Florida

Murder for hire
February 22, 2022

Florida Woman Pays Hit Man With Paycheck Protection Program Loan

A Florida woman has been charged with using a PaycheckProtection Program loan to pay for a hit on a woman she’d been feuding with for years. Transportation Security Administration agent Le’Shonte Jones, 24, was shot and killed last May as she was returning home with her 3-year-old daughter after her shift at Miami International Airport. …

Court
February 21, 2022

Florida Doctor Who Killed His Father in Botched Murder-Suicide Gets Probation

A Florida doctor who shot and killed his father nearly four years ago won’t spend any time in prison after agreeing to a plea deal last week. Rafael Azulay was initially charged with second-degree murder in the May 12, 2018, incident that killed his father, 67-year-old Asher Azulay, and sent him to a hospital in …

Toddler inside dark room
child endangerment
February 21, 2022

VIDEO: Mom Finds Toddler Daughter Alone in Locked, Dark Day Care

A Florida woman reportedly found her 2-year-old daughter alone in a closed day care on Wednesday. Plantation police said they were called to Plantation KinderCare roughly eight minutes after an assistant director and teacher closed the center. Responding police and fire crews were able to get Stephanie Martinez’s child out of the locked day care …

Murder
February 20, 2022

Florida Woman Stabs Husband 140 Times With a Meat Cleaver

A Florida woman has been charged with first degree murder after she alleged stabbed her husband more than 140 times with a meat cleaver. Joan Burke, 61, was arrested on Saturday and made her first court appearance on Sunday. She was ordered held without bail. Palm Springs police said they were called on the evening …

Child Abuse
February 8, 2022

Florida Couple Keeps Adopted 13-Year-Old Locked in Garage for 5 Years

A Florida couple has been charged with aggravated child abuse after a runaway child investigation revealed evidence that had been physical abusing their adopted 13-year-old child. Jupiter Police said they were called to a home in the Egret Landing community about a 13-year-old runaway on January 30. Tracy Ferriter, the mother, allowed one detective into …

Hate Crimes
January 27, 2022

Florida Man Swings Pipe at Teens’ Car While Shouting Racial Slurs: Cops

A Florida sheriff’s department has recommended a hate crimes enhancement against a 58-year-old man who allegedly attacked three teens at a gas station while shouting racial slurs at them. Richard Burnham, 58, has been charged with criminal mischief causing $1,000 damage and three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon related to the incident …

Sex Crimes
January 11, 2022

Teacher Was Sexually Abusing Underage Student When Cops Knocked on His Door: Police

A Florida teacher was arrested on Saturday amid allegations that he has been sexually abusing a 17-year-old student since December. Charles W. Flanagan High School teacher Philip Velez, 28, reportedly told police officers who came to his Hollywood apartment on Saturday that he was with his girlfriend — a 17-year-old female student. Velez also admitted …

Kidnapping
January 9, 2022

Florida Man, Woman Kidnap, Torture Another Man To Force Him To Admit to Infidelity

A South Florida man and woman stand accused of kidnapping and torturing a man for three days last month, including making him drink bleach and threatening to force him to eat his own feces. Police said Marie Dorsainvil, 51, and Occius Dorsainvil, 56, lured the victim to an apartment, where they bound him in chains, …