Florida Criminal Defense Blog

Modeled after a similar court in San Diego, misdemeanor and infraction offenses can now be handled in what’s being called a “homeless court” in Pinellas County. The court is so named because the minor offenses seen there are often committed by transients who can’t afford to pay fines ordered by the court. [Read more...]

Tax time is known to bring about more identity theft cases than any other time of year. Perhaps it is all of the identifying information being circulated through the mail in combination with people waiting on tax refunds. There are numerous news stories in various local outlets talking about how to protect yourself from identity fraud, but there are also numerous stories of the people being caught in the act. [Read more...]

Judge Ralph Eriksson seems to have recently had a change of heart when it comes to folks neglecting their court costs. The Seminole County judge had been jailing the non-payers until media showed up in his courtroom to watch. [Read more...]

The Florida Supreme Court ruled this week that running from police, even If you did nothing else wrong, constitutes resisting an arrest, a misdemeanor. This, they state, is only true in high crime neighborhoods where the area combined with your fleeing gives officers probable cause. [Read more...]

A Florida couple is facing federal fraud charges after being accused of submitting false grant proposals and converting the government money to their own use. [Read more...]

After 26 years of being locked up, Anthony Caravella was released this past week. Although his release is currently conditional, he marks a trend that is promising to innocent people behind bars but frightening for the criminal justice system as a whole. [Read more...]

A Florida man is facing very serious federal charges after being caught up in one of the largest Internet identity theft incidences in United States history. [Read more...]

Compared with other regions in the state Northwest Florida’s gang problem may seem like a small matter. To the people that live there, however, it is a growing problem.

According to the Okaloosa Sherriff’s Department, there are 4 known gangs in the area. On the evening of July 1^st a fight broke out between two of those gangs, the Crosstown and the Lintown Boys. The fight happened because a Lintown Boy had moved onto Crosstown turf. [Read more...]

Where can you go to get a lousy hot dog served by big time drug dealers? Well, according to the Orlando Sentinel, Hot Dog City used to be the place. Now, however, the owners and those connected to them have been arrested and face a number of charges from drug trafficking to money laundering. [Read more...]

A Fort Lauderdale club owner is facing charges that he started a fire that burned his own vehicle in his nightclub parking lot.

According to this Sun Sentinel article, Anthony Sannizzaro is facing charges of arson. He is the owner of Club Purgatory on State Road 84. [Read more...]