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A 47-year-old sheriff deputy has been charged with one count of using a minor child to produce sexually explicit images, two counts of attempting to use a minor child to produce sexually explicit images, and one count of attempted online enticement of a minor to…
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A Florida mother has been arrested on multiple charges after her 2-year-old son shot and killed his father, according to Orange County Sheriff’s Office. On May 26, 2022, deputies responded to a call of a man shot and found 26-year-old Reggie Maybry suffering from a…
Read More Florida Mom Charged After 2-Year-Old Shoots And Kills His Father
Thomas Joe Obregon, a/k/a Tommy Gun, 47, of Okaloosa County, Florida, was sentenced to seventeen and half years in federal prison after pleading guilty to two counts of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug…
Read More Florida Man “Tommy Gun” Gets 17.5 Years In Federal Prison For Drug Trafficking, Firearms
SARASOTA, Fla. – William Devonshire, 52, a suspect in two homicides in the City of Sarasota from earlier this year, died over the weekend at the Sarasota County Jail. The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office said on May 17, 2022, Devonshire was taken to Sarasota Memorial…
Read More Sarasota Tamiami Trail Murder Suspect Dies In Jail, Police Close Both Homicide Cases
FBI agents recently arrested a Florida man for threatening to kill Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, news reports say. Matthew Lee Comiskey of Palm Beach County was arrested following a federal grand jury indictment on five counts of transmitting an interstate threat to injure…
Read More Florida Man Arrested For Threatening To Kill GOP Rep. Boebert
A 35-year-old Florida man is behind bars after deputies say the man was drunk and stabbed multiple people at a bar early Saturday morning. According to the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office, around 2 am on Saturday, deputies responded to a call for a bar fight…
Read More Drunk Florida Man Stabs Three People With Pocket Knife At Bar
An accused drug dealer was arrested after the suspect led authorities on a chase along US 1 and Indian River Boulevard early Friday morning. According to the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office, the suspect, later identified as Willie Robinson, fled in a vehicle when the…
Read More Accused Florida Drug Dealer Arrested After Deputies Use PIT To Stop Fleeing SUV
A homeless man armed with a machete slashed another individual in an unprovoked attack near a pavilion at the Boardwalk on Okaloosa Island shortly after 8 am on Friday morning. Deputies responding to multiple 911 calls arrived on the scene quickly. The suspect then ignored…
Read More Homeless Man Attacks Georgia Tourist With Machete At Florida Beach
POLK COUNTY, Fla. – An active shooter situation ended with a gunman shot and killed by deputies on Friday in Lakeland. 56-year-old Michael Alan Loman of 3925 Combee Road, North, Lakeland, was shot and killed by Polk County Sheriff’s Office deputies after he refused to…
Read More Lakeland Man Killed By Deputies, Sheriff Says “Not Holding A Conversation” With Active Shooter
As a national debate rages over gun laws after last month’s mass shooting at a Texas elementary school, proponents of “red-flag” policies point to a Florida law as a model for states seeking to strip deadly weapons from people who could cause harm. The Florida…
Read More Florida ‘Red-Flag’ Law Eyed Amid Gun Debate