The Official Unofficial Seminole Heights Blog

From an email:
Show support for our TPD officers by attending the TPD Roll Call for Grid 52 at 7pm tonight. Corner Sligh and 12th in Seminole Heights.

From an email:
The following two suspects were arrested for the home invasion on Palifox Ave in Southeast Seminole Heights:
Delmar Hicks, B/M 1258 113th Ave East, #110. The individual has been arrested 10 times in the past 10 years. Numerous times for carrying a concealed weapon as well as delivery of cocaine and marijuana. [...]

There was an article in the paper addressing Crime Trends. Interesting snip-it below regarding Seminole Heights. Link at bottom allows you to read the entire article.
And prostitution remains prevalent on Nebraska Avenue in Old Seminole Heights, which had 165 arrests — more than in any single area of the city or county. This, despite [...]

Late Monday evening, two men broke into a home on east Palifox in SESH and ordered the occupants to the ground before stealing their 1991 Honda Accord. One of the suspects were later arrested, the second is still on the loose.
The suspected arrested has a prior criminal record of attempted first-degree murder, aggravated battery [...]

From Bay News 9
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY (Bay News 9) — Crime is down in Tampa.
According to Tampa Police Chief Jane Castor, already falling crime in Tampa dipped even more in 2009.
According to Castor, overall crime in the city of Tampa fell 15.8 percent last year.
Violent crime is down 12.7 percent, she said.
Those number are in line [...]

Emailed from Neighborhood Crime Watch Leader:
Good-afternoon and Happy Monday Neighborhood Leaders!
Chief Jane Castor would like to invite our Neighborhood Watch Coordinators/Business Watch Members & Neighborhood Presidents to the Tampa Police Department Crime Rate News Conference on February 09, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. It will take place at Tampa Police Department -Headquarters, 411 North Franklin [...]

Email from a neighbor:
I have an elderly neighbor that called the TPD non-emergency number this morning to report an issue she is having with her neighbors. They cut a tree down in the middle of the night and it is across her alley and partially in her driveway. The person she spoke [...]