Investigation Underway After Victim Found on Tracks with Suspected Drugs POLK COUNTY, Fla. - An Auburndale man was tragically ...

Jason L. Pickles alleges that he did not receive care for a gunshot wound at the South County Jail. The sheriff's office calls the lawsuit "frivolous." ...

Both David Caviness and Rebecca Joan Smith were arrested and transported to the Polk County Jail. They were each charged with Driving While License Suspended/Revoked.

Scott Wilder, a spokesperson for the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, cited Pickles’ history of felony offenses, noting that he has been arrested in Polk County 16 times and held in the state ...

The Polk County Sheriff's Office said a Lakeland man was arrested for exchanging nude photos with a teenage girl and possessing child pornography.

A federal lawsuit claims the Polk County Sheriff's probe into a 12-year-old girl's suicide was more of a "publicity stunt" than an investigation.

A man filed a federal lawsuit against sheriff’s deputies, saying he was intentionally denied medical care at the Polk County Jail in Florida. Saad Chaudhry via Unsplash At a Florida jail, a man ...

A Florida sheriff’s deputy is accused of fondling a deputy sheriff in training, whom he allegedly told owed him oral sex.Scott Walker, 39, met up with the victim in Lakeland on Oct. 3 for training, ...

The death of a Polk County Jail inmate is under investigation after the man was found in his jail cell hanging by his neck with a bed sheet on Wednesday at 1:04 p.m.

Five inmates accuse a doctor of sexual assault at the Polk County Jail in 2018 and 2019. Attempts to reach the doctor for comment were unsuccessful.

Three Des Moines residents were sentenced to prison time after being convicted for their roles in a 2022 shooting that began with an argument over Air Jordan shoes.