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Sheriff Grady Judd
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Crime Stoppers
Stolen Kubota equipment
Dec 14, 2018
Media Contact : Sherrie Morgan, PIO
Media Contact : Sherrie Morgan, PIO
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Polk County Sheriff's deputies are seeking your help in finding a stolen Kubota Mini Excavator and Kubota RTV.
The equipment was taken sometime between December 12th and December 14th from the 12000 block of U.S. Highway 98 North in Lakeland.
If anyone has any information regarding this incident, please contact Detective Scarborough at (863) 860-7731 or you can call Heartland Crime Stoppers at 1-800-226-TIPS (8477) to remain anonymous.
Visit www.heartlandcrimestoppers.com.
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Never know who you’ll run into at the 15th best Christmas light display in the country! Come see Sheriff Judd and his “elves” from 6-9 pm tonight on Shadow Wood Trail in Winter Haven 🎅🏻 you won’t regret it!!
Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree! 📷Do you have your tree yet? We’ve just received an anonymous donation of 100 fresh-cut trees, and we are giving them away this morning from our Southwest District substation in Lakeland – FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED, ONE TREE PER VEHICLE.
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This former @PolkSchoolsNews teacher literally used the phrase 'grooming' in his illicit texts with a student. He deleted a lot of his texts so his wife wouldn't see them.
Now he's in jail facing a felony charge of sexual offense by an authority figure against a student.
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