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Dan Sullivan @timesdan.bsky.social · 17h
Tampa seeks to take guns from ex-city candidate Elvis Piggott after arrest www.tampabay.com/news/tampa/2...
Tampa seeks to take guns from ex-city candidate Elvis Piggott after arrest
City lawyers filed for a risk protection order after Piggott was accused of pulling a gun at a campaign forum.
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Dan Sullivan @timesdan.bsky.social · 2d
State to execute Plant City’s ‘Deacon of Death’ for murders of 2 women www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2...
State to execute Plant City’s ‘Deacon of Death’ for murders of 2 women
Samuel Lee Smithers’ planned execution Tuesday would be the 14th in Florida this year — a record for the state.
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Dan Sullivan @timesdan.bsky.social · 6d
A Tampa jury this afternoon recommended by a 10-2 vote that Angel Cuz Choc should die for the murders of his girlfriend and her 4-year-old daughter. As he listened to a reading of the decision, the defendant began to wail. www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2...
Man who killed mother, 4-year-old should die, Tampa jury says
The same jury convicted Angel Cuz Choc this week in the vicious murders that occurred in 2024 in east Hillsborough County.
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Dan Sullivan @timesdan.bsky.social · 8d
Updated: Jury returns guilty verdict as man denies memory of Hillsborough stabbings www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2...
Jury returns guilty verdict after man denies memory of Hillsborough stabbings
Angel Cuz Choc testified Tuesday that an “evil spirit” took hold before his girlfriend and her 4-year-old daughter were killed.
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Dan Sullivan @timesdan.bsky.social · 8d
Man denies memory of Hillsborough stabbings as jury weighs murder case www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2...
Man denies memory of Hillsborough stabbings as jury weighs murder case
Angel Cuz Choc testified Tuesday that an “evil spirit” took hold before his girlfriend and her 4-year-old daughter were killed.
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Dan Sullivan @timesdan.bsky.social · 12d
Hillsborough sheriff leaders under scrutiny amid growing cheating scandal www.tampabay.com/news/hillsbo...
Hillsborough sheriff leaders under scrutiny amid growing cheating scandal
Two colonels face internal probe and a captain resigned over ties to man involved in academic cheating claim that felled ex-chief deputy.
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Dan Sullivan @timesdan.bsky.social · 16d
Death penalty trial opens in east Hillsborough stabbings of mother, girl www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2...
Death penalty trial opens in east Hillsborough stabbings of mother, girl
Angel Cuz Choc is accused in the brutal stabbings of his girlfriend and her 4-year-old daughter in Dover.
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Dan Sullivan @timesdan.bsky.social · 19d
Federal judge dismisses half of the charges against Tim Burke www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2...
Federal judge dismisses half of the charges against Tim Burke
U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle ruled that the law used to indict the Tampa media figure violates the First Amendment.
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Dan Sullivan @timesdan.bsky.social · 28d
Tampa jury finds 5 men guilty in murder of 4-year-old Sunny Bell www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2...
Tampa jury finds 5 men guilty in murder of 4-year-old Suni Bell
The 2021 drive-by shooting shook the city and culminated in a complex criminal trial.
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Dan Sullivan @timesdan.bsky.social · 29d
Steven Lorenzo seeks to end death penalty appeals in Tampa murders www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2...
Steven Lorenzo seeks to end death penalty appeals in Tampa murders
Lawyers representing Lorenzo questioned his mental competency as he insisted he wants to be executed.
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Dan Sullivan @timesdan.bsky.social · 29d
Tampa jury weighs case against 5 men in killing of 4-year-old Suni Bell www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2...
Tampa jury weighs case against 5 men in killing of 4-year-old Suni Bell
The 2021 drive-by shooting shook Tampa and culminated in a complex criminal trial.
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Dan Sullivan @timesdan.bsky.social · Sep 15
DeSantis orders execution of Plant City man known as 'Deacon of Death' www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2...
DeSantis orders execution of Plant City man known as ‘Deacon of Death’
Samuel Lee Smithers was sentenced to death for the 1996 murders of two women at an east Hillsborough County home.
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Dan Sullivan @timesdan.bsky.social · Sep 12
Florida to execute Polk man whose lawyers say he’s mentally disabled www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2...
Florida to execute Polk man whose lawyers say he’s mentally disabled
Evidence suggests David Pittman has lifelong intellectual disabilities, which lawyers say should bar him from the death penalty.
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Dan Sullivan @timesdan.bsky.social · Sep 9
A jury will weigh whether five men are responsible for a drive-by shooting that killed a 4-year-old girl in 2021.
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5 men face Tampa jury as trial opens in death of 4-year-old Suni Bell
The jury will decide if the men are guilty of murder and other charges in the shooting that shook the city in the fall of 2021.
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Dan Sullivan @timesdan.bsky.social · Sep 5
Reactions mixed in wake of Hillsborough chief deputy's cheating allegation www.tampabay.com/news/hillsbo...
Reactions mixed in wake of Hillsborough chief deputy’s cheating allegation
A community was “devastated” by Anthony Collins’ abrupt departure. But cops say his credibility was in question.
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Dan Sullivan @timesdan.bsky.social · Aug 29
Hillsborough chief deputy resigned amid academic cheating probe www.tampabay.com/news/hillsbo...
Hillsborough chief deputy resigned amid academic cheating probe
Anthony Collins left the sheriff’s office following an accusation that someone else helped complete his FBI National Academy classwork, among other allegations.
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Dan Sullivan @timesdan.bsky.social · Aug 20
Trial postponed in Tim Burke-Fox News video leak case www.tampabay.com/news/tampa/2...
Trial postponed in Tim Burke-Fox News video leak case
A federal judge granted a request to reschedule as Burke’s lawyers seek records central to his First Amendment defense.
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Dan Sullivan @timesdan.bsky.social · Aug 20
Fugitive ex-cop arrested four months after skipping trial in fatal Tampa DUI www.tampabay.com/news/hillsbo...
Fugitive ex-cop arrested 4 months after skipping Tampa trial in fatal DUI
Joshua Roelofs, accused of causing the deaths of two men, was located last week in Colombia.
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Dan Sullivan @timesdan.bsky.social · Aug 12
Defense seeks dismissal of murder charges in death of 4-year-old Suni Bell www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2...
Defense seeks dismissal of murder charges in death of 4-year-old Suni Bell
Four of the five men accused in the 2021 drive-by shooting say the state’s evidence is insufficient to prove a murder conspiracy.
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Dan Sullivan @timesdan.bsky.social · Aug 6
Conspirator gets house arrest and probation in Tim Burke-Fox News leak case www.tampabay.com/news/tampa/2...
Conspirator gets house arrest and probation in Tim Burke-Fox News leak case
Marco Gaudino pleaded guilty to working with the Tampa media guru to access TV footage.
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Dan Sullivan @timesdan.bsky.social · Aug 1
Court records detail what led to 2023 arrest in Jennifer Odom cold case www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2...
Court records detail what led to 2023 arrest in Jennifer Odom cold case
Several witnesses said Jeffrey Norman Crum spoke of having murdered the 12-year-old Pasco County girl, records state.
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Dan Sullivan @timesdan.bsky.social · Jul 30
Memo details Fox News video leak as Tim Burke conspirator faces sentence www.tampabay.com/news/tampa/2...
Memo details Fox News video leak as Tim Burke conspirator faces sentence
“It was a dumb mistake,” Marco Gaudino said of his activities with Burke, a Tampa media figure.
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Dan Sullivan @timesdan.bsky.social · Jul 25
Jury votes death penalty for Shelby Nealy in murders of wife’s family www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2...
Jury votes death penalty for Shelby Nealy in murders of wife’s family
A jury voted 11-1 that Shelby Nealy should be sentenced to death for the murders of Richard, Laura and Nicholas Ivancic.
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Dan Sullivan @timesdan.bsky.social · Jul 25
Hillsborough sheriff's chief deputy resigns 4 months after promotion www.tampabay.com/news/hillsbo...
Hillsborough sheriff’s chief deputy resigns 4 months after promotion
Chief Deputy Anthony Collins cited “personal/family reasons” for his resignation, a sheriff’s office spokesperson said.
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Dan Sullivan @timesdan.bsky.social · Jul 24
Tampa federal prosecutor fired by Pam Bondi to sue over dismissal www.tampabay.com/news/2025/07...
Tampa federal prosecutor fired by Pam Bondi to sue over dismissal
Michael Gordon, who handled cases against Jan. 6 rioters, was abruptly dismissed last month in the midst of a high-profile fraud case
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