A Florida woman and her boyfriend have been charged in connection with the murder of her grandparents in March. Maurice Anthony Newson, 30, was charged in August with the murder of Major and Claudette Melvin, 89 and 85, who were shot to death on March 22, WPLG reported. Jelissa Hill was arrested this week and …
A Florida paramedic has been arrested and charged with sexual battery of an unconscious woman in his ambulance in 2021. James Melady resigned from Flagler County Fire Rescue in May after he failed a drug test, Flagler Live reported. He had been with the department since June 2018. Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly told WJXT …
A Florida mother has been charged with child abuse and neglect after she allegedly shoved her 1-year-old daughter out of her car because the child spilled sjampoo. The incident happened on September 5 in Hialeah and was captured on a Ring doorbell camera, as CrimeOnline reported, but at the time it appeared the little girl …
A Florida man awaiting trial on an armed sexual battery charge has now been accused of plotting to murder his victim from jail. Carlos Alberto Mendez fled Florida after the rape but was captured in Texas and extradited back to Miami-Dade County, WPLG reported. In August, however, he began plotting with another inmate to kill …
Family members and home health care nurses have been arrested in connection with the death of a 7-year-old Florida boy who weighed just seven pounds at the time of his death last December. Police and medics were called to a home in Fort Lauderdale on December 25 for a medical emergency involving the boy, identified …
A Florida couple was arrested Sunday after Okaloosa County deputies spotted a young boy running across multiple lanes of traffic, naked and covered in feces. The deputies knew the boy’s identity and took him to a home in Fort Walton Beach after cleaning him up and wrapping him in a towell, the sheriff’s office said. …
A Florida man has been charged with DUI manslaughter after he drove along a dead-end street in a gated community and struck a 2-year-old boy on a tricycle, killing him. Joshua Montero, 19, denied being drunk but failed field sobriety tests and was taken to jail. His victim was rushed to Advent Health Waterman in …
A Florida mayor was arrested last month with a DUI after she allegedly followed a couple home, hit their mailbox, and parked her car on the grass. Naples police said Teresa Heitmann, mayor of Naples, was arrested on Wednesday after agreeing to field sobriety tests and completed two breath tests at the Naples Jail Center …
A Florida woman awaiting trial for the 2020 death of a her boyfriend, who suffocated inside a small suitcase, has obtained a new attorney who apparently answered her ad for someone “ready for your close-up on nat’l television.” Sarah Boone, 46, has been representing herself since June, when the court ruled that her behavior forfeited …
A Florida woman was charged this week with murder in the death of her boyfriend’s 9-year-old daughter earlier this summer. Tyshael Martin, 34, has been charged with first degree murder, aggravated child abuse, and child neglect in the June 17 death of Jamaria Sessions, WFTV reported. Lake County sheriff’s investigators said they found video on …
A Florida daycare bus driver was arrested this week after she left a 6-year-old girl sleeping on her bus for over an hour. The Seminole County Sheriff’s Office said the girl banged on a window to attract the attention someone walking by after she woke up “realizing she was very hot and had trouble breathing,” …
A Florida man was arrested Saturday after his children called 911 and said he’d shot their mother. Jose Manuel Otero-Fontanez, 48, opened fire on police when they responded to the call in the Hanover Lakes community in St. Cloud, WESH reported. Officers sent a drone into the house, and Otero-Fontanez reported fired at the drone …
