Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirmed with the sheriff's office said Pereira is in the country illegally from ...

The Polk County, Florida, operation, conducted over nine days in May, resulted in the arrest of the highest number of individuals ever recorded in a single sting by the sheriff's office.

Polk County's sheriff said the man had been acting bizarrely at a gas station, then swam through an alligator-laden lake into ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. - A targeted Memorial Day weekend traffic initiative conducted by the Polk County Sheriff’s Office from ...

Timothy Schulz was shot and killed by deputies after an alligator attack and erratic behavior, which included charging at ...

A man acting erratically in Lakeland, Florida, was fatally shot by Polk County deputies after charging ... according to the Sheriff's Office. (This story was revised to add new information.) ...

She didn’t realize what had happened until she was in jail ... they will commit crime." Polk County PEACE says although the county has a pre-arrest diversion program, it is only given ...

Melvin Rafael Pardo-Acevedo, 33, was arrested on a charge of first-degree murder with a firearm. According to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, a deputy performed a traffic stop Wednesday night when a ...

A sweeping multi-agency undercover operation in Polk County culminated in the arrests of 255 individuals allegedly involved ...

A man armed with garden shears was fatally shot by deputies in Polk County, Florida, minutes after surviving an apparent ...

A man, who Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd says has an extensive criminal history, has been charged with five counts of ...