Human trafficking busts net many arrests, but convictions prove to be more challenging
Ten days out from the Super Bowl, Tampa Bay law enforcement agencies are preparing to police the shadows â crime hidden from the glow of the game day lights. Their goal: preventing the expected influx of human trafficking, women and children sold for sex.
and last updated 2021-01-30 10:59:01-05
Ten days out from the Super Bowl, Tampa Bay law enforcement agencies are preparing to police the shadows â crime hidden from the glow of the game day lights. Their goal: preventing the expected influx of human trafficking, women and children sold for sex.
How a 17-year-old woman convinced a serial killer to spare her life
Lisa McVey Noland was abducted by Tampa serial killer Bobby Joe Long in 1984, but she used reverse psychology on him which she believes saved her life
Bobby Joe Long (Image: REUTERS)
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Pinellas commissioners approve body cams for all deputies
The program to outfit 875 deputies with cameras, which Sheriff Bob Gualtieri announced last October, is formally moving forward.
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Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri speaks at a Pinellas County Commission meeting last March. On Tuesday, commissioners approved a plan to outfit Gualtieri s roughly 875 deputies with body-worn cameras. [ DOUGLAS R. CLIFFORD | Times ]
Published Jan. 26
Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieriâs plan for all deputies to be outfitted with body-worn cameras is officially moving forward, as county commissioners on Tuesday approved spending millions to fund the program.
Gualtieri announced his intentions to implement body cameras in October, and a pilot program involving 30 deputies began the same month. Heâd been hesitant about the cameras for years, even as other agencies across the country adopted them, he said, because he felt the technology wasnât up to snuff.
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Florida Couple Locked Handcuffed Boy in Closet for 16 Hours a Day, Police Say
On 1/26/21 at 6:41 AM EST
A Florida couple are facing charges after they told detectives they had been handcuffing a young boy and locking him in a closet for around 16 hours a day as punishment since Christmas, authorities said. John Hernandez, 41, and Natasha Dabbs, 37, were taken into custody on Sunday.
Deputies had been called to a home in Tampa earlier in the day to investigate a report of a missing child, the Hillsborough County Sheriff s Office said in a news release. At the residence, deputies located the boy, who had reportedly been hiding in the home, and cleared the call.