FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Erin Maloney, Communications Director Office of the State Attorney, 13th Judicial Circuit (813) 557-3366 | Erin.Maloney@sao13th.com TAMPA, FL (December 5, 2023) — Five individuals involved in a University of South Florida protest have accepted responsibility for their actions in March 2023. Four students and one employee were
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Erin Maloney, Communications Director Office of the State Attorney, 13th Judicial Circuit (813) 557-3366 | Erin.Maloney@sao13th.com TAMPA, FL (December 1, 2023) — A judge sentenced Ja’Marion Strange to 45 years in prison for the shooting death of a 13-year-old boy. Strange was 16 years-old in 2021 when he opened
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Erin Maloney, Communications Director Office of the State Attorney, 13th Judicial Circuit (813) 557-3366 | Erin.Maloney@sao13th.com TAMPA, FL (November 27, 2023) — The defendant who killed a teenager during the October mass shooting in Ybor City will be held behind bars until trial. The State Attorney’s Office successfully argued
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Erin Maloney, Communications Director Office of the State Attorney, 13th Judicial Circuit (813) 557-3366 | Erin.Maloney@sao13th.com TAMPA, FL (November 17, 2023) — Jimmie Gardner, a youth motivational speaker and brother-in-law of former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, is facing serious charges of human trafficking
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Erin Maloney, Communications Director Office of the State Attorney, 13th Judicial Circuit (813) 557-3366 | Erin.Maloney@sao13th.com TAMPA, FL (November 16, 2023) — The man who spent nearly four decades on the run for the 1984 murder of a Hillsborough County woman accepted responsibility for the
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Erin Maloney, Communications Director Office of the State Attorney, 13th Judicial Circuit (813) 557-3366 | Erin.Maloney@sao13th.com TAMPA, FL (October 13, 2023) — State Attorney Suzy Lopez addressed the Florida Supreme Court’s Judicial Circuit Assessment Committee at its final public hearing today in Tampa to ask members
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Erin Maloney, Communications Director Office of the State Attorney, 13th Judicial Circuit (813) 557-3366 | Erin.Maloney@sao13th.com TAMPA, FL (October 9, 2023) — Enrico Adams will spend the rest of his life in prison after a jury found him guilty in the gruesome beating death
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Erin Maloney, Communications Director Office of the State Attorney, 13th Judicial Circuit (813) 557-3366 | Erin.Maloney@sao13th.com TAMPA, FL (October 6, 2023) — A judge has sentenced Mario Gonzalez to 20 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to two counts of DUI manslaughter. Gonzalez caused a crash on
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Erin Maloney, Communications Director Office of the State Attorney, 13th Judicial Circuit (813) 557-3366 | Erin.Maloney@sao13th.com TAMPA, FL (September 27, 2023) — The State Attorney’s Office has successfully prosecuted Nahshon Shannon for the brutal 2017 murder of his own daughter. A jury found Shannon guilty
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Erin Maloney, Communications Director Office of the State Attorney, 13th Judicial Circuit (813) 557-3366 | Erin.Maloney@sao13th.com TAMPA, FL (September 7, 2023) — A Tampa man who stole the identities of four homeowners in an attempt to sell their homes will spend 10 years in prison