Inside Poinciana Florida

A team of assessors from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc. (CALEA), Public Safety Communications Accreditation (PSCA) program will visit the Polk County Sheriff’s Office in December to examine all aspects of Telecommunication policy and procedures, management, operations, and other support services, Sheriff Grady Judd announced today.
Verification by the team that the [...]

The Polk County Sheriff’s K-9 Unit is hosting the second annual Matt & DiOGi Memorial golf tournament on Saturday, December 8, 2007, at Bridgewater Golf & Country Club in Lakeland. Teams will consist of 4-person best ball, with an 8:00 a.m. shotgun scramble. Last year’s tournament was so popular, an afternoon tee time was necessary [...]

Polk County Sheriff’s Homicide detectives made an arrest in a homicide today for the murder of Solymarie Roman, who was killed, dumped, and burned in a remote area in Poinciana on November 1, 2007.
According to the affidavit, Mourad Balzourt strangled his live-in girlfriend Solymarie on October 31, 2007, and then set her body on fire [...]

At approximately 9:52 pm on Wednesday, November 21, 2007, Polk County Sheriff’s Office deputies received a call in reference to a shooting that had occurred in the parking lot of the Sunny’s Food Plaza, 2085 West Highland Street, Lakeland. (The plaza is on the corner of Wabash Avenue and West Highland Street.) The [...]

Polk County Sheriff’s detectives have positively identified the body found in an orange grove in Frostproof yesterday as that of 19-year-old Fernando Trejo, DOB 4/19/88, of 36 Banks Road in Frostproof. According to the autopsy and evidence found at the scene, Trejo died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.