The Florida Highway Patrol is conducting driver license and vehicle inspection checkpoints this month. Troopers will concentrate efforts on vehicles being operated with bad brakes, worn tires and defective lighting equipment. In Polk County troopers will be stationed at State … read more.

Polk County Sheriff’s Office Agriculture detectives identified two suspects responsible for the December grand theft of cattle from a pasture in Polk City. On Dec. 12, 2011, the owner of the cattle, Ed Harvey Davis, 805 Braddock Road, Auburndale, reported … read more.

Polk crime rate is at a historic low. Polk County’s crime rate in the unincorporated areas and contract cities dropped from 2010 to 2011, according to the Uniform Crime Report statistics. The crime rate, which is the number of crimes … read more.

Prosecutors say a 19-year-old man should be executed for killing a central Florida police  officer in December. The state attorney’s office in Polk County will seek the death penalty for Kyle Williams in the  Dec. 18 slaying of 25-year-old Lakeland … read more.

The death of a man who died of what may be a heart attack in the Central County Jail Friday is under investigation. Anthony Dale McKnight, 40, of Haines City, was pronounced dead at Bartow Regional Medical Center at 8:09 … read more.

It’s been 10 years since the Move Over law went into effect to try to ensure the safety of emergency personnel on the sides of the road. But even with this law, 170 law enforcement officers in the country have … read more.

Five law enforcement agencies working undercover charged five people acting as travelers and three other people in unrelated crimes, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office reported. Polk County Sheriff’s Office used undercover detectives and help from the Florida Department of Business … read more.

The Polk County Sheriff’s Office will hold tryouts for its volunteer Mounted Search and Recovery Team on Saturday, Jan. 21, at Combee Arena in Lakeland. The MSART volunteers work with sworn deputy sheriffs during deployments where horses and riders are … read more.

Polk County Sheriff’s deputies are seeking information about a shooting that occurred on Sept. 29 in Haines City. At approximately 5:10 p.m. that evening, a person was shot at the intersection of H.L. Smith and Hatchineha Road. The victim received … read more.

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