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Search Intensifies For Child Rapist Who Fled Florida, May Be In Texas Trying To Reenter Mexico
37-year-old Jesus Tamanis-Peralta
The manhunt is intensifying for 37-year-old Jesus Tamanis-Peralta, a suspect accused of sexually battering a chi [...]
Florida Defends Prison Conditions In Heat-Related Suit, Citing “No Mandate For Comfortable Prisons”
Jail Cell, TFP File Photo
Florida corrections officials are seeking to dismiss a potential class-action lawsuit alleging unconstitutional conditio [...]
Mississippi Man Who Counterfeited Cash While Traveling From Tennessee To Florida Sentenced
View Of Hallway From Jail Cell (File)
Bryan Lyndell Chapman, a 27-year-old from Mississippi, has been sentenced to three years and ten months in f [...]
Sarasota Man Pleads Guilty To Attempted Enticement Of A Lee County Minor For Sex
Handcuffs, TFP File Photo
LEE COUNTY, Fla. - Javier Chavez, 34, of Sarasota, pleaded guilty today in federal court to charges of attempted enticem [...]
South African Migrant On Terror Watch List Arrested In Brooklyn After Texas Border Release
South African Migrant On Terror Watch List Arrested In Brooklyn After Texas Border Release
A South African national and suspected terrorist has be [...]
Loose Cargo Leads To Foot Chase, Trio Of Arrests Near Lake Hamilton In Polk County
Trio Arrested After Traffic Stop Leads To Drug And Theft Charges In Polk County
POLK COUNTY, Fla. - A routine traffic stop on Tuesday turned into [...]
Illegal Venezuelan Migrant Sets Texas House On Fire With 3 Children Inside
Venezuelan Illegal Migrant Sets House On Fire With 3 Children Inside
A Venezuelan migrant, 46-year-old Pedro Luis Parra Pulgar, has been charged w [...]
Florida AG Moody Announces Criminal Charges Against Would-Be Trump Assassin Ryan Routh
Florida AG Moody Announces Criminal Charges Against Would-Be Trump Assassin Ryan Routh
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody announced criminal ch [...]
Pasco Sheriff’s Office Investigates Apparent Suicide In New Port Richey
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NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. - Deputies from the Pasco Sheriff’s Office are conducting a death investigation in th [...]
Florida Woman Sentenced To 8 Years For Drug Trafficking, Money Laundering
Prison Yard, TFP File Photo
U.S. District Judge Harvey Schlesinger has sentenced Yaquasia Delcarmen, 28, of Jacksonville, to eight years in federa [...]