Stealing pills and pawning his glock. He pawned it at a pawnshop in new port richey. This kind of addiction can affect anybody and his former deputys life was spiraling downward. He is broken. And you know, he said that he just didnt have any money. Needed to pay and, it was his way of being backed into a corner. He needed help. Reporter the sheriff says it was smiths girlfriend who actually tipped off investigators. She sent a picture of the pills which we now know possibly numbered in the 300, perhaps even 400 in total. He could face additional charges in pasco county because ha is where the supposed crime thank you peter bernard. A bomb threat at lego land hours ago caused the park to shut down for the entire day. It sent police combing through every inch of the park. Rod, authorities now say this is a hoax right . Reporter yeah, they do, but they are taking it very seriously. Winter haven police are still here. They are just leaving now. There are officers still there. This bomb th
Of people leaving around noon today. Park general manager adrian jones says they believe the threat to be a hoax, but out of an abundance of caution, the park closed down the rest of the day. Park goers told us how it all went down. Everyone was very calm. Nobody ran. It was. You could see that people from the park were a little. More scar. Daughter, she starts crying. But, we. We controlled that. People were allowed to go back to their hotels around 5 00 today. Newschannel8 was there when authorities brought west wild hogs to polk county. He is the one accused of tennessee. A deputy is accused of pawning his Service Weapon and stealing drugs. 32yearold steve smith is off the job and facing charges. Pinellas sheriff tells us the former deputy sold oxycodone pills that had been brought to the station to be destroyed. He is also accused of pawning his issued handgun. A lakeland woman was killed this through her house. Ryan talent lost control and slammed his truck into the home of revere
Highway patrol searching for the driver hit and killed a 17yearold high school student. Ashley perdomo was walking on hillsborough avenue when she was hit last night near blue springs drive. He driver did not stop. Ashley was a senior Hillsborough High School who grief counselors at the hig school today to help teachers and students anyone with information about the hitandrun should call crime stoppers. In student was hit by car this morning. And critically injured. This happened around 6 30 p. M. At congress ridge road in port richie Sheriffs Office is 13yearold Gabriel Rodriguez ran across the street right into the path of an oncoming car. E is hospitalized in Critical Condition. The driver was not charged. Deputies arrested one man looking for another in connection with a violent Home Invasion. Deputy say richard can another man knocked in a womans when she answered the pointed a gun at her and demanded her car keys. Deputies later spotted them in the stolen lexus gave chase. They s
Authorities who are investigating at this time. The Authorities Say they dont believe the area is under any sort of threat as far as the cars passing by. People should not be concerned driving in the area. Well follow the situation. Heartbreak for the family of a senior. A woman hit driver. The driver did not stop and no one has been caught. Were at the scene of the crash. Lets start with the family. How are they holding up . Reporter theyre devastated. Ashley was a hard worker an a student in school and worked hard at her job and thats where she was, leaving her won crossing hillsborough avenue and headed home from work but she this is ashley on tuesday with her brother and mother. Two days later. Ashley. And her mother can not try to contain her emotions. Who can blame . Her,her 17 yearold daughter is gone. My daughter loved me. She say mommy into a modeling career, she wanted to be a model and buy a home for my mother. That was her goal. She had a job at the supermarket on hillsboro
Room language. Good morning. Welcome to news channel 8 today. Im gayle guyardo. And im gene ramirez. Thank you for joining us on this the friday morning. Leigh spann is off but we have Ed Bloodsworth in the house. Yeah, good morning, guys. The inland locations, you may see a few light drops. We have a few light showers from the east coast throughout the night. Just a few drops on otherwise, the temperatures in the 70s. 75 in tampa. 68 in zephyrhills. And getting to 87 for today. And your mornings are likely to stay mild as well. Were talking about lows in the 70s. So above average temperatures as we head into the weekend, leslee lacey. 70s, how exciting. Seemed like yesterday when it was scorching. Yeah. Well, traffic, we are heading off to a sad today. And westbound i4 connecting to southbound 275 is blocked. And so what happens is youre taken northbound on 275. Weve got our photographer eric live on the scene. And what you are looking at right now is westbound i4. As he zooms in, its