Crime and Public Safety

A customer at a St. Petersburg Taco Bell got a lot more than he ordered when an employee allegedly pulled a gun on him.

One person sustained non-life-threatening injuries after shots were fired at a car they were riding in early Saturday morning, according to the Pinellas Park Police Department. 

The Tampa Police Department is investigating a shooting that left a 27-year-old man dead and hospitalized two others early Saturday morning. 

A popular Cosplay model convicted of second-degree murder for the death of her boyfriend will be donning an orange jumpsuit instead of fantasy costumes for the next 20 years.

When the suspect began punching the FHP trooper on the side of the highway in Tampa Friday morning, several drivers immediately pulled to the side of the road and ran to help the trooper subdue the man and arrest him.

A South Florida bus driver is being called a hero for barreling into the parking lot of Fort Lauderdale police headquarters after a gunman opened fire on the bus, killing two passengers. When the driver realized the bus was pinned in, she frantically jumped over the median, at one point driving into oncoming traffic in order to get to the police station quickly -- a move the police chief said saved lives.

A Florida bridge tender has been arrested for manslaughter, one month after a 79-year-old grandmother fell to her death from a drawbridge that began rising while she was still walking on it. Police said surveillance video and deleted text messages between the bridge tender and her supervisor showed she lied to investigators.

Fraudsters are taking advantage of the high prices and low inventory in the housing market, preying on people desperate for a place to live.

Two people have died and two more have been hospitalized after someone opened fire on a Broward County Public Transit Bus in Fort Lauderdale, according to public officials and reporting from WSVN News7.

A convicted sexual predator, who forced his teenage victim to answer his questions in court, has been sentenced to 35 years in prison. 

Law enforcement agencies in Florida and Georgia helped arrest a man suspected of murdering an elderly Polk County resident, burying him in a shallow grave, and then fleeing to Georgia in the victim's vehicle.

A Central Florida man known as The Monkey Whisperer pleaded guilty after federal officials say he illegally sold a capuchin monkey "to a celebrity client in California," who PETA identified as entertainer Chris Brown.

Polk County detectives say dozens were arrested during an operation focused on human trafficking, prostitution, and child predators.