A Florida woman claiming to have a “black belt in martial arts” kicked her boyfriend in the nose when he wouldn’t have sex with her and then coughed “copious amounts of saliva” onto a paramedic’s face while shouting “I have the coronavirus!” the Villages News reported. La-Donald Holmes, 38, was charged with domestic battery and …
On Wednesday, police in Florida arrested a man for allegedly sexually assaulting and killing a woman in 1985. The Northwest Florida Daily News reported that investigators in Pensacola used familial DNA to identify Daniel Wells, 57, as a suspect in Tonya Ethridge McKinley’s murder. A family walking their sick dog to an all-night clinic discovered …
Andrew Gillum — Tallahassee’s former mayor who barely lost a 2018 bid to be Florida’s governor — was reportedly found drunk in a hotel room with a male escort who suffered an apparent drug overdose. The reported incident involving Gillum, 40, occurred early Friday at a hotel in Miami Beach. The Palm Beach Post reported …
Three Florida agencies and a funeral home are facing a lawsuit for allegedly misidentifying two car crash victims — resulting in one of them having their organs harvested by mistake. The Pensacola News Journal reported that Deleigha Gibson, 18, and Samara Cooks, 15, who were cousins, were killed in July in Escambia County when the …
The couple had nine other children and a dog in the home, and hardly any food
A Florida school employee was arrested Monday for failing to report a co-worker who left a 12-year-old student with serious injuries when he bodyslammed him, according to reports. The Tampa Bay Times reported that the incident occurred on February 11 at AMIkids, an alternative school in Pinellas Park. The unidentified behavioral interventionist allegedly body-slammed the …
A south Florida man was ordered held without bond at his first court appearance on Saturday after his arrest for slashing his 10-year-old daughter and 17-year-old stepdaughter with a machete, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported. Dennis Anthony Reid, 47, has been charged with two counts of attempted murder and two counts of aggravated child …
A Florida family reportedly filed a formal complaint against a funeral home who they alleged improperly preserved an 11-year-old relative’s remains — resulting in her body decomposing before her funeral service. The Palm Beach Post reported that Re’Asia Washington’s family has accused Shawn Johnson Funeral and Cremation of neither embalming or refrigerating the girl’s body. …
Florida officials have offered $20,000 for information after a third dolphin was reportedly found dead onshore last week. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said that biologists with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) discovered a dead dolphin off the coast of Naples last week. They claimed a bullet or sharp object …
Florida authorities are searching for a suspect who allegedly shot and killed his former co-worker at her job on Monday. Citing Orlando police officials, WTVJ reported that Daniel Everett, 46, shot and killed Eunice Marie Vazquez, 37, at the Orlando Premium Outlets on Monday night. Vasquez and Everett were both managers at the Under Armour …
Florida authorities said two men who were caught with a stash of narcotics on Saturday had hidden the drugs in a bag labeled “Bag Full of Drugs.” WPLG reported that troopers made the discovery after pulling over Ian Simmons and Joshua Reinhardt, both 34, on Interstate 10 for speeding. Florida Highway Patrol recovered 75 of …
A retired teacher in Florida was arrested Friday for allegedly having sex with a 17-year-old student on multiple occasions in 2016. Arrested in Pinellas County, Tom Privett, 70, was charged sexual battery with a child under custodial authority for crimes that occurred in Miami-Dade County. The Miami Herald reported that Privett is a 30-year history …
