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Citizens Use E-mail Alerts To Fight Community Crime

In a community as large as FishHawk Ranch, information travels near the speed of light. Proof of that was revealed last month after four teens were attacked and robbed on the trail behind FishHawk Creek Elementary.

Community Remembers Fallen Officer

“There is not a day that goes by that we don’t think about Ron,” said Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson J.D. Callaway, as he talked about his friend and longtime colleague on the force Ronald “Ron” Harrison, the veteran Hillsborough County sergeant who was killed by a gunman while sitting in his patrol car on [...]

Employee Helps Capture Bank Robber

A local citizen who works at DaSilva’s Coffee House & Roastery, located at 15282 FishHawk Blvd., stopped a bank robber in his tracks in early October.

Volunteers Put Crime Under Control

Once a month, Stacie Leonard puts on her patrol uniform and heads off to her shift as a Citizen’s Patrol Officer in Apollo Beach.  Leonard was one of the original graduates of the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office Citizen’s Patrol program. The Citizen’s Patrol program, similar to others around the Tampa Bay area, recruits and trains [...]