"When you walk into a store and try to leave with nearly $2,500 worth of unpaid merchandise, that’s not a mistake—that’s a ...

A massive multi-county manhunt concluded with the capture of a suspect less than 24 hours after a brutal stabbing homicide in ...

The Polk County Sheriff’s Office has reported 454 immigration encounters since Aug. 1, more than any agency in Florida ...

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd is criticizing Pasco County Fire Rescue after one of its firefighters was arrested in ...

The woman, who was charged with lying when she accused her great uncle of rape, only to record him in the act later, has ...

Investigators say evidence in many of his cases, often involving child or sexual abuse, either didn't exist or disappeared.

POLK COUNTY, Fla. — A man is dead after Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said he was found drowned in Lake Clinch, near Frostproof, Florida, Sunday afternoon. Judd said deputies responded to the lake ...

Sherriff Judd has gone viral over the years for his no nonsense, colorful, and straight patriotic press conferences.

Sheriff Judd's office said that in Polk County, there are 1,431 sex offenders registered, of which 158 are registered as sex ...