POLK COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — When Ruth Sanchez got to work Monday in the front office at the Polk County Sheriff’s Office in Winter Haven, there was already a line of about a dozen people.

POLK COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — The “most famous crime-fighting elf” is back this holiday season. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office announced that “Grady Judd: Santa’s Sheriff on a Shelf ...

Sheriff Grady Judd will brief the media at 5:30 p.m. Monday afternoon, June 30, 2025, from the scene of a deputy- involved ...

A suspect was injured in a shooting involving a Polk County Sheriff's deputy Monday, according to authorities.