Mother and daughter curio shop owners were arrested this month for allegedly selling human remains on Facebook Marketplace. The Orange City Police Department said it had been investigating Kymberlee Schopper, 52, and Ashley Lelesi, 32, and their business, Wicked Wonderland, since receiving a tip in December 2023. A charging affidavit said that the tip indicated …
Florida authorities are looking for “person of interest” after finding a woman dead in a Port St. Lucie hotel room Monday morning. Lt. Andrew Bolonka said the victim had been identified, but officials were withholding the name pending notification of next of kin. The woman was found just after 11 a.m. by cleaning staff, Bolonka …
A Florida man was arrested earlier this month he pointed a gun at another bar patron when karaoke night went awry. Aaron Jablonski, 34, is a convicted felon and therefore barred from even having a gun, but that apparently didn’t stop him. He’s charged with aggravated assault and being a felon in possession of a …
Florida authorities say an 80-year-old man killed another man and woman and then himself at a retirement community in Pompano Beach. The Broward County Sheriff’s Office said they were called for a welfare check on Wednesday night in the Leisureville community and found two vehicles in the driveway and a mailbox overflowing with mail. They …
A Florida court this week found the wife of a prominent doctor responsible for his murder a decade ago and ordered her to pay his children $200 million. Rebecca Schwartz, 64, was never charged with kidney specialist Dr. Steven Schwartz’s murder after he was found dead with two gunshot wounds in his Tarpon Springs mansion …
Police on Florida’s northeast coast arrested a man on Sunday after they found his 2-year-old son wandering around in the middle of a street in pajamas and “a heavily soiled diaper.” Deputies responded to multiple 911 calls about the child, including some who reported the toddler in the front yard of a home, the Flagler …
An allegedly drunk driver was arrested Monday night after he was accused to ramming his Jaguar into a retired sheriff’s deputy who was picking debris up from the roadway. Former Polk County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Dan Cooley, 69, stopped and turned on his hazard lights after a tote fell off his vehicle into the center …
An 18-year-old Florida man has been arrested after he allegedly taunted a victim walking on a Fort Myers beach with racial slurs and then bit off his ear in a fight. According to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, the victim, who was not identified in any way, was walking with friends on the beach late …
A Florida woman and her boyfriend were arrested earlier this month in a child abuse case that began when the woman brought her toddler daughter to the hospital with multiple injuries, including broken bones and bite marks in various stages of healing. Jordan Moore, 28, is charged with child neglect causing great bodily harm, while …
A Florida man was charged with attempted murder Friday night after he fired a shot at his ex-wife and reportedly told her he’d “kill you if I could get away with it.” The Hernando County Sheriff’s Office says it was called to the scene in Spring Hill at about 9:15 p.m. and met with the …
A Florida man has been charged with first degree murder after he forced a car he was chasing into a crash that killed the vehicle’s passenger. Kyle Hill thought he was chasing a car carrying his ex-girlfriend when he “aggressively” chased and harassed the vehicle for several blocks Sunday night, eventually forcing the car off …
Police say they’ve found a bicycle belonging to a missing Florida teenager, prompting an “intensive search” of the nearby Weedon Island Preserve area. Allister Nasr, 17, was reported missing on March 1, and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement issued a missing child alert nearly a week later, WTSP reports. Nasr is describe as 5 …
