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An Ohio man has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for solicitation of child pornography from a 9-year-old West Virginia girl. Steven Wolford, age 26, of Cadiz, Ohio, was ordered to serve 168 months in federal prison after admitting to enticing and receiving sexually…
Read More Ohio Man Sentenced After Soliciting Child Porn From 9-Year-Old West Virginia Girl On Facebook
On today’s LEO Round Table, we discuss how a man was justified by the court to refuse to answer police questioning, a cop uses a stun gun multiple times on a fleeing suspect, a suspect takes cop with him in a speeding car on video, and…
Read More Suspect Takes Cop With Him In Speeding Car On Video, LEO Round Table
A Florida woman has been sentenced to 12 months in federal prison for passing counterfeit Federal Reserve notes, aka cash. The court also ordered her to pay restitution to the victims she defrauded. On June 8, 2023, Lyndsey Rhea Markland, 41, of Panama City, pleaded…
Read More Florida Woman Sentenced To Federal Prison After Spending Counterfeit Cash
A 67-year-old Florida man was taken into custody on Thursday after making threats against the lives of deputies and their families. Walter Frank Camp was charged with DUI, grand theft of a motor vehicle, harassing a law enforcement K9, threatening an officer or officer’s family,…
Read More Florida Man Charged After Dropping His Pants, Threatening To Kill Deputies And Their Families
A Missouri man has entered a guilty plea to three federal felonies after being charged with using a pitchfork and attacking law enforcement during the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. According to the Kansas City Star, Christopher Brian Roe, 39, of…
Read More Missouri Man Who Carried Pitchfork At J6 Capitol Riot Pleads Guilty
A Pennsylvania nurse, who was previously charged with homicide and attempted murder for patients in her care, has picked up dozens of new charges in the deaths of 17 patients. The nurse allegedly administered lethal doses of insulin to numerous patients at care facilities, beginning…
Read More Serial Killer Nurse In Pennsylvania Charged With Using Insulin To Murder 17 Patients
On today’s LEO Round Table, we discuss how a Judge stops Biden from cutting border wire, Chauvin wants SCOTUS to weigh in on the case, a gunman shot by a cop through the windshield during a chase, and much more. The Tampa Free Press will publish…
Read More Gunman Shot By Cop Through The Windshield During Chase, LEO Round Table
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – St. Petersburg Police arrested 15-year-old Savion Nixon and charged him with two counts of attempted 2nd-degree murder and one count of violation of probation. On October 31st, shortly before 2 p.m., investigators say he fired approximately 20 rounds at two people…
Read More 15-Year-Old Arrested For 2nd Degree Attempted Murder After Firing 20 Rounds At 2 People
SARASOTA COUNTY, Fla. – Together with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) detained members of the Nelson Group, including Sammy David Nelson, 39, and Brittany Alexandria Nelson, 34, both of Margate; Jerome Dale Senior II, 41, of Plantation;…
Read More 5 Florida ‘Nelson Group’ Members Arrested In Sarasota County Sheriff Investigation
Four suspects in Florida are facing charges in a murder-for-hire plot that resulted in the death of a 17-year-old Hernando County girl and the serious injuries of her relative. Brooksville residents Lenard White (36), a/k/a “Len,” “Mike Williams,” and “Stick,” Sheldon Robinson (21), a/k/a “Poboy,”…
Read More 4 Charged In Florida Murder-For-Hire That Left 17-Year-Old Rape Victim Dead