CLARIFICATION The Pasco County Sheriff's Office's per-capita staffing is about half the rate of comparably sized counties in the state, according to sheriff's office spokesman Kevin Doll. A story in Wednesday's Pasco Tribune referenced a standard the sheriff's office typically does not use but that Sheriff Bob White mentioned in a Tuesday presentation to county commissioners. ...more

April 9, 2009

Pasco deputies will conduct Operation Speed Stop on Thursday. Aggressive drivers and speeders along S.R. 54 will be in their crosshairs. The enforcement crackdown will start at 5:30 a.m. April 2, the Sheriff's Office announced. ...more

April 1, 2009

The Pasco County Sheriff's Office today released a photo of a man sought for allegedly striking his estranged wife with a pistol and pushing her out of a moving vehicle. ...more

March 31, 2009

The moon was a dusky orange crescent low in the eastern sky as Larry Cosner drove past the guard house at Saddlebrook Resort shortly after 5 a.m. on a Saturday. ...more

March 29, 2009

A West Pasco resident and former inmate is asking a judge to block proposed changes to mail policy at Pasco County jails. Daniel Callaghan today filed in Pasco-Pinellas Circuit Court an emergency motion seeking a temporary injunction against the "Pasco County Sheriff" until a court hearing can be scheduled. ...more

March 20, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - A new policy intended to enhance security and reduce costs will restrict what mail is delivered to Pasco County jail inmates, the sheriff's office has announced. ...more

March 15, 2009

The family of a woman left brain-damaged after a 2005 wreck with a Pasco County sheriff's deputy's cruiser was awarded a $9.1 million verdict Friday. ...more

March 14, 2009

The family of a woman left brain-damaged after a 2005 wreck with a Pasco County sheriff's deputy's cruiser was awarded a $9.1 million verdict today. ...more

March 13, 2009

A pre-dawn shooting in a field outside Zephyrhills left one man wounded and another under arrest for attempted murder, and created a puzzle for authorities, who say Thursday's victim is a suspect in a strangely similar incident that occurred Monday. ...more

March 6, 2009

A predawn shooting in a field outside Zephyrhills left one man wounded, another under arrest for attempted murder and a puzzle for authorities, who say the victim is a suspect in a strangely similar incident that occurred Monday. ...more

March 5, 2009