NFL running back and free agent Mark Walton was arrested on Sunday in Florida for allegedly punching his cousin and trying to break a window at a Pizza Hut. According to TMZ, Walton, 23, told police that he came to the Miami location because one of the employees had disrespected him over the phone. Before …
Friends, family, still unnerved by close encounters with the killer grandma Lois Reiss.
A Florida woman allegedly threw her 1-month-old daughter Monday during a domestic dispute, seriously injuring the baby. According to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Shana Vega, 34, pulled a knife on her daughter’s father and threw the newborn at him at an extended stay hotel in West Palm Beach. The father reportedly did not catch the …
Florida police are looking for a 17-year-old girl who has been missing since January 22, WTXL reports. Tashayvia Bell was last seen in northwest Tallahassee, not far from Florida State University. She is described as 5 foot 8 inches, 275 pounds, with brown eyes and shoulder-length hair. When last seen, she was wearing a black …
The teen was released without bond days after last year’s slaying
A manager at a popular Daytona Beach restaurant was beaten to death by a man he met on a dating app, the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said Sunday. Bobby Scott, 63, was reported missing by his husband on January 18 after he left their home the day before and never returned, the Daytona Beach News …
A Florida couple was arrested Sunday for allegedly keeping their son handcuffed in a closet for 16 hours a day, starting on Christmas. Police were investigating a missing child report at a Tampa residence when they located the victim and learned he was hiding in the home. Shortly after, authorities returned to the residence to …
A teacher at a New York girls school was arrested Saturday after he travelled to Tampa, Florida, to have sex with a minor, the Tampa Bay Times reports. Zeshaan Naqvi, 31, allegedly had been communicating with the victim, whom he met online, for about three months, the Times said. Naqvi was arrested at a hotel …
A naked man stole a Florida deputy’s vehicle and later crashed it into some woods, First Coast News reports. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said it received multiple calls about a naked man on the Interstate 10 roadway shortly before noon on Thursday, First Coast said. The first officer on the scene said he saw Joshua …
A 14-year-old Florida girl shot in the head on Tuesday has died, and just hours later, her mother — initially charged with attempted manslaughter in the incident — bonded out of jail, First Coast News reports. Amanda Jane Guthrie, 37, was re-arrested Thursday afternoon and charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child, according to Jacksonville …
A Florida man remains hospitalized with serious injuries days after he allegedly tried to burn a house down and lit himself on fire instead. Tampa police told WTVT that on Sunday, Scott Massa, 51, attempted to hurl a bucket of accelerant through a window he had broken, presumably to start a fire in the building. …
Two practitioners of an ancient religion imported to Cuba and the Caribbean by Congolese slaves have been arrested in Florida for stealing human remains for use on a shrine, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office says. Brian Montalvo Tolentino, 43, and Juan Burgos-Lopez, 39, are accused of robbing the graves of four people — including three …
