A 13-year-old Florida boy who vanished while walking to a store Friday afternoon was found dead late Sunday night. The body of Darius Swain was found behind a Tallahassee Walmart not far from where he was last seen, his aunt, Dawn Burke, told WTXL. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement issued a Missing Child Alert …
Indian River County deputies investigating a “creepy amount” of buzzards in a neighborhood near Gifford found the body of a woman who’d missing missing more than week. Maria Guadaloupe Romo, 33, was found dead in canal, and investigators are treating her death as a homicide, according to the Indian County Sheriff’s Office. Initial reports indicated …
A Florida man was sentenced this week to two years in prison for not telling his sex partners about his positive HIV status. Gentry Burns, 27, appeared in Volusia County court on Thursday and pleaded no contest to a single count of uninformed HIV-infected sexual intercourse, WESH reported. Two other counts of the same charge …
Two Florida sisters pleaded guilty earlier this year to killing their 85-year-old father after one of them confessed to man that both sisters had slept with. Linda Roberts, 64, called 911 on the morning of March 6, 2015, to say she and her 65-year-old sister, Mary Beth Tomaselli, had found Anthony Tomaselli dead on his …
A 43-year-old Florida woman has been charged with aggravated manslaughter after she alleged left a toddler in a sweltering van for seven hours. Juana Perez-Domingo appeared in court Saturday morning and was given a $50,000 bond, according to CBS Miami. The police report filed in the case said that Perez-Domingo was hired to take neighborhood …
Florida police are investigating the stabbing death of a woman Friday morning after one of her children called to report the incident. Three children were in the apartment on University Boulevard in Jacksonville, News4Jax reported, and none of them were hurt, First Coast News reported. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office arrested Nathan Matthew Rines, 40, and …
Police in South Florida are looking for an 84-year-old man who left home Saturday morning and hasn’t been seen since. Hialeah Police issued a Silver Alert for Esteban Gonzalez, who was captured on his Ring doorbell camera leaving home in a blue 2014 Ford F-150, heading west, Local10 reported. Gonzalez left his home just before …
Police in Florida are looking for an endangered teenage boy who disappeared Sunday morning. Fort Myers police said that Alexander Connolly, 16, was last seen at about 8 a.m. near 3675 Broadway Avenue in Fort Myers. He was wearing a black T-shirt, blue jeans, and white shoes. The teen is described as about 5 feet …
A 2018 engineering assessment found “major structural damage” caused by a lack of proper drainage beneath the Champlain Towers pool deck, three years before the south tower collapsed in a cloud of dust this week. The report also found damage to balconies, cracks on parking garage columns, exposed steel support beams on the garage deck, …
Police are looking into reports that Tinessa Hogan was asking to baptize people in the canal on Monday, the last time the sisters were seen — near the canal with their mother.
The woman suspected of killing a former Florida state senator’s son is the jilted ex-girlfriend of the woman Jason Campbell was with he was killed. Federal marshals arrested Lakoria Shamece Washington, 24, on Monday in Port Orange. She’s been charged with first degree murder in the death of Campbell, 23, the Miami Herald reported. Campbell …
Florida police have arrested a 14-year-old boy for culpable negligence in the shooting death of a 6-year-old boy. The incident took place Tuesday evening, Action News Jax reported. The younger boy was watching television in the bedroom when he found a loaded gun and shot himself in the face. Investigators found that the weapon was …
