Dan Sullivan

Tampa, United States

Courts and criminal justice reporter for the @TB_Times. Storyteller. Trial watcher. Submitter of public records requests. Man about town. I hate Twitter.

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Articles

Plant City woman gets 67 years for 2nd fatal drunk driving crash

1 week ago | tampabay.com | Dan Sullivan

TAMPA — The Plant City woman who for the second time in her life admitted driving drunk and causing a crash that killed someone should serve 67 years in prison, a judge ruled Friday. Jennifer Carvajal wept and buried her face behind her long black locks throughout a three-hour sentencing hearing. She apologized repeatedly to the family of Pedro Carbajal, her cousin who was killed in the crash off Interstate 4, and two others who were seriously injured.
Pasco drug leader gets 22 years in hot sauce torture kidnapping case

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Dan Sullivan

TAMPA — As drug cases go, this one was horrendous. It involved one dealer accusing another of stealing his business, a kidnapping plot and torture by hot sauce. It ended Wednesday when a federal judge sentenced Mario Espino, a young man a prosecutor called “a victim of his own ambition,” who aspired to be the “No. 1 drug dealer in Pasco County,” to 22 years in prison.
Tampa badly needs a new courthouse. The chief judge wants to build one.

1 week ago | tampabay.com | Dan Sullivan

TAMPA — When the water came back on after Hurricane Helene, it surged so hard against the iron pipework in the Hillsborough Courthouse Annex that a sink inside a jury restroom blew right off the wall. Judges and court staff returned to find water 6 inches deep in one second-floor courtroom and stained ceilings and drenched walls on the floor below. Repairs to the aged building would involve pulling up outdated floor tiles and replacing obsolete plumbing parts.
Greg Kehoe outlines priorities as Tampa Bay’s new US attorney

1 week ago | tampabay.com | Dan Sullivan

TAMPA — Greg Kehoe has prosecuted outlaw bikers, spies and war criminals. He’s defended cops and lawyers who’ve gotten in trouble and crafted a reputation as a pugnacious advocate for often high-profile clients in high-stakes cases. In March, he became the U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Florida, a 35-county swath stretching from Jacksonville to Naples.
Judge scolds Tim Burke’s lawyer after AI produces error-filled court motion

2 weeks ago | tampabay.com | Dan Sullivan

TAMPA — The federal case of Tampa media figure Tim Burke — a dispute that mixes topics like Fox News, the American media and complex questions of free speech — took another all-too-modern turn this week, courtesy of artificial intelligence. One of Burke’s lawyers relied on AI tools, including ChatGPT, to help research and write their latest motion to dismiss some of the charges against him. The result was a legal memo full of errors, nonexistent quotes and misstatements of law.
Judge scolds Tim Burke’s lawyer after AI produces error-filled court motion

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Dan Sullivan

TAMPA — The federal case of Tampa media figure Tim Burke — a dispute that mixes topics like Fox News, the American media and complex questions of free speech — took another all-too-modern turn this week, courtesy of artificial intelligence. One of Burke’s lawyers relied on AI tools, including ChatGPT, to help research and write their latest motion to dismiss some of the charges against him. The result was a legal memo full of errors, nonexistent quotes and misstatements of law.
Tampa federal prosecutors drop sex trafficking case against exonerated man

2 weeks ago | tampabay.com | Dan Sullivan

TAMPA — When Jimmie Gardner was arrested 18 months ago on human trafficking allegations, Tampa authorities were quick to tout his past wrongful imprisonment and his relationship to a Democratic politician. Police and prosecutors accused Gardner, 58, of offering to pay a 16-year-old girl for sex, then choking her when she resisted his advances. News of his arrest became a minor political sensation. It also caught the attention of federal prosecutors, who quickly scooped up the case.
Hillsborough Judge Nancy Jacobs to resign after panel recommends removal

3 weeks ago | tampabay.com | Dan Sullivan

TAMPA — Hillsborough Circuit Judge Nancy Jacobs will resign from the bench at the end of May, she announced Friday, weeks after a state disciplinary panel recommended she be removed from office. The panel of the Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission found that Jacobs violated judicial canons — ethical rules that govern the conduct of judges and those running for the bench — in her bitterly contested 2022 campaign against Judge Jared Smith.
Florida executes Glen Rogers for 1995 murder

3 weeks ago | gazettextra.com | Dan Sullivan

STARKE, Fla. - Glen Rogers, who almost 30 years ago stabbed a woman to death in a Tampa motel room, died Thursday evening as chemicals coursed through his veins. Rogers was executed by lethal injection at Florida State Prison for the 1995 murder of Tina Marie Cribbs, a mother of two who'd met him in a Gibsonton bar. It was one of several killings Rogers, known as the "Casanova Killer" and the "Cross-Country Killer," is suspected to have committed throughout the nation.
Florida executes Glen Rogers for 1995 murder

3 weeks ago | thebrunswicknews.com | Dan Sullivan

STARKE, Fla. - Glen Rogers, who almost 30 years ago stabbed a woman to death in a Tampa motel room, died Thursday evening as chemicals coursed through his veins. Rogers was executed by lethal injection at Florida State Prison for the 1995 murder of Tina Marie Cribbs, a mother of two who'd met him in a Gibsonton bar. It was one of several killings Rogers, known as the "Casanova Killer" and the "Cross-Country Killer," is suspected to have committed throughout the nation.