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 …
A babysitter has been arrested and charged with poisoning an 11-month-old Florida boy with antifreeze. Anna Marie Adamo has been charged with aggravated child abuse, attempted murder, and poisoning food or water with the intent to kill or injury, according to a probable cause affidavit filed in the case. The document says detectives began investigating …
A 73-year-old Florida man is behind bars after he tried to tried to kill his family “to get ’em up to heaven.” Allison Hatton has been charged with one count of attempted murder, one count of aggravated battery on a person over 65, and one count of assault with the intent to commit a felony,” …
A Florida daycare worker has been fired after she was seen on surveillance video mistreating a child with disabilities in her care at the facility. Kaitlyn Pitzer, 36, was charged with one count of child abuse after the incident. The Hernando County Sheriff’s Office said it was called about the incident by Tender Care Prescribed …
A judge has granted a restraining order against a Florida congressman whose ex-girlfriend accused him of harassing her after she broke up when she learned he was seeing someone else in Washington, D.C. Lindsey Langston, a 26-year-old state Republican committee woman and the reigning Miss United States, accused US Rep. Cory Mills, 45, of threatening …
A drunk boater jumped off his rented jet ski on Saturday when he realized he was about to crash into another jet ski, leaving two children injured, one of them seriously. According to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office, Daniel Patrick Grubert, 48, was racing yet another jet ski riderSaturday afternoon near Johns Pass. Investigators say …
A Florida man was arrested Monday after he carjacked a Good Samaritan at gunpoint then later fled police through the mangroves of the Halifax River. The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said a victim reported that the suspect, later identified as 34-year-old Grant Hagood-James, asked hi for a ride in Daytona Beach Shores, then pulled a …
A Florida couple has been charged with child neglect after they allegedly left a boy on the side of Interstate 75 earlier this month with a bag of handguns. North Port police said they were alerted to the juvenile walking along the side of the busy highway just before 6 p.m. on October 1, WWSB …
A Florida man has been charged with two counts of murder after a man and a woman were found shot to death late last week in Tampa. Louis Jules, 59, had fled the scene by the time officers arrived and found the 37-year-old man and 40-year-old woman dead at the scene at about 11 a.m., …
A 43-year-old Florida man was arrested after he allegedly pointed a gun at several kids and threatened to shoot them and “watch them bleed out” after they created a wake near his boat. The New Smyrna Beach Police Department was first alerted on Saturday by another man who reported that he’d gotten into a verbal …
A former Florida deputy sheriff was found guilty Wednesday of killing his girlfriend last year in what he claimed was an “accidental discharge.” The six-person jury deliberated for about 90 minutes, including lunch, before returning a guilty verdict on a charge of manslaughter with a firearm for Leslie Dale Boileau Jr. in the death of …
