Tampa Bay police officials say dubious pain pill businesses keep going
By Meg Laughlin and Letitia Stein, Times staff writers Thursday, April 14, 2011 By MEG LAUGHLIN and LETITIA STEIN Times Staff Writers TAMPA — Superior Injury Center was shut down last year as an illegal pain clinic. But police say the many people who flocked there for prescription narcotics soon returned. They gathered down the block, in a walled-off breezeway behind a brown brick building with ...
Husband seeks to preserve $9.7 million judgment against ex-wife
By William R. Levesque, Times Staff Writer Wednesday, April 13, 2011 TAMPA — Maria George said the only way to stop her ex-husband from "calling his Godfather" and arranging her death by poison, by bullet or by sabotaging her car brakes was to write a letter. So in 2004 she sent one to 3,000 people, alleging threats, spousal abuse and business misconduct by her investment-banking ex-husband. She ...
Lakeland Personal Injury Lawyers Win $7.25 Million Verdict – Jury Holds Polk County Sheriffs Office in Contempt
David C. Dismuke and John P. Berke of Burnetti, P.A obtain verdict for plaintiff killed by driver under the influence of methamphetamine. Polk County Sheriffs Office fails to take legal action against intoxicated defendant.
In Tampa, auto insurance fraud is lucrative — until it's caught
By Susan Taylor Martin, Times Senior Correspondent Sunday, April 10, 2011 Dr. Alex Petro claimed to be disabled because of a car accident in Hillsborough County. So disabled, he told insurers, that he couldn't even cut his grass or take out the garbage. He collected more than $300,000 in disability payments. But when Petro was arrested on prescription drug charges , Pinellas sheriff's deputies ...
Cornerback Aqib Talib's latest legal trouble puts Tampa Bay Buccaneers in a tougher spot
Aqib Talib, the Bucs’ top cornerback the past two seasons, has an uncertain future with the team after being accused in Texas of shooting at his sister’s boyfriend during a fight at the boyfriend’s home.