"They devastated the house. They gutted the house," Judd said. The suspects are also accused of stealing and selling his mother's car.

A Lakeland man is facing money laundering charges after deputies said he was the ring leader behind an illegal gambling house ...

Devarjaye “DJ” Daniel, a 13-year-old boy from Texas fighting incurable brain cancer, was sworn in as an honorary deputy by ...

Beneath a graying sky that foreshadowed the hurricane to come, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd shrugged. “Never before did I think that we’d be beat up for giving people a warning and keeping ...

LAKELAND, Fla. — "Have you ever seen a cranker colony?" Sheriff Grady Judd asked in a video posted to YouTube on Friday. Revealing a group of 11 mugshots, he said: "Now you have." The 'cranker ...