Hernando deputies increase activity on Tropical Drive amid active investigation
Deputies stepped up activity on Tropical Drive in Weeki Wachee Gardens and told residents to avoid the area as an active investigation unfolded.
Hernando County sheriff’s deputies increased activity on Tropical Drive in Weeki Wachee Gardens as part of an active investigation, and residents were told to avoid the area. The sheriff’s office did not release additional details about what prompted the response, leaving neighbors with only the warning to stay clear.
Tropical Drive sits in a part of Weeki Wachee where law enforcement activity tends to draw quick attention because the area mixes residential streets with one of Hernando County’s best-known attractions, Weeki Wachee Springs State Park. That park is famous for its mermaid shows, which bring visitors into the area and make police activity on nearby roads harder to ignore.
The latest response comes against a backdrop of several high-profile sheriff’s office cases in Weeki Wachee. On Sept. 18, 2023, detectives said they had located Shauna Urive in Pasco County and arrested her on a second-degree murder charge in a suspicious death investigation. In that same update, the sheriff’s office said Urive confessed to killing the victim during an interview with detectives, and the investigation was still continuing.
In another Weeki Wachee case, the sheriff’s office said on June 10, 2024, that Gabrielle Bohn had pleaded guilty four days earlier to manslaughter by culpable negligence in a shooting death case. Bohn received a 15-year sentence in the Florida Department of Corrections, followed by 10 years of probation.
The area also saw a drug-related death investigation tied to Bob Cat Drive. On Dec. 26, 2024, the sheriff’s office said deputies and Hernando County Fire Rescue responded at about 6 a.m. on March 31, 2024, to a residence on Bob Cat Drive, where Robert Bolduc was found unresponsive on the front porch and pronounced dead at the scene.
Weeki Wachee has remained a focus for other enforcement actions as well. In January 2025, detectives arrested a Weeki Wachee High student in a child pornography investigation, and in April 2025, Jose Gonzalez-Cruz was ordered to relinquish the remaining dogs after 30 were removed from a property in an animal cruelty case.
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