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Steven Hall Violence has surged in the U.S. but experts are split about what is truly causing it. “This can occur because as people view government (including police) as less legitimate, they are less likely to obey the law,” Ernesto Lopez, a research specialist at…
Read More Rise In Violence: It’s Much Bigger Than Police
U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis has sentenced Paublo “Chandito” Rondon Quinones, 30, Jacksonville, to 10 years and 1 month in federal prison for conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute and to distribute five or more kilograms of cocaine. Quinones had pleaded guilty…
Read More Jacksonville Man Sentenced To More Than 10 Years, Leading Cocaine Trafficking Conspiracy
Harry Whitehead Derek Chauvin has reportedly closed in on a potential plea deal with federal prosecutors, multiple anonymous sources told a local CBS affiliate Monday. Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer, was sentenced Friday to 22.5 years in prison for the murder of George Floyd. Chauvin faces…
Read More REPORT: Prison Sentencing For Derek Chauvin May Not Be Done Yet
SPRING HILL, FL. – Three people have been arrested after the execution of a search warrant in Spring Hill. Early Friday morning (6/25), the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office Vice and Narcotics Unit executed a search warrant at 3529 Orion Road in Spring Hill. An investigation…
Read More Spring Hill Vice And Narcotics Search Warrant Leads To Three Arrests
PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. – On Tuesday, Pinellas County Sheriff Gualtieri and St. Petersburg Police Chief Holloway held a press conference to provide an update and release body-worn camera and dash-camera video from the St. Petersburg Police Department officer-involved shooting that occurred on June 26, 2021.…
Read More Watch: Florida Officer-Involved Shooting Body And Dash Cam Released
Two 15-year-old males from Northeast, Washington, D.C., have been charged with auto theft and kidnapping-related offenses for the June 16 theft of a vehicle that occurred at a gas station in downtown Silver Spring. The vehicle owner’s two-year-old daughter was in the backseat of…
Read More Two Teens Charged In Stealing Car With Toddler Inside
Thomas Catenacci Violent crime is surging in Chicago because too many criminals are being set free by the court system, the head of the city’s police department said Monday. Chicago Police Department Superintendent David Brown said during a press conference Monday afternoon that convicted criminals…
Read More Chicago Police Chief Blames Criminals Being Released, Illegal Guns For Increasing Violent Crime
POLK COUNTY, Fla. – Five teenaged suspects (ages 15-18) from St. Petersburg, all of whom who have criminal histories, were apprehended by the Polk County Sheriff’s Office minutes after stealing a Glock 9mm handgun from a vehicle in Davenport on Friday, June 25, 2021. The…
Read More “Kid Gloves” Five Florida Teens Arrested In Polk County Stealing Gun While In A Stolen Truck
The U.S. Marshals are offering a $5,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest of a Florida man who is wanted by the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office for an ambush-style homicide in January 2020. Abdul Karim Robinson, 26, was charged with homicide in September 2020 for his…
Read More U.S. Marshals Offer $5,000 Reward For Florida Man, Accused Killer
Police arrested a man Friday morning suspected in a shooting that injured one man and nearly hit two children in the Bronx, New York, according to ABC 7. Detectives were looking for 27-year-old Michael Lopez after he allegedly fired three shots at a victim and almost hit…
Read More Suspect Arrested In Shooting That Nearly Gunned Down Two Children