Miami-Dade Police are investigating after a human head washed ashore Tuesday morning on Key Biscayne. Officials said the head was found by someone raking the beach, WTVJ reported. That person called authorities. A section of the beach was closed off while investigators where are the scene. The medical examiner will make an attempt to identify …
A 14-year-old Florida boy pleaded guilty this week to beating and raping a 91-year-old woman earlier this year. Jesse Stone initially pleaded not guilty to the charges in August, WKMG reported. He is to be sentenced as an adult on December 19. According to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office, the victim woke up around midnight …
A 70-year-old New Hampshire man has been arrested in Florida on charges of child sexual assault. The Campton, New Hampshire, Police Department said it began investigating David Duncan after receiving reports of sexual assaults against children in June. Duncan was last known to be living in Bradenton, Florida, the department said, where investigators believe he …
Florida investigators say a 20-year-old woman found shot to death off a roadway in Melbourne was killed in a targeted attack. The body was found just after 6:30 a.m. Monday when a witness notified deputies, the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office said. The victim had been shot and was pronounced dead on the scene. Investigators identified …
Detectives in Florida are seeking a murder warrant for an Orange County man for the death of his girlfriend, whose body was found last week in Georgia. Jorge Javier Quintero, 41, was located in Alabama, where he got into a confrontation with the US Marshals Service and was shot. He was hospitalized in critical condition …
A Florida couple has been arrested after they allegedly attacked another man on the beach with a hatchet. The shirtless, bleeding victim flagged down a deputy on Ocean Shore Blvd. in Ormond-by-the-Sea at around 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, telling the deputy that he’d agreed to have sex with the woman on the beach but that …
A Florida man was arrested last week and charged in the disappearance and presumed death of a woman he had an affair with and the child that resulted from that affair. Gustavo Castano Restrepo was indicted by a federal grand jury on two counts of kidnapping resulting in death in the disappearances of Liliana Moreno and …
A judge granted bond on Friday for a 19-year-old Florida college student accused of killing her newborn child and putting her body in a trash can in April. Brianna Moore, a University of Tampa student, was arrested last month and charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child, child neglect with great bodily harm, failure to …
A 15-month-old baby is dead after a relative forgot to drop the child off at day care and Friday and parked at a Florida middle school all day, leaving the baby inside the car. Sumter County deputies said they were called to South Sumter Middle School just before 4:30 p.m. Investigators said the toddler was …
A Florida man called a relative Friday night and said he’d just killed his wife and then, apparently, killed himself at a Tampa hotel. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office launched an investigation after Weleska Gomez Baroeta’s relatives reported her missing just after 9 p.m. Her body was found three hours later in a car parked …
A Florida therapist is accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a 15-year-old boy she was counseling. Law enforcement launched an investigation after learning of the allegations against Elizabeth Blanchard in late August, according to WJXT. Court documents say the teen was in group counseling at EPIC Behavioral Healthcare in St. Augustine but got into …
Orlando Police arrested a 17-year-old boy early Friday morning after a pair of downtown shootings left two people dead and six others wounded. Police said nearly 100 officers were on patrol downtown because of the large crowd expected in the area for Halloween and responded immediately to reports of shots fired at Central Boulevard and …
