“I’m the one you’re looking for,” a Winter Haven man wanted for attempted murder told Polk County deputies arresting him.
A group of teens from Philadelphia who were in Polk County for a football tournament were arrested for retail theft, authorities said.
A Florida driver faces multiple charges after claiming he had a “dirty bomb” in his truck during a traffic stop at a Publix, police said.
Florida state police said the incident happened early Saturday morning in Polk County.
A speeding driver and officer were injured in an early morning crash in Winter Haven, the Florida Patrol said.
A crash that injured 5 people and involved the Polk County Fire Rescue battalion chief triggered a mass casualty incident, officials said.
The impact of the crash caused both the driver and his passenger to be thrown from the motorcycle, police say.
The crash occurred Saturday morning on South Florida Avenue, police said.
A woman was charged with animal cruelty after her deployed brother's two dogs died in her care in Polk County, the sheriff's office said.
A murder suspect, a kingpin who authorities say controlled a Polk County town and 30 others are arrested in an alleged drug ring.
A new report on a fatal gator attack in Polk County says the reptile performed a death roll on a woman before dragging her underwater.
Lakeland police arrested a wanted man on multiple felony charges after he taunted the Polk County Sheriff’s Office on social media.
The man swam an alligator-infested lake to access a gated community, refusing a life preserver and growling at one person, police said.
A man fatally stabbed another man 113 times because of the "voices in (his) head," Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said.
Deputies were called to Spirit Lake Road at around 2:29 a.m., WFLA reported.
When two men were found sleeping in front of a gas pump at a Polk County gas station, one bit a K-9 deputy’s ear, the sheriff’s office said.
Nearly two years after the Polk Co. teen was accused of shooting and killing his father, he was tried for murder in the death of his mother.
Seven-month-old Uriel Schock died in November 2022 when her grandmother, Tracey Nix, left her in a hot car in Hardee County.
The suspect, previously accused of groping several women, was released from prison in October, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office said.
A Lakeland woman was arrested for threatening a Blue Cross Blue Shield health insurance rep, saying, “delay, deny, depose,” reports said.
A Lakeland man tried to grab a baton from an officer during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol building, the U.S. DOJ said.
Residents alerted the Polk County Sheriff's office, WFLA.com reported.
The man claimed he was high on drugs at the time he was accused of breaking into a FL home and grabbing carpet cleaner, reports say.
Nineteen people are facing charges after prosecutors said they defrauded more than two dozen banks and hundreds of people and businesses.
Deputies received a call Saturday from a 61-year-old woman who said she was being violently beaten by her husband.
Under Harris-Acting ICE Director Patrick Lechleitner said 13000 illegal immigrants convicted of murder-15,000 sex offenders entered U.S.
A FL sheriff said a 17-year-old boy accused of fatally stabbing his mom last weekend was charged in 2023 in his dad's shooting death.
Three people were arrested after an argument over the ownership of a cat turned violent in Lakeland, a report said.
A Polk County attorney gambled more than $1.7 million of a deceased client’s money at Seminole Hard Rock Casino, the sheriff's office said.
The couple was visiting Lakeland from Everett, Massachusetts with their 7-year-old daughter when they were fatally struck.
The 16-month-old boy was hospitalized in critical condition after his mother ran over him and his father, the Polk County sheriff said.
Four of five suspects charged on suspicion of trafficking fentanyl over 28 grams were arrested in Polk Co. while a fifth person is at large.
Sheriff Grady Judd said deputies approached the man in his car near Hunt Fountain Park before he started shooting.
The Winter Haven man told WFLA the accused car thief had "a good heart" for returning his mother's ashes after allegedly stealing his car.
A Lake Alfred city commissioner and former mayor was charged with 300 counts of child pornography, the Polk County sheriff said.
A 21-year-old University of Florida student killed his mother in Frostproof while visiting for a family event, the sheriff’s office said.
Though the person was not identified Tuesday, a media outlet reported the pilot was the sole person aboard the plane.
The Hillsborough and Polk county sheriff's offices partnered to locate Kelly Vazquez, who disappeared in May 2021.
A 16-year-old who pulled a gun on spring breakers at a FL beach threw the firearm and bags of marijuana into the ocean, authorities said.
The Polk County Sheriff has arrested or issued warrants for 24 people accused of child sex crimes or sex offenders violating the law.