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July 27, 2020 By: Staff Report JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return of an indictment charging Richard Earl Jenkins, Jr. (43, Jacksonville) with three counts of production of child pornography. If convicted, Jenkins faces a minimum mandatory term of…
Read More Jacksonville Man Indicted For Production Of Child Pornography
July 27, 2020 By: Staff Report FROSTPROOF, Fla- Sheriff Grady Judd announced that three suspects were arrested in the Lake Streety Rd Massacre that happened last Friday. Tony Wiggins From Frostproof 26 – Guman, 3-Counts of First-Degree Murder William (Robert) Wiggins From Frostproof 21- 3-Counts…
Read More ‘He Needs to Be Executed’ Sheriff Judd on Gunman Tony Wiggins
July 27, 2020 By: Drew Kesse and Brian Burns ORLANDO, Fla. – The Free Press has been posting cold case files in the Tampa Bay area over the last couple of months, and trying to help keep these missing people and people that were lost…
Read More Cold Case: Help Bring Missing Jennifer Kesse Home
July 27, 2020 By: Staff Report NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – The FBI is requesting the public’s help in locating LaShawn Robertson who is wanted on federal drug trafficking and firearms charges. On July 8, 2020, a federal arrest warrant was issued for Robertson in the…
Read More FBI Requests the Public’s Help to Find a Federal Fugitive
July 27. 2020 By: Staff Report, PR PCSO LAKELAND, Fla.- Polk County Sheriff Homicide Detectives arrested 29-year-old Robert Patrick Gibson of Lakeland for the fatal hit and run of a pedestrian on Combee Road in Lakeland on July 21st, 2020. Gibson was arrested and transported…
Read More Fatal Polk County Hit and Run, Suspect Arrested
July 26, 2020 By: Staff Report, HCSO PR TAMPA, Fla. – A Hillsborough County man has been arrested after he made online threats to shoot protestors. Saturday, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office received information from the Polk County Sheriff’s Office that Alex Bancroft, 30, from…
Read More ‘That’s Right. I Killed African Children’ Man Threatens To Kill Protesters
July 26, 2020 By: Staff, FBI PR PHOENIX, AZ. – Jill Marie Jones, 35-years-old, from Chandler Arizona, was arrested for attempting to provide material support to al Qaeda, a designated foreign terrorist organization. John C. Demers, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, Michael Bailey, the…
Read More ‘Rifles That Would be Used by al Qaeda to Kill American Soldiers’ Woman Arrested
July 26, 2020 By: Staff Report LARGO, Fla. – Christopher Michael Zdrodowski, a 42-year-old man from Largo, was charged with manslaughter after a woman was found dead from a gunshot wound in Largo Saturday night. According to reports, the shooting happened at the Ranchero Village…
Read More Largo Man Shoots and Kills Woman Saturday Night
July 25, 2020 By: Staff Report LAND O’ LAKES, Fl.- Pasco County Sheriff Deputies, arrested 25-year-old, Michael Lumpkin, from Land O’ Lakes on Friday. Lumpkin, 25, is being held on a $50,000 total bond in Pasco County Jail tonight. Charged with 10-counts of Possess/Control/View Materials…
Read More 10 Counts of Child Porn, Land O’ Lakes Man Jailed
July 25, 2020 By: LEO Round Table, Chip DeBlock DELTA TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Discussed today are Georgia detectives calling the coroner after mistaking a sex doll for a dead body. Also, from Delta Township Michigan, an officer-involved shooting from an Eaton County Sheriff’s Office Deputy…
Read More Sheriff Deputy Attacked with Knife on Video, Shoots Suspect