Deputies shot and killed a suspected drug dealer Friday morning after he fired at SWAT team members, wounding one deputy. ...more

February 21, 2009

Deputies shot and killed a suspected drug dealer Friday morning after he fired at SWAT team members, wounding one deputy. ...more

February 21, 2009

For years there was an annual late-summer rite that occurred all around Florida. The local sheriff, in good economic times or bad, would suggest in a public fashion the bad guys were winning the upper hand and the sheriff's agency needed more money to put extra personnel and equipment on the street to take back the initiative. In Pasco County over the decades there have been spirited battles between the sheriff of the moment and the County Commission, which under state law can make cuts in Sheriff's Office spending. ...more

February 21, 2009

Pasco County sheriff's deputies shot and killed a suspected drug dealer during a shootout this morning. ...more

February 20, 2009

There's nothing like a brisk walk to get invigorate the system, and once again an entire community is invited out for a group stroll to pump up support for the troops overseas and resistance to local street gangs. The second annual Freedom March will begin at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 21, at Paul R. Smith Middle School, 1410 Sweetbriar Drive. ...more

February 14, 2009

Pasco Sheriff Bob White announced today he will only use a portion of the Penny for Pasco allocation slated for his agency next fiscal year and will hand over approximately $1.86 million to the county. ...more

February 13, 2009

Deputies have one more weapon against DUI offenders: A newish mobile DUI enforcement unit. ...more

February 12, 2009

For several years, authorities say, the Valentine Bloods gang has been growing and wreaking havoc on the streets of West Pasco County. ...more

February 12, 2009

A multiagency investigation into the Valentine Bloods gang has yielded arrests, and the agencies will hold a joint news conference this afternoon in Pasco County. The event will allow the agencies to announce who has been arrested. The agencies also will ask for the public's help locating gang members who are fugitives. ...more

February 11, 2009

Deputies have one more weapon against DUI offenders: A newish mobile DUI enforcement unit. The trailer isn't exactly new - nearly two decades old - but the onetime Crime Prevention Unit has been repurposed as the DUI Enforcement Mobile Unit. The $30,000 transformation was funded in part by a $16,000 grant from Pasco's Alliance for Substance Abuse Prevention, known as ASAP. The remaining $14,000 used to spruce up and outfit the once moldy trailer came from the Pasco Sheriff's Office's federal forfeiture funds. "Thanks to the drug dealers of Pasco County we were able to furbish this and finish out the grant," Pasco Sheriff Bob White said today, smiling outside his administration building. "Everyone plays a role in this." ...more

February 11, 2009