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Chicago Police Overtime Costs Balloon Amid Staffing Shortages
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson
CHICAGO, Fla. - The Chicago Police Department (CPD) has already blown through its overtime budget for 2024, spending [...]
South Carolina Man Sentenced For Trafficking Fentanyl-Laced Counterfeit Pills Via U.S. Mail To Georgia
Pharmaceutical, Pills Source: TFP File Photo
South Carolina man Onesepherous L. Grissette has been sentenced to federal prison for distributing th [...]
Mississippi Woman Arrested For Cashing Stolen $15,000 Check From Florida Company
Xandria Jenkins (WCSO)
A woman from Mississippi has been arrested and charged with grand theft and passing a counterfeit check after a stolen chec [...]
Tense Standoff With Armed Suspect Ends With A SWAT Sniper On Video! LEO Talk Show
Tense Standoff With Armed Suspect Ends With A SWAT Sniper On Video! LEO Talk Show
The Tampa Free Press will publish the LEO Ro [...]
California Man Charged For Couthouse Bomb Attack That Injured 5
Handcuffs, Source: Pexels
A California man, Nathaniel James McGuire, has been charged with a bomb attack at a Santa Maria courthouse that injured [...]
Florida Financial Advisor Indicted In Mississippi For Multi-Year Tax Shelter Scheme
Cash, Arrest (File)
A federal grand jury in Mississippi has indicted a Florida financial advisor, Stephen T. Mellinger III, for allegedly operatin [...]
Florida Man Arrested On Multiple Charges Including Fentanyl Trafficking, Kidnapping
Miguel Luis Cardenas
HIGHLANDS COUNTY, Fla. - Miguel Luis Cardenas, 31, of Lake Placid, is currently in the Highlands County Jail facing a range o [...]
Lennard High School Student In Ruskin Arrested For Online Threat: Hillsborough County Sheriff
Eli James Lurvey (HCSO)
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. - The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office has arrested 14-year-old Eli James Lurvey, a student [...]
Florida Mechanic’s “Fix-It” Plan Goes South, Lands Him In Hot Water
MATTHEW ROBERT GREGORY (MCSO)
MONROE COUNTY, Fla. - A 46-year-old man from Sugarloaf Key, Florida, apparently decided that the best way to deal wi [...]
Texas Man On Trial for Starving His Son To Death
Brandon Lee Cervera (BCJ)
A Bexar County jury will decide the fate of Brandon Lee Cervera, 31, who is accused of starving his 4-year-old son Benja [...]