A Florida man has been arrested after he shot another man multiple times in the back early Sunday morning, killing him with “too much force used,” Polk County Sherif Grady Judd said at a news conference. Bryan Medeiros, 25, was outside the bounds of Florida’s “stand your ground” law when he shot Devyn Pritchett, 19, …
A Florida woman thought she was hiring a hit man to kill her husband’s corrections officer mistress, but the hit man turned out to be an undercover agent. Ashley Spencer, 33, was arrested and charged with solicitation to commit first degree murder and solicitation to commit occupied burglary with battery, according to Space Coast Daily. …
A Florida couple has been arrested after a 39-year-old woman told police they held her captive for 48 hours while she was “punched, cut, burned, drugged and repeatedly sexually battered,” according to the Levy County Sheriff’s Office. Alexis Crawford, 20, and Christian White, 30, have been charged with false imprisonment, sexual battery, and aggravated battery. …
The couple thought the family, with a young child, was stealing gasoline.
A Florida man charged with the brutal slayings of two young Florida brothers last week was ordered held without bond on Saturday and appointed a public defender, News4Jax reports. Police said Mark Wilson Jr, 30, used a hammer and a knife to kill Robert Baker, 12, and Tayten Baker, 14, Tuesday in a common area …
A former porn star is among three people arrested for the murder of a man whose remains were found in a shallow grave in Florida this week, nearly two months after he was reported missing. Jeremie Odell Peters, 43; William Shane Parker, 35; and his girlfriend, Lauren Kay Wambles, 23, have all been charged in …
The mother who stabbed her six-year-old daughter to death earlier this month and then stabbed herself has been identified as 36-year-old Purkanah Yisrael Mayo, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office reports. The office said that Mayo has been charged with second degree murder in the death of her daughter, identified by family members as Atarah. As CrimeOnline …
A Florida man has been arrested for allegedly operating a sex ring involving children who were coerced by drugs and violence. The Florida Office of the Attorney General said in a statement Thursday that Orlith Joseph “organized, promoted, and profited from” the child sex ring. The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office reportedly uncovered that Joseph …
Florida authorities are asking for the public’s help in identifying a woman who was found murdered 38 years earlier. Detectives with the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office recently traveled to North Carolina, as they believe the unidentified woman was from Washington County. The victim was found dead in 1982 in a canal in River Beach, …
The wife of a veteran Florida officer died Friday after she was trapped in the backseat of her husband’s police-issued SUV for several hours, according to reports. Investigators reportedly believe Clara Paulino, 56, became trapped in her husband’s Ford Explorer SUV while searching for something. Sources told the Miami Herald that Paulino climbed inside the …
A Florida eighth-grader told Broward County deputies that her stepfather had sexually abused her since she was in 5th grade. Glenn Edward Colon, 48, was arrested last week on charges of sexual battery of a minor and lewd and lascivious molestation of a minor, Local10News reported. The girl also told detectives that Colon took sexually …
A young girl is dead and an adult woman critically wounded in what appears to be a murder and attempted suicide in Jacksonville, Florida, on Wednesday. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office told First Coast News that deputies responded to a 911 call from someone in the home and found the girl, who was under the age …
