Florida prosecutors have dropped charges against a family of four accused of abusing their nine adopted and foster children after determining that the family was just doing to best it could under difficult circumstances. Brian Griffeth, 47, Jill Griffeth, 41, and their two biological children — 21-year-old Dallin Griffeth and 19-year-old Liberty Griffeth — have …
A Florida woman has been charged with false imprisonment of a young child and burglary after she allegedly tried to kidnap a 5-year-old boy from his grandmother’s vehicle. An immigration hold was also placed on Ivanna Nobile, 38, Broward County jail records show. According to WPLG, the grandmother told police she had stopped her SUV …
A Florida woman is in jail, charged with stabbing her teen sister about 10 times after the girl tried to stop her from looking through her phone. The Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office says the incident took place mid-afternoon on Sunday in Cutler Bay, WPLG reports. An arrest report says the 15-year-old victim woke up from a …
A Florida woman has been charged with neglect of an elderly or disabled adult and battery on a person 65 or older after her children accused her of mistreating their 77-year-old grandmother with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. An arrest affidavit says that Janet Edwards, 49, admitted that she saw her elderly mother eating feces from …
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 …
