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Crime
Man Accused Of Killing Girlfriend Indicted For 1st Degree Murder
Man Charged With DUI Manslaughter
A 29-year-old man who is accused of killing his girl- friend last month, and fled in her car, was located in an- other state. Trent Diggs was found and taken into custody by the Mexico State Police. Trent Diggs has been in- dicted by a Hillsborough County grand jury for killing his former girlfriend in her Thonotosassa home last month. Prosecutors with the Hillsborough State Attor- ney’s Office secured the in- dictment for first-degree premeditated murder last Thursday. He was returned to Tampa Monday.
Diggs had an active war- rant and was wanted for vio- lating a domestic violence injunction when investiga- tors found he returned to his former girlfriend’s home and viciously stabbed her to death on December 8 or 9, 2021. Diggs then stole her car and fled. On December 11, after a witness could not reach the victim by phone and saw blood in her home through a window, Hillsbor- ough County Sheriff’s Office
Additional investigation allowed detectives to zero-in on Diggs’s location, pin- pointing a road in New Mex- ico. Working in coordination with the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, offi- cers with the New Mexico State Police moved in, pulled Diggs over, and took him into custody. Diggs was wearing shoes with blood from the murder scene, had fresh cuts to his hand, and had the victim’s stolen purse in the car.
“This man terrorized and murdered his victim, then tried to slip away. Thanks to great collaboration across law enforcement, we can now bring him to justice and hold him accountable for the life he took and the void he has created in the lives of the victim’s family and friends,” Hillsborough State Attor- ney Andrew Warren said.
Diggs was charged with first-degree murder, armed burglary of a dwelling, grand theft of a motor vehicle, and violation of a domestic vio- lence injunction.
In Fatal Accident
TRENT DIGGS
deputies forced entry into the home and found the 30- year-old victim’s body.
Detectives tracked the victim’s Chevrolet Cruze to the southwestern United States. On December 11, just hours before the victim’s body was discovered, police in Decatur, Texas stopped Diggs for a routine traffic stop while he was driving the victim’s car; because Hills- borough deputies had not yet been called to the victim’s home and the car had not yet been reported stolen, Diggs was not apprehended.
A 39-year-old Valrico man has been arrested and charged with DUI manslaughter. The arrest took place after a traffic acci- dent left one person dead and four others injured last Sun- day morning. Four vehicles were involved in the accident.
According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the accident took place around 3:18 a.m. Michael Sean Jones was driving a pickup truck east on State Road 60 toward U. S. Highway 301 when he ran a red light, hitting the side of another pickup truck passing through the intersection.
Upon impact, Jones’ truck rotated across the inter- section and hit an SUV and a sedan that were stopped at the red light. The second pickup truck, driven by a 44-
MICHAEL SEAN JONES
year-old man from Wimauma, also spun across the road before hitting a util- ity pole.
A spokesman for the Florida Highway Patrol said the 44-year-old man was killed in the wreck. Jones, the driver of the SUV, and the two occupants of the sedan suffered minor injuries.
Jones was arrested and transported to the Hillsbor- ough County Jail.
Man Arrested For Shooting Three People
A 29-year-old man has
been arrested and charged
with shooting three people.
The shooting took place
around 4:54 p.m., December 31st.
According to the Tampa Police Department, the shooting took place in the 8200 block of N. 17th Street. The three victims were out- side when a white sedan drove by. The suspect pointed a firearm outside the window of the vehicle and fired sev- eral shots. He then fled the scene.
The gunfire injured three people. Two were trans- ported to local hospitals for treatment. All three victims are expected to survive. One
into custody and charged with two counts of aggra- vated battery great bodily harm and deadly weapon, one count of aggravated bat- tery with a deadly weapon, possession of a firearm, and one count of felon in posses- sion of a firearm.
The investigation is ongo- ing.
CHARLES SPIGNER
of the victims told police that the suspect had shot him in the past following social media threats.
The investigation led po- lice to Charles Spigner as the shooter. He was taken
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