Polk County Sheriff's Office detectives are investigating the death of a Polk County Jail Inmate that occurred during the early morning of August 26, 2017 at Bartow Regional Medical Center. The inmate who died is 55-year-old Michael Neupert of Lakeland. He was in jail for failure to register as a…
Bartow Police Department Press Release On 03/15/2020 at about 11:03am, a traffic crash was reported at the intersection of US Hwy 98 N at Lyle Parkway. Units responded to the area, and located Jennifer Vargas, 30 years of age, unresponsive in the driver seat of a 2020 Ford Fusion. Two…
Police say a paramedic had one knee on the chest before punching a 67-year-old patient on the forehead while being transported to a hospital in Bartow, Florida.