A 24-year-old Florida woman was arrested last week for a fatal hit-and-run earlier this month in Lakeland. Aliya Cruz was arrested on Friday and charged with leaving the scene of a crash involving death, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office said. The sheriff’s office said a 911 caller reported a woman lying in the middle of …
A Florida mother was arrested last week after her children’s father dropped the kids off at a “filthy” Miami Beach home filled with “old food and dirty dishes scattered throughout, with flies and insects.” Miriam Shvetz, 34, was not home, and the children were alone, WPLG said. Shvetz’s ex-husband called police after the kids, ages …
Florida authorities this week released video they’d found in their investigation of the death of Giovanni Pelletier. Manatee County Sheriff Rick Wells recapped the teen’s texts and travels in the time before his disappearance. Pelletier, 18, disappeared on August 1 after getting out of a vehicle driven by a cousin on Interstate 75 near State …
A Florida school teacher was arrested on a driving under the influence charge this week after he crashed his car into a school fence on the first day of school. A Hernando County Sheriff’s deputy found Philip Scire, 32, unconscious just after 11 a.m. on Tuesday behind the steering wheel of his car, which was …
Florida officials confirmed on Thursday that a body discovered in a pond last week is a North Carolina man who vanished almost two weeks ago. According to WFTS, the District 12 Medical Examiner’s Office in Manatee County used dental records to identify the body recovered from a retention pond as Giovanni Pelletier, 18. His decomposed …
A Florida mother has been arrested on a child abuse charge more than a year after her 3-month-old daughter was found unresponsive, seizing, and with her stomach covered in bruises. Kelly Ward, 22, was arrested in Hillsborough County and brought back to Volusia County to face a child neglect causing great bodily harm charge, jail …
An 84-year-old Florida man remains hospitalized this week after his 54-year-old daughter left him sitting in a recliner for two months and hadn’t gotten him medical care since January. Pamela Reynolds finally called 911 on July 31 because of a rapid heart rate, WEAR reported. She told investigators she hadn’t seen any of his multiple …
A Florida county official claimed he “helped” his 90-year-old grandfather by loading him up with a deadly cocktail of prescription drugs while the nonagenarian was in home hospice care earlier this year. Christopher Balter, 35, resigned from his position as Indian River County’s Planning and Development Services director after his August 3 arrest for delivering …
An Oklahoma pediatrician accused of killing her 4-year-old daughter on a Florida vacation had her charges downgraded on Thursday. Neha Gupta faces a charge of aggravated manslaughter of a child and is now eligible for bond, KOCO reported. “We believe that the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office rushed to judgment, went out to Oklahoma, with U.S. Marshals, …
A 5-year-old girl witnessed her mother’s husband gun down her mother, aunt, and grandmother before killing himself — and now the murderer’s family has custody of the girl, leaving her mother’s family with no access. The Nassau County Sheriff’s Office cited “privacy” issues for not identifying the victims of the July 24 shooting or their …
A Florida mother was arrested Tuesday when she returned home from a two-week trip to Las Vegas, abandoning her child and multiple dogs alone in a trash- and feces-filled home in Palatka. Putnam County deputies responded to a call for a welfare check Monday night before Jessica Copeland, 37, returned home, WJXT reported. They found …
A vacationer from the United Kingdom was arrested on Sunday and charged with trying to drown his daughter-in-law in an argument about his grandchildren. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office said that Mark Raymond Gibbon, 62, has been charged with attempted second degree murder and two counts of battery. The sheriff’s office said deputies were called …
