Jessie Driggers was mowed down and killed as the 17-year-old was crossing U.S. Highway 41. Now the Florida Highway Patrol is asking for the public’s help in identifying the driver that killed the Tampa teenager. While there are two witnesses to the hit-and-run, police have very little to go on according to TampaBay.com.
The two witnesses who were with Driggers said it was too dark to identify the car that ran over the 17-year-old. According to reports all they saw were the tail lights as the car drove away. The only evidence left behind was a hubcap off the vehicle. The accident took place just after 11:30 p.m. on October 18.
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The attorney for former Hillsborough County Sheriff’s deputy Raymond Choy told the St. Petersburg Times that his client will plead guilty to charges that he forced a hit-and-run suspect to perform oral sex in exchange for her release. Choy was facing up to 60 years in jail on charges of kidnapping and sexual battery. Instead he will plead to sexual battery and false imprisonment and most likely serve five years in prison when Circuit Judge Wayne Timmerman sentences him in December.
The charges stem from an incident in April of 2007 when Choy was accused of agreeing to release a suspect from custody if she performed oral sex on him while in his patrol car. DNA tests later linked Choy to the victim leading to the charges. The judge in the case was set to allow a second woman to testify Choy also forced her into oral sex.
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The tragic story of a man that lost his wife of more than 60-years came to an end in a Hillsborough County courtroom on Wednesday when Roger Yeager was found guilty of reckless driving, vehicular homicide and street racing. The St. Petersburg Times reports that Yeager is facing at least 15 years in prison for the car accident that cost 83-year-old Vertis Ryan her life.
Yeager was found guilty of ramming his Nissan 350Z into the Ford Taurus that Vertis Ryan and her husband William were driving that night. It took jurors three hours to come back with the guilty verdicts. William Ryan never got to see justice in the death of his wife as he passed away from heart failure in August. According to the story sheriff’s investigators estimated that Yeager was driving at more than 100 M.P.H. in a 45 zone when he hit the Ryan’s car.
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A Pasco County mother has pled guilty to manslaughter and will receive 10 years in prison following shooting a man she thought was molesting her mentally retarded daughter. Sylvia Neely shot and killed 73-year-old Arthur Danner after he bragged about molesting her daughter and threatening to do it again according to a story on TampaBay.com.
The shooting took place in 1998 in Land O’ Lakes. Neely fired five rounds into Danner and the re-loaded the gun and shot him in the groin. Neely has already served some of her sentence after a 2000 conviction on second-degree murder charges. An appeals court granted her a new trial but she has decided to accept a plea rather than go back to court.
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A 13-year-old boy who was attacked by two teenagers in a video posted on You Tube. The 54-second clip has set off multiple investigations according to the Bradenton Herald. Police first want to know if the attack was staged for cameras but right now they are asking that battery charges be filed against the two teens responsible for beating the 13-year-old outside the Lakewood Ranch YMCA.
The victim of the attack did not report the incident until he found out the video of the beating had been placed on You Tube. The victim is seen on video being surrounded by a large group of teens. Two teens then attack the younger boy while the whole scene is set to music. The incident sparked another arrest when the father of one of the suspects saw the video and began to punch his son.
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According to an article on tbo.com, Sarasota is seeing a disturbing rise in teenagers and young adults committing murders. The article quotes Sarasota Police Chief Bill Spitler as saying over the past few years most of the city’s murder victims have been killed by teens or those just above the adult threshold. He added that the department has not arrested anyone in these murders above the age of 19.
Even more disturbing than the age of the alleged murders in Sarasota is the victims they are killing. Most are innocent people according to Spitler. Looking at the murder victims and you’ll find an Iraq war veteran who was killed in the middle of the day at a gas station. Or William Holley who is believed to have been killed because he drove down the wrong street at the wrong time. The trend isn’t isolated to Sarasota as there has been a 55% increase in the number of young adults charged with murder or manslaughter in Florida since 2003.
If you have been charged with a crime in Sarasota or Manatee County, please do not hesitate to contact a qualified Criminal Defense Attorney. Call Sarasota Lawyer Darren Finebloom at 1-800-FIGHT-IT (1-800-344-4848) or online at FightYourFelony.com to discuss the matter. Also you can contact Darren via email or by stopping in our Sarasota office located at 200 N Washington Blvd.

A Manatee County judge’s ruling that an accused murderer’s confession should be thrown out was upheld by the Second District Court of Appeal according to an article on Bradenton.com. Bradenton police detectives violated the rights of Clifford Davis by questioning him before and after reading him his Miranda Rights according to the ruling.
Davis admitted to killing his mother, having sex with her dead body and then going to the mall to shop according to court documents. His grandfather picked him up from the mall and upon returning to the apartment where he earlier killed his mother he killed his grandfather by standing on his neck until he died.
Prosecutors have charged Davis with two counts of first degree murder and are seeking the death penalty. Despite asking for an attorney, police continued to question Davis for hours. He eventually confessed to the crimes.
If you have been charged with a crime in Sarasota or Manatee County, please do not hesitate to contact Sarasota Criminal Defense Attorney David Haenel at 1-800-FIGHT-IT (1-800-344-4848) or online at FightYourCase.com to discuss the matter. Also you can contact David via email or by stopping in our Sarasota office located at 200 N Washington Blvd.

Manuel Lopez is on probation for aggravated stalking a 14-year-old. Part of the terms of his probation was house arrest which was monitored by an ankle bracelet. Lopez removed the ankle bracelet last week and police began a search for the Mulberry resident according to a story published on tbo.com.
Lopez, 42-years-old, was tracked down at a Domino’s Pizza in Plant City according to the sheriff’s office where he was placed under arrest. The Plant City Police got a tip that Lopez was at the Domino’s. Family members feared he was on the run with his 73-year-old father but that did not turn out to be the case.
If you have been charged with a crime in Hillsborough County please do not hesitate to contact Tampa Criminal Defense Attorney Darren Finebloom at 1-800-FIGHT-IT (1-800-344-4848) to discuss the matter or visit our website www.fightyourcase.com. Also you can contact Darren via email or by stopping in our Tampa office located at 3426 W. Kennedy Blvd.

A 20-year-old East Tampa man who was booked in Orient Road Jail has been charged with resisting arrest as reported on TampaBay.com. Clarence Jones tells a different story claiming he was beaten by an officer while they were pursuing a marijuana arrest. TPD is investigating the man’s charges.
Officer James Neil asked Jones for identification after seeing him and thinking he looked like that he had previously charged with trespassing. At that point the officer said he detected the smell of marijuana, a charge he was arrested on in 2008. When the officer went to search Jones he stiffened up. At that time officers say they took the suspect to the ground but he continued to resist. Officer Elvin Cruz admitted striking the suspect in the face to break his focus and the tactic was successful.
If you have been charged with a crime in Hillsborough County please do not hesitate to contact Tampa Criminal Defense Attorney Darren FInebloom at 1-800-FIGHT-IT (1-800-344-4848) to discuss the matter or visit our website www.fightyourcase.com. Also you can contact Darren via email or by stopping in our Tampa office located at 3426 W. Kennedy Blvd.

In February of 2008 Charles Ponday was set on protecting his Thonotosassa community from speeding cars. He stopped a fast moving truck and asked its driver to slow down. The incident quickly turned violent as a drunk passenger in the truck began beating Ponday. As 24-year-old Casey Landes was on top of Ponday ready to continue to beat him he was shot in the head by Ponday’s .40 caliber Glock.
The St. Petersburg Times now reports that Hillsborough Circuit Judge Robert Foster has tossed out the charge of manslaughter against Ponday claiming he fired the shot in self-defense under Florida’s “stand-your-ground” law. His case was buoyed by the driver of the truck who said Ponday never took a swing at his drunk friend and was bicycling away from the truck when he was attacked.
If you have been charged with a crime in Tampa and are in need of a qualified lawyer, please do not hesitate to contact Tampa Defense Attorney Stephen Higgins at 1-800-FIGHT-IT (1800-344-4848) or online at fightyourcase.com to discuss the matter. Also you can contact Stephen via email or by stopping by our new Tampa office located at 3426 W. Kennedy Blvd.