FHP: 15 phony credit cards, weed found in car
By Meryl Kornfield | Jan. 5, 2017A Tampa man and woman were found with fraudulent credit cards and copies of driver’s licenses not belonging to them in their car Wednesday, Florida Highway Patrol said.
A Tampa man and woman were found with fraudulent credit cards and copies of driver’s licenses not belonging to them in their car Wednesday, Florida Highway Patrol said.
After a failed gas-station holdup, one man threw a wine bottle at a cashier’s face, Gainesville Police said.
As the Florida Highway Patrol uses billboards and pamphlets to remind drivers to move over for stopped emergency vehicles, Gainesville seems to have received the message.
After threatening an attack, a Santa Fe High School student was arrested Tuesday with three knives and a set of brass knuckles concealed in his backpack, Alachua Police said.
An Alachua man stole $12,000 worth of electronics from a Windsor Park apartment, and then used the apartment to meet and have sex with women, Gainesville Police said.
A married Gainesville couple was arrested Saturday night after a botched $10 drug deal left a man with a stab wound to his chest, Gainesville Police said.
A Gainesville man flipped his car into a ditch when he was driving home drunk from a friend’s house Friday, Gainesville Police said.
During a morning workout in Haile Plantation on Thursday morning, a woman was forced into a wooded area and molested by a homeless man, the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office said.
Two Live Oaks men were arrested Thursday after video surveillance caught them on a robbing spree in November, Gainesville Police said.
An argument about music ended when a Gainesville man grabbed a knife and stabbed his boyfriend in the stomach Thursday, Gainesville Police said.
A former employee of Alliance Credit Union admitted Wednesday to stealing $6,330 from a dead person’s bank account to pay for a new car, Gainesville Police said.
For nearly half a year, a Kmart pharmacist stole about 1,400 prescription pills from the store’s pharmacy, the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office said.
A Gainesville man — wearing a black speedo and red compression shirt — was arrested Wednesday after trying to seduce a woman in her backyard, Gainesville Police said.
After a night out at Midtown on Wednesday, a UF student broke into a house and fell asleep with a broom, Gainesville Police said.
After attempting to buy — and then stealing — a security guard’s dog Monday, an Alachua man stabbed the guard in the neck, Gainesville Police said.
An intoxicated, off-duty Alachua County Sheriff's Office deputy hit a parked car twice, sped down University Avenue and refused field-sobriety tests early Friday morning, Gainesville Police said.
After a routine check by the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office on Monday, seven stores were caught selling alcohol or tobacco to minors.
After a woman resisted his romantic advances, a Gainesville man resorted to blackmail, posting semi-nude photos of the college student online and began threatening to share them with law schools that she considered attending, Gainesville Police said.
Under the influence of drugs, a Georgia man drove the wrong way on Interstate 75 near Gainesville on Friday, the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office said.
On the heels of a burglary spree, a Gainesville teenager was caught Friday driving one of the cars he broke into, Gainesville Police said.