Another circuit judge threw out evidence in a drug possession case, ruling that a narcotics-sniffing dog's nose was not reliable enough to justify searching a vehicle. ...more

November 19, 2008

A former police officer who had been an FBI agent for less than two years was fatally shot Wednesday as he served a warrant at the home of an alleged cocaine dealer. ...more

November 19, 2008

Death penalty cases, by their very nature, are significantly different court proceedings than, say, a drug trafficking case. ...more

November 19, 2008

TAMPA — John "Junior" Gotti wants a judge to force prosecutors to name names. Prosecutors in Gotti's federal racketeering case have asked a judge to allow them to withhold information from the defense about some "co-conspirators or victims of the underlying criminal acts of the Gambino Crime Family Enterprise." ...more

November 18, 2008

John A. "Junior" Gotti's attorneys asked that the case against him be moved to New York, arguing, in part, that Gotti has never set foot in Tampa. ...more

November 7, 2008

TAMPA – Two high-level conspirators in a drug trafficking ring that smuggled cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana from Texas to Florida have been sentenced to federal prison. ...more

November 7, 2008

A plane crash that killed a University of Tampa graduate who is one of the top officials in the war against drug trafficking appears to be an accident, but foreign investigators are in Mexico to rule out an attack by cartels, the transportation secretary said today. ...more

November 5, 2008

A plane crash that killed a University of Tampa graduate who was one of the top officials in the war against drug trafficking appears to be an accident, but foreign investigators are in Mexico to rule out an attack by cartels, the transportation secretary said today. ...more

November 5, 2008

After he was released from prison and pardoned for drug trafficking last year, Richard Paey looked forward to many freedoms. ...more

November 2, 2008

TAMPA – Prosecutors don't want to tell John "Junior" Gotti about all the people who have turned on him. ...more

October 31, 2008