Investigators on Florida’s Atlantic coast and near San Antonio in Texas are looking at separate incidents of human remains found in suitcases over the past week The Delray Beach Police Department said a person called on Friday and “reported seeing something strange in the intracoastal waterway.” Detectives found a suitcase in the water with human …
A Florida sex offender known as “Joker” in court records going back more than a decade was found overdosed on July 8, a day after he was released from jail and cut off his ankle monitor. Albert Gardner, 29, was taken back to jail after Narcan reversed his overdose and charged with violating parole and …
A Florida couple has been charged with human trafficking after they allegedly bonded three women out of jail in Marion County and forced them into prostitution. The Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation, a multi-agency organization in central Florida, said it believe Joselito Martinez, 34, and Tanya Wurster, 30, may have more victims, WSVN reported. Martinez and …
Florida police have arrested three men following a deadly shooting at a Florida City Walmart on Wednesday. Miami=Dade Police said that Steven Lestin, 25, has been charged with second degree murder and attempted felony murder, while Roberto Acevedo, 20, and Jimari Hodge, 21, are charged with battery, The Associated Press reported. Police said they weren’t …
A Florida mom was arrested this week and charged with trying to hire a hitman to kill her 3-year-old son. Arrest documents say that Jazmin Paez, 18, used the parody website rentahitman.com to request the murder, WTVJ reported. The website owner, Robert Innes, told the station he receives multiple such requests a day but found …
One person is dead and another was wounded after a shooting Wednesday afternoon inside a Florida Walmart. Police and medical units responded to the Florida City store at about 3 p.m. and took one person into custody after searching the store, WPLG reported. Miami-Dade Police said the shooting happened during an altercation between two groups …
A Florida woman has been charged with the murder of her girlfriend, whose badly decomposed remains were found on a Jacksonville front porch a week after she was last seen. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said that Heather Sheppard, 43, was last seen on June 29, and her remains, “in an advanced stage of decomposition,” were …
A 22-year-old Florida man has been charged with murder in the death of a woman found floating in a canal west of Delray Beach last month. Christopher Diego Soto was also charged with destruction of evidence and providing a false statement. He was denied bond at a court appearance on Tuesday and is due back …
A 7-year-old Florida boy was shot and killed when two groups of people got into an argument over jet skis and resorted to gun violence. Tampa Police said they were called to a boat ramp near the Courtney Campbell Causeway shortly after 8:30 p.m. Tuesday after one group got angry because they felt the other …
Florida authorities issued an Amber Alert Monday for a 12-year-old girl they say was kidnapped just before 3 a.m. from Jacksonville’s Southside. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said Fernanda Arias was taken in a dark-colored, two-door Honda. Deputies later identified the driver as Jorge Reyes, WJXT reported. Arias is described as 4 feet 11 inches tall …
A Daytona Beach Shores public safety lieutenant and his wife, a detective sergeant with the department, twice put their 3 1/2 year-old son in jail during potty training last year. Lt. Michael Schoenbrod bragged to a Department of Children and Family Services that he “was getting the response I expected from him” when the boy …
Two toddlers abducted from the Florida panhandle were found Sunday night abandoned in a park in Wisconsin. Police say 2-year-old Dekarsen Middleton and 1-year-old Delyla Middleton have been reunited with their family, who drove 17 hours from Florida to retrieve them, and a close family friend and her boyfriend have been arrested. “We’ve been on …
