Detective James Howell advises residents to secure their homes and vehicles.
Bloomingdale and FishHawk Ranch were plagued by a string of car burglaries December through February.
Eleazar Escorihuela, 48, was not wearing a helmet, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office reports.
Thomas Francis Kurina of Brandon had his 4-year-old and 7-year-old with him when he was caught in a drug transaction within 1,000 feet of Riverview High School, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.
The boy was in critical condition after falling off the back of his father's pickup truck Wednesday night, ABC Action News reports.
Timmy Dean Hess, David Diaz and Stephen Douglas Dohm were charged with conspiring to traffic cocaine in Pitt County, North Carolina, according to reports.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office on Monday night recognized its most dedicated members of the Citizen Patrol on the fifth anniversary of the first class.
Four Bloomingdale-Riverview area store clerks are among 31 arrested around Hillsborough County in a crackdown as Spring Break 2012 approaches.
Ethel Anderson, a fifth-grade teacher at Mango Elementary School, was secretly recorded by detectives during a conversation, the Tampa Bay Times reports.
Vongkoth Lay Vorasan is alleged to have sexually assaulted an employee twice at the Seffner restaurant. The victim recorded the second attack on her cell phone, Hillsborough County Sheriff's investigators said.
Ethel Anderson, 29, a Mango Elementary School fifth-grade teacher, faces three counts of lewd battery and two counts of lewd and lascivious molestation.
Ethel Anderson, 29, a teacher at Mango Elementary School, is alleged to have had oral sex with the boy, who was not one of her students, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office reports.
Traffic is stopped in both directions on Lithia Pinecrest at George Smith Road in Lithia after a flatbed truck hit a power pole Tuesday morning, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office reports.
Thieves are stealing gas to make a fast buck, which may end up hurting consumers, ABC News reports.
The yellow-and-white, two-door Chevrolet delivery wagon was taken from a resident's St. Cloud Avenue home sometime in the past week.
No one was injured after the car burst into flames at the intersection of U.S. 301 and Everhart Road on Wednesday afternoon, ABC Action News reports.
Angel Velazquez was ejected from his SUV as it overturned while he tried to exit Interstate 4 onto U.S. 192, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
Citations for running red lights at six major Hillsborough County intersections with cameras, including the one at Bloomingdale Avenue and Bell Shoals Road, fell by 7.8 percent last year.
For the fifth straight year, crime is down, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.
The blaze, at 4810 Foxye Lane, directly west of I-75 at U.S. 301, is still burning, officials said.
The 45-year-old man suffered serious injuries when his Harley-Davidson crashed on U.S. 301 Saturday night. His passenger also was hurt.
The 14-year-old boy was apparently "horsing around" when he was hit and suffered leg injuries, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.
Detectives say two Ruskin men are responsible for at least 16 golf cart thefts in southeastern Hillsborough County. A woman is charged with purchasing or trading drugs for at least three of the stolen golf carts.
A Temple Terrace woman is dead following the Jan. 26 crash on Big Bend Road in Gibsonton.
The sheriff's office will set up a checkpoint at State Road 60 and Parsons Avenue tonight.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said 23 golf carts have been stolen in the past month.
Exercises intended to train Community Emergency Response Team members for emergencies were held Jan. 14 at St. Andrew's United Methodist Church.
Joshua Fletcher is charged with two counts of interference of privacy.
Riverview High School student Maya Busby, 15, was last seen at a residence in Brandon on Jan. 15. The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help in finding the reported juvenile runaway.
The defendants reportedly took sexually explicit photos of a child under age 12.
The cause of the fire is unknown.
Kevin Byron Gomez lost control of his car on the wet roadway Wednesday afternoon, the Florida Highway Patrol reports.
A Brandon 14-year-old was one of two teens found with non-life threatening shooting injuries in the parking lot of a Central Tampa Dunkin' Donuts.
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The Riverview woman's front tire blew, causing the car to hit a guard rail and flip over, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.
The fire was extinguished by Hillsborough County firefighters, ABC Action News reports.
This season, the Florida Highway Patrol is warning motorists: “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over.”
She was located in Town ‘N Country.
The mentally disabled 35-year-old was last seen Monday night before walking away from the Valrico group home where she lives.
A Riverview bus driver's aide has been charged with child neglect after the Seffner girl was found on a bus in the parking lot at Valrico Elementary.