Six dogs in Polk County were found inside a 107-degree home that lacked power and was covered in trash, feces and urine, ...

Sheriff Grady Judd highlights the bottleneck in Trump's immigration crackdown due to limited ICE resources and calls for ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. - An undocumented immigrant from Haiti was arrested on Friday by the Polk County Sheriff’s Office after ...

Two men were arrested Friday in Polk County after deputies discovered six dogs living in deplorable conditions.

A Haitian man, who deputies say was in the country illegally, is accused of failing to clean up an oil spill in Eagle Lake.

On Friday, May 30, 2025, deputies from the Polk County Sheriff's Office arrested two men on multiple counts of animal neglect after discovering six dogs living in deplorable conditions inside a ...

Sheriff Grady Judd says Polk County deputies shot and killed an armed man who was attacked by an alligator while swimming ...

Polk County's sheriff said the man had been acting bizarrely at a gas station, then swam through an alligator-laden lake into ...

represents the first challenger in many election cycles for Republican Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd. If re-elected, Judd, 70, who lives near Lake Buffum, would enter his sixth four-year term ...

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd says that his office is helping the Bartow Police Department investigate what they are calling a “violent death." ...

LAKELAND, Fla. - A man with an extensive history of methamphetamine-related arrests was fatally shot by Polk County Sheriff's ...

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd holds press conference on former Bartow (Florida) head football coach / Courtesy of Polk County Sheriffs Office For the last 37 years, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd ...