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 ...

A Florida sheriff’s office arrested 244 suspects during a major undercover human trafficking operation, officials said.

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 ...

Adarius Taylor — who played for Tampa Bay, Carolina and Cleveland — was arrested on felony and misdemeanor charges ...

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 ...

POINCIANA, Fla. — A 30-year-old man is behind bars after he allegedly attacked a Polk County Sheriff's Office deputy and several firefighters during an arrest on Tuesday. Elijah Howard has been ...