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Dual-Wielding Machete Suspect Takes Cops Around Grocery Store, LEO Talk Show
LEO Round Table
On today’s LEO Round Table, we discuss an appeals court reversing an ex-officers conviction for the fatal shooting, a traffic stop [...]
Clearwater Woman Paid Herself $710K With 232 Checks From Her Palm Harbor Employer
Monika Hladik (PCSO)
PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. - Detectives assigned to the Economic Crimes Unit have arrested a Clearwater woman for a Scheme to Defr [...]
Michigan Prosecutor To Appeal Sentence For Man Who Violently Drowned Special Needs Child
Hunter Locke-Hughes (Macomb County Prosecutor’s Office)
A 22-year-old Michigan man was sentenced for his first-degree child abuse and involuntary [...]
Tampa Man And Woman Guilty Of Drug Trafficking Crimes While Possessing A Machine Gun
Emergency Lights (File)
TAMPA, Fla. - A Tampa man and woman have been found guilty of possession with the intent to distribute fentanyl and over 5 [...]
Honduran National Living In Florida Gets 9 Years For Immigration Fraud Scheme
Prison Yard, TFP File Photo
A Honduran national living in Florida has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison for orchestrating a massive i [...]
2 Ohio Women Charged After Driving 80-Year-Old Man’s Corpse To Bank To Get His Money
Loreen Bea Feralo and Karen Casbohm
Before delivering an 80-year-old deceased man's body to a hospital, two Ohio women are accused of driving his [...]
Teen Armed With Gardening Tool Charges Officer In Front Of Home On Video, LEO Talk Show
LEO Round Table
On today’s LEO Round Table, we discuss the Good-Faith Exception in LEO searches and seizures, a teen armed with a gardening tool c [...]
Florida Sheriff Says ‘They Shouldn’t Be Here’ After Woman Kidnapped, Raped By 3 Illegal Aliens
Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw (L) Andres Felipe Morale (Top) Darinel Ordonez Jimenez (Bottom Left) Marcos Felipe Ramirez (Bottom Right)
P [...]
Florida Model Murdered While On Facetime With 3 Friends
Kelvi Latrice McCray, an 18-year-old model (Facebook)
In a murder-suicide on Wednesday night, a Florida man shot his ex-girlfriend and then turned [...]
Florida Appeals Court Rejects Arguments By Man Who Smuggled 2 Teens From Texas Border
US Border Patrol
A state appeals court Wednesday rejected arguments by a man who pleaded no contest to charges of human smuggling after a traffic [...]