Press Releases

Third Shift Gang Member Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison
10/08/2009: TALLAHASSEE, FL – Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced a Manatee County gang member was sentenced to 30 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to racketeering and conspiracy to commit racketeering. James...

SUR 13 Gang Member and Drug Trafficker Sentenced to 35 Years for Criminal Racketeering, Conspiracy to Traffic Cocaine
09/04/2009: TALLAHASSEE, FL -- Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced an Orange County man has been sentenced to 35 years in prison and $510,000 in fines for criminal racketeering charges and drug trafficking charges...

Orange County Man Sentenced To 25 Years For Drug Trafficking
08/27/2009: TALLAHASSEE, FL – Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced an Orange County man was sentenced to 25 years in prison and $350,000 in fines for his involvement in a Central Florida narcotics trafficking enterprise....

Third Shift Gang Member Receives 60-Year Prison Sentence
08/24/2009: TALLAHASSEE, FL – Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced a Manatee County gang member was convicted late Friday night of criminal racketeering and conspiracy to commit racketeering. Ryan Simmons, a member of the...

Drug Traffickers Convicted for Criminal Racketeering, Cocaine Trafficking
08/13/2009: ~ Central Florida men were involved with separate aspects of cocaine trafficking enterprise ~ TALLAHASSEE, FL -- Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced that two men were convicted of criminal racketeering...

Third Shift Gang Member Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison
07/09/2009: TALLAHASSEE, FL – Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced a Manatee County gang member was sentenced to 25 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to criminal charges of racketeering and conspiracy to commit...

Two Third Shift Gang Members Sentenced to Prison
06/29/2009: TALLAHASSEE, FL—Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced two Manatee County gang members pled guilty to criminal charges of racketeering and conspiracy to commit racketeering. . Members of the Manatee County...

Third Shift Gang Member Sentenced to Eight Years in Prison
06/24/2009: TALLAHASSEE, FL—Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced a Manatee County gang member pled guilty to criminal charges of racketeering and conspiracy to commit racketeering and was sentenced to eight years in...

Key Members of Violent Ft. Pierce Gang Arrested
06/18/2009: TALLAHASSEE, FL – Attorney General Bill McCollum today joined State Attorney Bruce Colton, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office, and the Ft. Pierce Police Department to...

Florida Attorney General, The HSUS Ask U.S. Supreme Court to Uphold Federal Law Banning Depictions of Extreme Animal Cruelty
06/15/2009: ~ Twenty-Five states join Florida in brief to Highest Court ~ WASHINGTON, D.C. — Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum and The Humane Society of the United States, joined by nearly half of the state Attorneys General,...