Adam Walser I-Team

07/23/2025

https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local-news/i-team-investigates/i-would-rather-live-under-a-bridge-than-under-an-hoa-viewers-sound-off

Millions of viewers have seen stories about a Florida homeowner who went to jail and another who faced a lien on her home over minor HOA violations that escalated into court cases.

07/18/2025

https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local-news/i-team-investigates/a-slap-on-the-wrist-neighbor-opposes-pretrial-intervention-deal-for-unlicensed-landfill-operator-charged-with-felony-environmental-crime ‘A slap on the wrist’: Neighbor opposes pretrial intervention deal for unlicensed landfill operator

Maximo Sanchez received multiple warnings over three years for environmental violations, but a neighboring business owner says he failed to clean up his property.

07/14/2025

What started as complaints over HOA violations led to a woman spending a week in jail.

Her HOA cited Irena Green for having brown grass, dents in her garage, a dirty mailbox, and a cargo van. A judge gave her 30 days to rectify the situation.

06/26/2025

https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local-news/i-team-investigates/she-lives-in-heaven-now-fema-delivers-trailer-to-dead-womans-address

A FEMA trailer is delivered months after hurricanes hit Tampa Bay, dozens of miles from the hardest hit areas, to a property the I-Team has learned is registered to a dead woman.

05/15/2025

An update from a story we ran on Tuesday...

Viewers react to I-Team's story that a Florida woman d oesn't flush toilet paper because of frequent clogs in her plumbing in her new D.R. Horton home

05/13/2025

A Hillsborough County woman says she's having ongoing plumbing problems in her new construction home.

A Florida homeowner says she can't flush toilet paper because it causes her pipes to clog. She believes it's a warranty issue, but the builder says their plumbing contractor isn't to blame.

05/09/2025

A guilty plea for the man who married three Florida women in three counties

A Florida man pleaded guilty to bigamy after prosecutors say he was married to three women in three different counties at the same time.

04/29/2025

A teenager is critically injured during a K9 apprehension. Now he is suing. We obtained body camera footage of the incident which you can view if you click on the link.

Florida teen sues Hillsborough County Sheriff's office alleging civil rights violations in connection with 2023 canine apprehension in which his femoral artery was bitten.

03/25/2025

More bad news from Florida's guardianship watchdog agency...

An audit of the Office of Public and Professional Guardians shows systematic failures, including failure to develop and implement monitoring tools to make sure guardians comply with the law.

02/17/2025

An ongoing problem in a Tarpon Springs neighborhood that got considerable worse after last year's hurricanes.

A Tarpon Springs homeowner has been assessed fines approaching $75,000 for debris and other code violations in a case that started in 2023 and grew worse after back-to-back hurricanes

10/29/2024

Our series of reports continues regarding safety concerns in used cars....

The I-Team uncovered a Florida used car dealer sold a Volvo that was returned because its airbag and seatbelt systems weren't working. It was sold again to another customer without proper repairs.

10/28/2024

Election day is still 8 days away, but more than 31 percent of voters in Hillsborough County, FL have already cast ballots in mail-in and early in-person voting. About 268,000 people had voted by Monday morning. Registered Republicans cast about 5,500 more ballots than registered Democrats, but unaffiliated voters made up 22 percent of the early voting so far.