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He was elected as the sheriff of Polk County in 2004, and re-elected in 2008, 2012, and 2016. [8] In the 2020 election campaign, Judd ran unopposed. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Judd served as an adjunct professor at the University of South Florida and Florida Southern College .
Over the four months she was in Polk County Jail, the department had to pay $200,000 for her medical care. The county’s budget for medical care for inmates is $700,000, and Garton said that may ...
Polk County (/ p oʊ k /) is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of Florida. The county population was 725,046, as of the 2020 census, and estimated to be 818,330, as of July 1, 2023. [1] Its county seat is Bartow, [2] and its largest city is Lakeland. Polk County comprises the Lakeland–Winter Haven metropolitan ...
The "old, old Polk County Jail," as Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd calls it, is where he started his career back in 1972 when he was just 18 years old. "When I came to work, we only had the old ...
A 53-year old man was found floating in a retention pond Sunday morning at the Chelsea Oaks subdivision in South Lakeland, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office reported. Residents called 911 about ...
Fort Meade is the oldest city in Polk County, dating its origins to 1849, when it was established along a new military road from Tampa (Fort Brooke) to Fort Pierce following the Second Seminole War. The town and road were originally sited by then-lieutenant George Meade of the Corps of Topographical Engineers , whose commander named it for him ...
Rocha was booked into the Polk County Jail at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday and was released at 1:43 p.m. after posting a surety bond, according to the statement. "What's never popular is to arrest one of ...
Melony Mincey Bell (born October 29, 1961) is an American politician who is currently a member of the Florida House of Representatives, representing the 56th District which covers the entirety of DeSoto and Hardee Counties, as well as part of Polk County.