âI owe you a new broomâ: Hillsborough County deputy gives gator âjoyrideâ back to pond on broomstick
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Gator hitches a ride back to pond on broomstick
A Hillsborough County deputy recently gave an alligator seen snoozing under a car, a joyride to the water on a broomstick.
TAMPA, Fla. - A Hillsborough County deputy has a new nickname after relocating two gators in one month back to the water.
According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page, Deputy Wheaton is now being affectionately called ‘Crocodile Dun-Wheatee’ after helping a 10-foot gator back to the water at the beginning of April and then giving a four-foot gator a ride back to a pond at the end of the month.
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Wrong-way driver on Florida interstate causes 3 crashes before being pulled over, troopers say
Updated May 02, 2021;
TAMPA, Fla. A wrong-way driver caused three crashes along a three-mile stretch of Interstate 4 before he was stopped by deputies early Sunday, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
Deputies believe Terrence Murphy, 28, of Tampa, was intoxicated when he got behind the wheel of a 2011 Dodge Journey and began driving east in the westbound lanes of I-4.
Investigators are still trying to determine where Murphy entered the highway and when he started driving the wrong way.
The first of the crashes came at 6:20 p.m. when a driver was forced to swerve into a barrier wall to avoid hitting Murphy head-on near the 50th Street interchange, the Highway Patrol said. Murphy kept driving and forced a second motorist to steer out of his path and into another westbound vehicle near the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard interchange, the Highway Patrol said.
Alligator napping under parked car takes broom joy ride back to pond
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May 3 (UPI) An alligator found sleeping under a Florida resident s parked car was escorted back to a pond by a sheriff s deputy wielding a broom.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff s Office said three deputies were summoned to a Tampa neighborhood on a report of an alligator sleeping underneath a parked car.
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One of the responders, Deputy Wheaton, had relocated a 10-foot alligator in April, so she took point on the operation to get the gator back where it belonged.
Wheaton used a broom to try to guide the reptile in the right direction, and the alligator ended up latching its jaws onto the broom, allowing the deputy to give it a joy-ride back to the water.
Citations replacing arrests for more juvenile offenders in Hillsborough
The program is now mandatory for first-time misdemeanors, except in âextraordinaryâ circumstances, the sheriff announced.
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Teenagers attend a group session at the Hillsborough County Juvenile Detention Center East. The Hillsborough County Sheriff s Office announced Monday that the county is expanding its juvenile civil citation program, making the citations mandatory for all first-time misdemeanors except in extraordinary circumstances. [ Times ]
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TAMPA â Hillsborough County is again expanding its civil citation program for juveniles, a move designed to keep more of them off the path toward incarceration.
The civil citations, given to first-time juvenile offenders in lieu of an arrest, will now be mandatory for all misdemeanors except in âextraordinaryâ circumstances, according to a Hillsborough County Sheriffâs Office news release Monday.