Category Archives: Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Erin Maloney, Communications Director Office of the State Attorney, 13th Judicial Circuit (813) 557-3366 | [email protected]   TAMPA, FL (June 24, 2026) — The State Attorney’s Office will file criminal charges against Detroit Lions player Terrion Arnold following his arrest in connection with a February robbery

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Erin Maloney, Communications Director Office of the State Attorney, 13th Judicial Circuit (813) 557-3366 | [email protected]     TAMPA, FL (June 12, 2026) — A jury returned a verdict just before midnight on Thursday in the Jean Pierre Ojeda Salazar case. The 27-year-old was found guilty of two counts

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Erin Maloney, Communications Director Office of the State Attorney, 13th Judicial Circuit (813) 557-3366 | [email protected]   TAMPA, FL (May 15, 2026) — A Hillsborough County jury recommended sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole for defendants Isaiah Chance, Sean Gathright, Davion Murphy,

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Erin Maloney, Communications Director Office of the State Attorney, 13th Judicial Circuit (813) 557-3366 | [email protected]   TAMPA, FL (May 8, 2026) — The State Attorney’s Office filed a notice of intent to seek the death penalty against Hisham Abugharbieh, who is charged with two counts of first-degree murder

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Erin Maloney, Communications Director Office of the State Attorney, 13th Judicial Circuit (813) 557-3366 | [email protected]   TAMPA, FL (April 29, 2026) — State Attorney Suzy Lopez has announced a first-of-its-kind public safety partnership with Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier to examine the role artificial intelligence may play in criminal

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Erin Maloney, Communications Director Office of the State Attorney, 13th Judicial Circuit (813) 557-3366 | [email protected] TAMPA, FL (March 17, 2026) — A Seffner man will spend the rest of his life in prison after a jury convicted him of attempting to kill a Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office deputy

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Erin Maloney, Communications Director Office of the State Attorney, 13th Judicial Circuit (813) 557-3366 | [email protected]   TAMPA, FL (January 15, 2026) — The Hillsborough County State Attorney’s Office has filed criminal charges against the three men accused of disrupting a student prayer gathering at a University of

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Erin Maloney, Communications Director Office of the State Attorney, 13th Judicial Circuit (813) 557-3366 | [email protected]       TAMPA, FL (December 2, 2025) — The Hillsborough County State Attorney’s Office will file several additional charges against Silas Sampson, the man accused of causing the deadly Ybor City crash

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Erin Maloney, Communications Director Office of the State Attorney, 13th Judicial Circuit (813) 557-3366 | [email protected]   TAMPA, FL (October 9, 2025) — A Hillsborough County jury recommended the death penalty for Angel Gabriel Cuz Choc in the brutal stabbing deaths of his girlfriend, Amalia Coc