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SEBRING -- Another 18-year-old has been arrested in connection with a string of burglaries in Sebring Hills this past weekend. JimmyRay Parks was charged with being an accessory after the fact after it was learned he hid the tools Matthew John Bass Jr. stole in one of five burglaries he was charged with over the night of Aug. 12-13. Detectives learned that after Bass stole a bag containing more than $600 worth of tools from one of the vehicles he burglarized that night, he hid it inside a car

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SEBRING -- A U.S. Marshals task force has located and arrested a man wanted for an Aug. 7 attempted murder in Sebring. Frazier Lee Carpenter, 36, was found in Wauchula Wednesday, Aug. 17, by the task force, which is made up of marshals and members of the Highlands County Sheriff’s Office. He was charged with attempted murder, firing a weapon in public, improper exhibition of a firearm, aggravated stalking and possession of a weapon by a convicted felon in connection with the incident on King

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SEBRING -- An 18-year-old from Sebring has been charged with five burglaries that took place the night of Saturday-Sunday, Aug. 12-13. Matthew John Bass Jr., of 726 Triumph Drive, was charged with four counts of vehicle burglary (one while armed) and one count of burglary of a dwelling, two counts of grand theft, two counts of second-degree petit theft, one count of first-degree petit theft, three counts of credit card theft, and one count of possession of burglary tools with intent to use. A

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Highlands County Sheriff’s Office detectives are working to solve a rash of car burglaries around the county. Seven were reported on Aug. 7, there were 14 reported on Aug. 8 and three more were reported today, Aug. 9. Of the 24 car burglaries reported over the last three days, only one of them was to a car that was locked. There have been a few cases reported in the Avon Park Lakes area, but the largest concentration of the victims are in west and southeast Sebring -- the DeSoto City,

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LAKE PLACID -- A 31-year-old Cape Coral man was arrested Wednesday, Aug. 8, after rear-ending a car on State Road 70 and then stealing $37 out of the car he ran into. Deputies were called to a crash on S.R. 70 at Longleaf Avenue just before 11 a.m. They found a Hyundai Sonata that had been rear-ended by a Chevrolet pickup truck. The driver of the Hyundai was taken to the hospital, but the driver of the truck, Dustin Robert Root, refused medical treatment. While Deputy Nick Sotherlund was

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