A 72-year-old Pensacola man was arrested Thursday morning for stabbing his ex-wife’s new husband. The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office said that Gregory Grant was charged with attempted homicide, WEAR reported. The victim, identified as Alan Bingham, told the station that Grant is homeless and has been living at the home he shares with Grant’s ex-wife. …
A Florida mother has been charged with aggravated assault after she shot her 15-year-old daughter outside a Miami McDonald’s Friday night. Melissa Valbrum claimed the shooting was accidental, WPLG reported. She said she had the gun in her waistband, but it fell and went off, with the bullet striking the teen, according to a police …
A Florida transplant was beaten to death on a golf course in Palm Beach Gardens on Monday by a man who had been reported missing by his family an hour earlier. A police report says that Brian Hiltebeitel, 65, was playing a round of golf with two other people on Monday afternoon at the Sandhill …
A Florida woman who shot and killed her neighbor in a long-running dispute over children playing was sentenced on Monday to 25 years in prison. Susan Lorincz told the court she was afraid and “never intended to kill anyone” when she fired a single shot through her closed door and killed Ajike “AJ” Owens, a …
A 12-year-old Florida girl has been charged with threatening to kill another girl during an argument over a boy. The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office said the victim’s older sister reported the threats, saying her younger sibling “had been having issues with other juvenile siblings.” The sheriff’s office said the suspect, the victim, and a third …
A former Florida high school star athlete who stabbed his ex-girlfriend 15 times, leaving her paralized, and slashed her mother as well has been sentenced to life in prison. Spencer Pearson, 20, pleaded guilty to the June 2023 attack on Madison Schemitz and her mother, Jaclyn Roge, in July, the Florida Times Union reported. Pearson’s …
A Florida woman has been arrested after she allegedly held her 14-year-old daughter’s head underwater until she died and attacked witnesses with a hammer when they tried to stop her. Osceola County Sheriff Marcos Lopez said the witnesses — another child and a roommate — called 911, reporting that they saw 35-year-old Kelsie Glover holding …
A Florida couple were arrested Tuesday morning after they attacked a school resource deputy at Deltona Middle School because they didn’t get what they wanted after a meeting with officials about a battery charge filed against their son for shoving a girl a day earlier. Jorge Rivera and Dagmarie Apointe Iturrino were upset their son …
A former employee of Florida’s Department of Children and Families has been arrested after her 13-year-old daughter was found dead, “extremely emaciated and obviously malnourished” and “covered in wounds in all stages of healing.” Highlands County Sheriff Paul Blackman said the girl was found nude except for a diaper when deputies arrived after her mother, …
A Florida mother discovered an 18-year-old man having an “inappropriate text relationship’ with her 13-year-old daughter and set up a meeting with him herself, which led to the man being shot by police. Cerry Banks was hospitalized in stable condition and charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, two counts of …
Miami Beach police said Friday that a human head that washed ashore on Key Biscayne on earlier this week belonged to a 19-year-old swimmer who disappeared off South Beach over the weekend. Victor Castaneda got caught in a rip tide and was reported missing at about 6 p.m. on Saturday, WSVN reported, prompting an extensive …
A federal grand jury has indicted a Florida man, already in jail on kidnapping charges, on charges of killing his wife in Spain. The indictment charges David Nezevich with kidnapping resulting in death, foreign domestic violence resulting in death, and foreign murder of a US national, WTVJ reported. Knezevich, 36, was arrested in May and …
