do so by his supervisor.
Jacob OglesJanuary 6, 2019
7min892
Former Agriculture Commissioner candidate Baxter Troutman faces new accusations by wife Rebecca of aggravated assault and domestic battery. Arrest records with the Polk County Sheriff’s Office detail a tumultuous and sometimes violent home life for the Troutmans over ten years of marriage, despite the couple during the course of his campaign insisting their home life […]
Drew WilsonMarch 8, 2017
2min334
The Florida Highway Patrol came out against a proposed committee bill Wednesday that would hand over agency funding and jurisdiction in two counties. CRJ 17-01 from the House Criminal Justice Subcommittee could give the Pinellas County and Polk County sheriff’s offices a combined $6 million to handle crashes on state roads within county borders. FHP Lt. Col. […]
Les NeuhausFebruary 21, 2017
5min423
A recently-fired employee of the Florida Department of Children and Families, who had worked as a child protection investigator since 2015, was taken into custody by sheriff’s deputies on drug trafficking charges after a warrant was issued for her arrest, a spokesperson with the agency said Tuesday. According to the Lakeland Ledger, Laymeshia Hicks, 25, […]
Florence SnyderOctober 29, 2016
3min357
Everyone enters “the helping professions” with high ideals. Forty years later, some emerge as cynics who think it’s OK to “help” themselves if no one’s looking. Not Tim Glover. After decades in Polk County law enforcement, he has his ideals, and a well-earned front page shoutout from the Lakeland Ledger headlined “Officer writes red light […]