A Florida woman who smothered her 9-year-old cousin to death by sitting on her in October 2017 was recently sentenced to life in prison. As reported by the Pensacola News Journal, Veronica Green Posey, 66, was sentenced to life in prison after she was convicted Friday for the first-degree felony murder of Dericka Lindsay. Posey—who weighs …
Authorities in Florida say a priest was arrested on suspicion of drugging and raping a parishioner. According to the Miami Herald, Father Jean Claude Jean-Philippe was the parochial vicar at the Homestead church and was even the priest at the victim’s wedding, police say. The 64-year-old allegedly invited the woman to his residence at Sacred …
Authorities in Maryland say a man was arrested on suspicion of attacking a federally protected animal after allegedly posting a Facebook video of himself wrestling a pelican recently while in the Florida Keys. According to the Baltimore Sun, 31-year-old William Hunter Hardesty was identified as a suspect in the animal cruelty case after the viral …
Authorities in Florida say a man was arrested on suspicion of robbing a liquor store in Casselberry last month. According to WLS, Edward Wilburn is accused of entering the Winn Dixie Wine and Spirits Store on January 2 clad in a Spider-Man mask. Investigators believe he is the man seen attempting to enter the store …
Authorities in Florida say a former paramedic is unemployed, unlicensed and facing criminal charges following an investigation into his behavior during a call late last year. According to the New York Post, 26-year-old Kendal Evans Billings is accused of responding to the December 9 motorcycle crash as part of Nature Coast Emergency Medical Services and …
Authorities say a 19-year-old Florida man was arrested on suspicion of killing his 16-year-old girlfriend’s pet puppy and leaving its mutilated body on her front doorstep. According to the New York Post, Lawrence Chaz Graham allegedly told the girl that he expected her to be home by 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, threatening that he would …
Just weeks after a Florida mayor was arrested on suspicion of firing a gun at police officers at his home to arrest him on charges of practicing medicine without a license, his replacement found himself behind bars this week. According to the New York Post, Acting Port Richey Mayor Terance Hagen Rowe was arrested on …
Authorities in Florida say a 47-year-old woman shot her boyfriend at their home in Brevard County this week during an argument about the latter’s loud snoring. According to the New York Post, police say Lorie Morin initially claimed the shooting was an accident, an assertion backed up at first by the victim. As the Brevard …
A Florida father was arrested Monday afternoon after allegedly going to his son’s school with a loaded gun and threatening to kill staff. According to ABC News, Christopher Freeman, 27, arrived at Bear Lakes Middle School in West Palm Beach in a wheelchair, and told faculty he would kill them if they didn’t let him speak with …
A Florida high school was reportedly placed on lockdown Wednesday morning after a 17-year-old student fatally shot herself in the school auditorium. WESH reported that a Lake Mary High School student took her own life five minutes after asking to use the bathroom at 7:45 a.m. A teacher reportedly heard a single gunshot, prompting an …
“It was the ‘perfect’ murder.”
Authorities in Florida say their response to a fatal shooting was captured by television cameras rolling in the area Saturday night. The deadly incident prompted an investigation that remained ongoing as of Sunday afternoon. According to WFLA, the Pasco Sheriff’s Office received the report of a fatal encounter between neighbors in Port Richey late last …
