Patty Ryan, Tampa Bay Times

Patty Ryan

Tampa Bay Times

Tampa, FL, United States

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Past articles by Patty:

Soaring Paws founder pleads guilty to state charges, gets 10 years probation

TAMPA — In late 2015, a Tampa-based pilot solicited money to airlift two dogs he said were beaten with a baseball bat for toppling a Christmas tree.Albert Lonzo Adams III woke up to $5,000 from score → Read More

Ex-cellmate in abortion pill case tried to help victim in her quest for damages

TAMPA — Carl Morgan ran afoul of a probation officer in 2014 and landed in a Louisiana federal prison, where he met a man from Florida.The two shared a cell and conversations. About six months later, → Read More

Facebook political argument ends with Tampa man shot in buttocks

TAMPA — Two men disagreed about politics on Facebook. When things got heated, one showed up with a Glock and an AR-15 and shot the other in the thigh and buttocks, police said.Call it extreme unfrien → Read More

Facebook political argument ends with Tampa man shot in buttocks

TAMPA — Two men disagreed about politics on Facebook. When things got heated, one showed up with a Glock and an AR-15 and shot the other in the thigh and buttocks, police said.Call it extreme unfrien → Read More

Fund for New Tampa crash family hits $50K in 24 hours, friends share memories of slain man

Not long after a driver mowed down a New Tampa father and injured his two sons Sunday, those who knew the family, and even some who did not, set out to comfort a grieving widow.It happened on the cro → Read More

Fund for New Tampa crash family hits $50K in 24 hours, friends share memories of slain man

Not long after a driver mowed down a New Tampa father and injured his two sons Sunday, those who knew the family, and even some who did not, set out to comfort a grieving widow.It happened on the cro → Read More

Documents: Seminole Heights murder suspect killed, then viewed porn

Howell Donaldson III killed people and then soon after visited an adult-themed website, according to newly released investigative reports in the trial of → Read More

Documents: Seminole Heights murder suspect killed, then viewed porn

Howell Donaldson III killed people and then soon after visited an adult-themed website, according to newly released investigative reports in the trial of → Read More

First murder, then porn, reports allege of Seminole Heights killings suspect

Howell Donaldson III killed people and then soon after visited an adult-themed website, according to newly released investigative reports in the trial of → Read More

First murder, then porn, reports allege of Seminole Heights killings suspect

Howell Donaldson III killed people and then soon after visited an adult-themed website, according to newly released investigative reports in the trial of → Read More

Accusations fly in wake of boat crash that killed Pepin Academies director

TAMPA — Anti-DUI lawyer Tom Carey and beer distributor Tom Pepin are pointing fingers at each other in two federal court cases over an alcohol-related boat crash last year that killed a Tampa educato → Read More

FedEx driver, 22, dies in crash on Interstate 4

TAMPA — A 22-year-old FedEx driver died Tuesday after a tire blew out on his freight truck on Interstate 4 east of Tampa, sending it into a collision path with a Chevrolet Volt, state troopers said. → Read More

FedEx driver, 22, dies in crash on Interstate 4

TAMPA — A 22-year-old FedEx driver died Tuesday after a tire blew out on his freight truck on Interstate 4 east of Tampa, sending it into a collision path with a Chevrolet Volt, state troopers said. → Read More

FHP seizes truck with possible link to hit-run death of 13-year-old

DOVER — The Florida Highway Patrol has confiscated a Ford F-250 pickup truck believed to have struck a 13-year-old Dover boy, killing him, as he walked on the shoulder of Martin Luther King Jr. Boule → Read More

FHP seizes truck with possible link to hit-run death of 13-year-old

DOVER — The Florida Highway Patrol has confiscated a Ford F-250 pickup truck believed to have struck a 13-year-old Dover boy, killing him, as he walked on the shoulder of Martin Luther King Jr. Boule → Read More

Celebrating Cinco de Mayo? In Hillsborough, 27 cops will be watching

TAMPA — If your Cinco De Mayo is spelled Cinco De-UI, expect law enforcement to take notice this weekend.The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office on Friday disclosed plans for a DUI → Read More

Did you see who hit panhandler near Selmon and drove away?

TAMPA — A man with a history of arrests for roadside soliciting has been found dead at the side of a road. Jess Paez, 51, was identified by Tampa police Monday as the victim of an apparent hit-and-ru → Read More

Did you see who hit panhandler near Selmon and drove away?

TAMPA — A man with a history of arrests for roadside soliciting has been found dead at the side of a road. Jess Paez, 51, was identified by Tampa police Monday as the victim of an apparent hit-and-ru → Read More

‘I handled all of it,’ Soaring Paws pilot said of bank records in charity probe

TAMPA — The investigators showed up Dec. 5. They had questions for pilot Albert Lonzo Adams III but weren’t scheduled to ask them because his attorney didn’t approve an interview. Instead, they were → Read More

‘I handled all of it,’ Soaring Paws pilot said of bank records in charity probe

TAMPA — The investigators showed up Dec. 5. They had questions for pilot Albert Lonzo Adams III but weren’t scheduled to ask them because his attorney didn’t approve an interview. Instead, they were → Read More