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Highlands County Sheriff’s Deputies and U.S. Marshals are seeking information on a Lorida man wanted for DUI manslaughter in connection with a 2017 crash who may have returned to the area after fleeing to avoid his imminent arrest. At around 3:30 a.m. on the morning of June 24, 2017, the car that Samuel Joseph Tucker was driving crashed, seriously injuring Tucker and killing his 22-year-old passenger, Alyssa Kay Vice.

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2018

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SEBRING -- Highlands County Sheriff’s Office detectives got a three-for-one special Monday, July 2 in Sebring when they went to arrest one man and ended up taking his two friends to jail, also. The investigation began with a tip that 57-year-old Eugene Lee Holloway of Lake Placid was doing contractor work without a license. A detective made contact with Holloway posing as a potential customer and arranged a meeting Monday afternoon. Holloway Holloway arrived riding shotgun in a black Lincoln

July

2018

27

SEBRING -- The legacy of Highlands County Sheriff’s Office Deputy William Gentry will continue to live on in a way that will help save lives. In the week following Deputy Gentry’s line of duty death on May 7, Highlands County Sheriff’s Office Detective Steven Ritenour called Tax Collector Eric Zwayer with an idea: since Deputy Gentry was an organ donor -- a fact that led to at least five lives being saved following his death -- why not waive the fee for anyone who wanted to add an organ donor

June

2018

27

SEBRING -- Judge Peter Estrada on Wednesday, June 27, sentenced 51-year-old Richard Conway Strickland III to spend the rest of his life in prison for the brutal murder of his roommate last year in Sebring. Strickland was found sitting outside the Barnum Street home he shared with 51-year-old Shirley Anne Temple covered from head to toe in blood when the first deputy arrived following the report of the crime the night of May 16, 2017. Inside the home, deputies found Temple’s body. She had been

June

2018

25

AVON PARK -- A Sebring man is in jail charged with wounding two people in a drive-by shooting in Avon Park Monday, June 25. Detectives were already busy investigating an unrelated shooting that happened Thursday at Maryland Fried Chicken in Avon Park that left one man injured when calls began to come in about Monday’s incident. Deputies responded to the 200 block of Tulane Drive in Avon Park after Monday's shooting was reported at 2:10 p.m. The victims, one 15 and the other 22, were both

June

2018