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A grand jury in Florida this week indicted three minors, including a 12-year-old, in the murders of three teenagers last month. Prosecutors in Marion County, charged the defendants — ages 12, 16 and 17 — with first-degree murder with a firearm, as well as robbery…
Read More Three Florida Minors, Including 12-Year-Old, Indicted And Charged As Adults In Slaying Of 3 Teens
A Florida man, found guilty of multiple counts of child pornography, has been sentenced to twenty years in the Florida Department of Corrections. In June of 2021, the Walton County Sheriff’s Office Cyber Crimes Unit executed a search warrant at a home on Shore Line…
Read More Florida Man Gets 20 Years In Prison For Multiple Counts Of Child Porn
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – A St. Petersburg man was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for armed robbery, using and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, conspiring to distribute cocaine and cocaine base, possessing a firearm as a convicted felon,…
Read More St. Petersburg Man Gets 25 Years In Dry Cleaner Armed Robbery, Murder At Nightclub
HERNANDO COUNTY, Fla. – A teen in Delaware has been charged after making a threat to shoot up a school in Hernando County, Florida. The student said at 8:48 p.m. and then again at 8:49 p.m., he received two phone calls on his cell phone…
Read More Delaware Teen Charged Threatening To ‘Shoot Up’ Hernando County, Florida School
BROOKSVILLE, Fla. – A Brooksville man was arrested for child abuse, false imprisonment, and possession of an incendiary device after driving wildly and being stopped by deputies. According to Hernando County Sheriff’s Office, on Tuesday, just before 8:30 p.m., Hernando County Sheriff’s Deputies E. Miller…
Read More Brooksville Man Arrested For Child Abuse And Making Explosive Device
A grand jury indicted Bryan Kohberger on Wednesday in the murder case of four University of Idaho students in November 2022. Kohberger was indicted by the jury “for all five charges,” including first-degree murder and burglary charges, according to the district court. According to ABC…
Read More Grand Jury Indicts Bryan Kohberger Accused Of Killing Of Four Idaho College Students
A 38-year-old Florida man was arrested Monday near the Tradewinds Plaza Publix in Key Largo following the theft of a large amount of meat, beer, and other items. The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office found Roberto Jesus Machado of Miami in possession of the items near…
Read More Florida Man Arrested Near Bus Stop After Stealing Beer, Meats From Publix
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Today, St. Petersburg detectives arrested Joshua McCarty-Thomas, 46, for stealing rare books and rare reptiles. Detectives are currently serving a search warrant on McCarty-Thomas’ home at 2435 10th St. S., St. Petersburg, and found two rare tortoises. One was alive in…
Read More Florida Man Arrested After Stolen Galapagos Tortoise Found In His Freezer
A Florida man has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for distributing fentanyl resulting in death. A federal jury found Jermaine Lamar Harvard, 41, Eustis, guilty on February 23, 2023. According to testimony and evidence presented at trial, Harvard distributed fentanyl to the…
Read More Florida Fentanyl Dealer Gets 30 Years In Deadly Overdose
SARASOTA, Fla. – Phillip Roy Wasserman, 66, Sarasota, Florida, has been convicted with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and mail fraud and substantive counts of wire fraud and mail fraud. Wasserman faces a maximum penalty of 20 years’ imprisonment on each of the conspiracy, mail…
Read More Florida Insurance Agent Convicted After Duping Elderly Investors Out Of $6.3 Million