Polk County Sheriff’s deputies now ask everyone they encounter for place of birth, not only those arrested, as had been the ...

The Polk County Sheriff’s Office is taking a new approach to assist in enforcing federal immigration laws, allowing deputies ...

Essie Ward was found unresponsive in her cell at 9:30 a.m. on April 3. But an autopsy found that she had been dead for 18-24 ...

Following an internal Polk Sheriff's investigation, four detention deputies resigned in lieu of firing and three supervisors ...

Deputy Sheriff Terra McKinnon died after a long and courageous battle against breast cancer. The sheriff's office says she succumbed to an illness that attacked whil ...

An anonymous tip led to the arrest of Austin Richardson in Polk County, charged with attempted murder and other offenses.

A Livingston man was arrested Wednesday on multiple drug and weapons charges after a 911 hang-up call led deputies to a ...

The Polk County Sheriff’s Office recovered several stolen vehicles, seized large quantities of methamphetamine and arrested ...

A woman accused of driving with a suspended license was arrested after she was pulled over for cutting off cars and violating their rights-of-way in Winter Haven.

WE ALREADY MISS HER'  The Polk County Sheriff's Office is grieving the loss of one of its own deputies who served the agency ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. - Four people were injured Monday night in a crash involving an ambulance and a pickup truck, according to ...