SARASOTA, Fla. – An arrest by Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office in a January 2022 rape culminated with a conviction and life sentence for a Sarasota man. According to deputies, on March 30, Frank Szakacs, 63, was found guilty of Burglary of Conveyance with Battery, Battery,…
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Florida Man In A ‘Volunteer’ Shirt Wanted For Stealing Beer, Laundry Detergent From Family Dollar
Detectives In Florida are looking for a suspect after he walked into a Family Dollar location and hurried out the door with beer and laundry detergent. Investigators say the heist happened at the Family Dollar Store at 4285 Kathleen Road in Lakeland, Florida. According to…
Read More Florida Man In A ‘Volunteer’ Shirt Wanted For Stealing Beer, Laundry Detergent From Family DollarFlorida Teen Arrested For Animal Cruelty After Viciously Beating His Dog
A 17-year-old in Florida has been charged with aggravated animal cruelty following an incident caught on a security camera in the neighborhood. Deputies in Volusia County arrested the Deltona teenager on the felony charge on Monday after being notified of the case by Deltona Animal…
Read More Florida Teen Arrested For Animal Cruelty After Viciously Beating His DogFlorida Man Arrested Trafficking Fentanyl He Kept In Pringles Cans
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office has arrested 25-year-old Joaun Wright for the armed trafficking of fentanyl. Through investigative means, Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office Opioid Overdose Investigations (OOI) Section became aware of Wright’s activity as they followed up on non-fatal overdoses in the area. “During this…
Read More Florida Man Arrested Trafficking Fentanyl He Kept In Pringles CansFlorida AG Moody Takes Action Against Antifa And Jane’s Revenge Members
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody is taking legal action against Antifa and Jane’s Revenge activists who vandalized Florida crisis pregnancy centers. In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s leaked decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, pro-abortion extremists from these criminal organizations sought to…
Read More Florida AG Moody Takes Action Against Antifa And Jane’s Revenge MembersFlorida School Bus Driver Arrested After Kissing, Touching 10-Year-Old Student
A Florida school bus driver has been arrested after an investigation determined he inappropriately touched a student on his school bus. Collier County Sheriff’s Office detectives have arrested 57-year-old Tomas Andre Cabrera of Naples. Cabrera, 57, is charged with lewd and lascivious molestation. In the…
Read More Florida School Bus Driver Arrested After Kissing, Touching 10-Year-Old StudentNew Mexico Woman Charged With Smuggling Migrants Into Florida
A woman from New Mexico was arrested in Florida for human smuggling over the weekend and is facing multiple additional charges related to drugs, according to investigators. 56-year-old Brenda Boaz of New Mexico is behind bars and two illegal migrants have been turned over to…
Read More New Mexico Woman Charged With Smuggling Migrants Into FloridaFlorida Gov. DeSantis Signs Death Warrant For Darryl Barwick Who Stabbed Woman 37 Times
In what could be Florida’s third execution in less than three months, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed a death warrant for a man convicted of murdering a Bay County woman in 1986. Darryl Barwick, now 56, is scheduled to be executed on May 3…
Read More Florida Gov. DeSantis Signs Death Warrant For Darryl Barwick Who Stabbed Woman 37 TimesTampa Man Charged In Salvation Army Rehab Center Payroll, Tax Scheme
TAMPA, Fla. – Kenneth Fowler of Tampa has been charged with three counts of making and filing false federal income tax returns while he was employed at Salvation Army Suncoast Adult Rehabilitation Center in St. Petersburg. If convicted, Fowler faces a maximum penalty of three…
Read More Tampa Man Charged In Salvation Army Rehab Center Payroll, Tax SchemeCollege Student Charged With Threatening To Kill A Member Of Congress “We Will Kill You”
A man attending Keene State College has been charged for calling the office of a United States House of Representatives member and threatening to kill the Congressman. Allan Poller, 23, was charged with transmitting in interstate commerce a threat to injure the person of another.…
Read More College Student Charged With Threatening To Kill A Member Of Congress “We Will Kill You”