A Florida jury on Wednesday found a former paramedic guilty of sexually battering an unconscious woman in the back of his ambulance as she was being transported to the hospital in 2021. The jury deliberated for five hours before returning the guilty verdict for James Melady, 38, but they acquitted him on a charge of …
A Florida judge sentenced a man to life in prison on Wednesday for the brutal murder of a woman he met on a dating app because she wasn’t “following his relationship rules.” Daniel Stearns, 35, was convicted in October, WESH reported. Stearns was arrested in March 2023 after police followed him to an undeveloped Palm …
A Florida man reported his girlfriend missing in October, even musing to a friend that immigration agents might have taken her. But authorities have now charged Saul Garcia Gonzalez with the murder in the death of 37-year-old Nerida Martel, whose body was found on October 11 in a canal near the home she shared with …
A Florida jury on Friday found a Ukrainian man orphaned as a young boy guilty of first degree murder in the stabbing deaths of the couple who adopted him when he was 14. A judge sentenced Dima Tower to life in prison for the 2023 murders of Robbie and Jennifer Tower, WWSB reported. Tower, 24, …
A Florida man jumped from his moving vehicle Monday when he realized his daughter had called 911 because he was fighting with her mother. The child told dispatchers the family was traveling on Highway 79 in Washington County and gave them a description of the vehicle before the call was disconnected, WTVT reported. The girl …
A Florida couple has been arrested and charged in a botched murder-suicide last week involving their adult son who has developmental disabilities. Barbara Bates, 59 was charged with two counts of attempted murder and one count of aggravated abuse of a disabled adult, according to a probable cause statement. Her husband, 64-year-old Neil Bates, was …
Florida prosecutors have dropped charges against a family of four accused of abusing their nine adopted and foster children after determining that the family was just doing to best it could under difficult circumstances. Brian Griffeth, 47, Jill Griffeth, 41, and their two biological children — 21-year-old Dallin Griffeth and 19-year-old Liberty Griffeth — have …
A Florida woman has been charged with false imprisonment of a young child and burglary after she allegedly tried to kidnap a 5-year-old boy from his grandmother’s vehicle. An immigration hold was also placed on Ivanna Nobile, 38, Broward County jail records show. According to WPLG, the grandmother told police she had stopped her SUV …
A Florida woman is in jail, charged with stabbing her teen sister about 10 times after the girl tried to stop her from looking through her phone. The Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office says the incident took place mid-afternoon on Sunday in Cutler Bay, WPLG reports. An arrest report says the 15-year-old victim woke up from a …
A Florida woman has been charged with neglect of an elderly or disabled adult and battery on a person 65 or older after her children accused her of mistreating their 77-year-old grandmother with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. An arrest affidavit says that Janet Edwards, 49, admitted that she saw her elderly mother eating feces from …
A 17-year-old Florida boy who falsely claimed he was kidnapped by four Hispanic men last month and then shot himself in the leg “to continue the ruse” has pleaded no contest to multiple charges against him. Prosecutors charged Caden Speight as a juvenile with presenting false evidence, shooting into a conveyance, making a false report …
A Florida child rape victim who was forced to retract her initial accusations and write letters apologizing to her rapist and investigators has filed a lawsuit against those investigators and the man who raped her. The rapist — Henry Cadle, the victim’s uncle and adoptive father — later pleaded no contest to sexual battery and …
