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A massive alligator was caught Friday carrying the lifeless body of a Floridian down a canal. A witness first spotted the 14-foot reptile with its victim clenched between its jaws on a residential street in Largo, a small community just four miles south of Clearwater. “I could tell there was a body in his mouth, so I started recording,” witness JaMarcus Bullard told Spectrum Bay News 9. Bullard, who was on his way to a job interview, alerted the Largo Fire Department, which was stationed just steps away from the gory scene. Emergency personnel quickly pulled the gator from the...

The woman whose lifeless body was found clenched between a 14-foot alligator’s jaws was arrested just two months earlier for trespassing on county wetland property. Sabrina Peckham, 41, was identified by police Saturday as the victim being dragged by the beast in a canal along a residential street in Largo, a small community just four miles south of Clearwater. The homeless woman was caught by Pinellas County deputies around 6:30 a.m. on July 14 for trespassing onto county wetland just half a mile from where she was found dead Friday, court records show. Peckman ignored posted signage warning against unlaw...

CLEARWATER, Fla. (WFLA) — Two paramedics with the Clearwater Fire & Rescue Department were suspended after a man they pronounced dead last week was found to be breathing. The agency said two medics from Station 47 responded to a home in an unincorporated area of Pinellas County Wednesday morning after Thomas Maxwell reportedly suffered cardiac arrest. “His lips were blue and he was cold but I was doing CPR, and my friend was there and she was doing chest compressions,” said his daughter, Phebe Maxwell told WFLA. “His chest was going up and down and he was making noises, so...

A Florida man was bitten in the arm by an alligator Thursday while washing his hands in a pond, according to the City of Sanibel. Fortunately, the man was able to break free from the alligator and call 911. People on the scene of the attack applied a tourniquet until EMS workers arrived, officials said in a statement. He sustained a serious injury on his right arm and was transported to the hospital for treatment, according to officials. Florida Fish and Wildlife along with the Florida State trapper are actively attempting to capture the alligator at the pond. There have...

LARGO, Fla. (WFLA) — Two Largo residents were arrested Wednesday after police say they were caught partially eating a rotisserie chicken at Walmart and putting it back on a shelf. Arrest reports from the Largo Police Department said Cristian Ray Reeves-Putnam, 26, and Alexis Ann Marie Castillo, 32, were shopping for food when they were allegedly seen eating a chicken out of a box. Police said after the suspects had their fill, they re-sealed the half-eaten chicken and back on the shelf. They were later caught trying to leave the store without properly scanning or paying for items hidden in...

Jack Dawson didn't die at the end of the movie "Titanic." He swam down to Tampa Bay. - That's what you would think, walking into the home of @titanicfan97. What's happening: The 30-year-old Largo resident, who's known only by his username, has gathered a cult following of nearly 50,000 social media users, mostly through TikTok, as he builds the self-proclaimed world's largest collection of "Titanic" on VHS. - He gave Axios an exclusive look at the collection that's now surpassed 500 copies. Once he collects 500 more, @titanicfan97, who asked to remain anonymous, told Axios he'll reveal his face to...

LARGO, Fla. (WFLA) — A Pinellas Park woman was arrested on Saturday after Largo police officers said she was driving with nearly three times the legal limit of alcohol in her system and carrying a bag of cocaine in her bra. According to a Largo Police Department arrest report, officers spotted a van swerving between lanes on East Bay Drive near Huntington Drive at around 10:43 p.m. They pulled over Tiffany Lynn Novak, 33, and claimed they noticed “numerous signs of impairment”, including glassy eyes, slurred speech and a strong smell of alcohol that would grow stronger as she spoke...

LARGO, Fla. (WFLA) — A Clearwater woman was allegedly caught stealing from a Largo Walmart Saturday, according to the Largo Police Department. An affidavit said loss prevention officers at the Walmart on Roosevelt Boulevard confronted Amanda Spree Mears, 35, as she tried to leave the store. Police said Mears tried to hide a “Plus One” massager in her purse and walk out with it. When confronted, Mears ran away into some trees nearby but was caught by the officers, according to the affidavit.

Pce in Florida have arrested a man who live-streamed himself committing a series of crimes inside a Walgreens. On Wednesday, Ryan Greenlee assaulted a male clerk, became hostile toward sotre staff, and hit a newborn baby in the head with a box before claiming he “didn’t do nothing.” The perpetrator live-streamed the bizarre series of incidents on Facebook, starting from the moment he entered the Walgreens branch on Ulmerton Road in Largo, Florida. Once inside the store, Greenlee looked to purchase two packs of beef jerky and waved his money at the camera but it soon became clear he did...

The man who was shot is still in the hospital and may face a charge of Aggravated Assault against the Good Samaritan. LARGO – Officers have determined that a Good Samaritan who shot a man he was trying to help was acting in self defense when he shot the man, the Largo Police Department said. Michael E. Girardin, 63, was wounded in the upper left leg. He remains in Bayfront Health St. Petersburg for non-life-threatening injuries after the April 7 incident. (For related story, click here.) He is also thought to have been hit by a car. The incident happened...

Comedian Iliza Shlesinger is getting sued for discrimination after a man was turned away from her “Girls Night In” show at Largo at the Cornet in Los Angeles. The show was advertised as an event for women and lightheartedly used the phrase “No Boys Allowed” to promote it — but that didn’t stop George St. George from buying a ticket to the event for himself and his friend. According to the suit, the tickets were $30 a piece and when they arrived at the venue to pick up their tickets from will call they said they were allowed to attend...

A couple gave their teenage daughters cocaine and marijuana if they went to school and did household chores, authorities said. Chad and Joey Mudd, of Largo, a suburb in the Tampa-St. Petersburg area, gave their daughters, ages 13 and 14, drugs as a “bargaining tool” for school attendance and doing chores, Pinellas County Sheriff’s detectives said. They were arrested Monday. According to an affidavit, the mother said she smoked pot with her daughters five times and the father snorted cocaine with the teens and one of his daughter’s boyfriends in his truck. …

Full title - "'You deserve to rot in hell for what you have done to me': Daughter's twitter outburst about mom who has resurfaced after being missing for ELEVEN years" The teenage daughter of a woman who secretly left her family 11 years ago says she's angry and doesn't want to have a relationship with her. Morgan Heist said Thursday that she's still trying to sort out why Brenda Heist would have decided to abandon her and her brother in Pennsylvania in 2002 and hitchhike with strangers to Florida. Morgan Heist is now a 19-year-old freshman at a community college...

LARGO | Surrounded by teenage friends on the back porch of his house, Thorin Montgomery was first up in a contest of Russian roulette. Right away, the .38-caliber revolver fired its round. Badly wounded, the 17-year old was rushed to the hospital Friday night. Keeping vigil, friends wrote wishes online that he might summon some sort of inner strength and pull through. But he died around 3 a.m. Sunday at Bayfront Medical Center. And friends who now dedicated Web posts to his memory struggled to reconcile how the teen with a bright smile and happy demeanor could be dead. "Truly...

Three hours ago over 200 eager supporters where at the Marriot Hotel in Key Largo to great America's great conservative hope Marco Rubio. Entering the doorway first of the panoramic third floor of the Marriot overlooking Fla. Bay with a huge thunderstorm in process was our House of Rep. lady Ileana ros Lehtinen. She stood in the doorway and posed for photos. I got to greet her as she entered and soon sheer pandemoneum erupted as Sen. Marco Rubio entered the doorway. Before he could get into the room he met and greeted dozens of well wishers, posed for photos...

LARGO -- A Dunedin mother is facing attempted murder charges after police say she met up with her 15-year-old son at a Largo doctor's office and used a knife to stab and slash him. Celeste Minardi is held without bond in the Pinellas County Jail after stabbed her son and slashed his throat and face in a doctor's office Saturday morning along Seminole Boulevard. Largo Police say the teen suffered serious injuries but are not saying what prompted the attack. Minardi meets her son at the doctor's office but instead of bringing him personal care items police say she brought...

I heard on the Schnitt Show this evening when I was coming home that Steve Stanton, the city manager of Largo in Pinelas County, Florida, is going to undergo a sex change operation. His new name will be Sue. Mr? Stanton is 42 years old, married with a 13 year old son. What is he thinking? Can someone confirm this?

The mayor at his side, longtime Largo City Manager Steve Stanton disclosed to the St. Petersburg Times on Wednesday he is undergoing hormone therapy and counseling in preparation for a sex-change operation. Through the process, which could take well over a year, Stanton plans to remain as the chief executive of this city of 76,000. He has the support of Mayor Pat Gerard, who was elected last March. “He’s a dedicated city manager and puts his job first,” she said. Stanton, 48, said he eventually will change his name to Susan, the name his late mother would have given him...