A 12-year-old Florida boy who jumped out of a pickup truck on Wednesday was spotted by witnesses who not only rescued him but apprehended his alleged abductor. The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported that the victim was walking home from school when he got into Timothy Miller’s truck. Shortly after that, Miller allegedly asked the boy …
A Florida man currently on trial for fatally shooting an unarmed man last year initially claimed he opened fire as he feared he was going to be kicked, a police interview presented to the court on Thursday revealed. Michael Drejka, 49, is facing manslaughter charges for fatally shooting Markeis McGlockton, 28, at a Clearwater convenience …
A Florida man is currently standing trial for last year’s shooting death of a man in what reportedly stemmed from a dispute over a parking spot. Michael Drejka, 49, is facing manslaughter charges for fatally shooting Markeis McGlockton, 28, outside of a Clearwater convenience store parking lot on July 19, 2018. While Drejka’s attorneys are …
Since the deadly shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, at least 27 people around the country have been arrested for threatening to conduct mass shootings or attacks of their own. Most recently, police in Volusia County, Florida, arrested a 15-year-old boy for allegedly posting an online threat to shoot up his high school. …
A man in Florida was arrested earlier this month after an argument over slavery role-playing reportedly resulted in him spitting in his black girlfriend’s face. A probable cause affidavit by obtained by The Smoking Gun stated that Ashley Edwards, 35, asked Kenneth Atkins, 37, to play “slave and slaver because she is African American and …
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) said they arrested a man on Friday for threatening to shoot up a Walmart in a Facebook post. Richard D. Clayton, 26, was charged with intimidation through a written threat for reportedly writing, “3 more days of probation left then I get my AR-15 back. Don’t go to …
A day care driver allegedly turned off the safety alarm for the van that a 2-year-old Florida boy died in late last month. According to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, a recently-released county report stated that the unidentified driver exited the white Ford E-350 Super Duty van and walked around the back to disable to alarm. …
Money stolen from the elderly couple reportedly included reparations given to the grandmother for the Holocaust
Authorities in Florida arrested a man who they claimed called into a Walmart and threatened to shoot it up, prompting an evacuation. Wayne Lee Padgett, 31, allegedly called into a Walmart in Gibsonton on Sunday afternoon and told an employee that he was near the store and would be there to commit a shooting. The …
A Florida man was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Friday for failing to disclose his HIV-positive status to at least two women he had sex with. Law enforcement began investigating Rasheem Ikey Bodiford, 27, in June 2017, after a woman said she tested positive for HIV and identified him as her last sexual …
A 2-year-old boy in Florida has reportedly died after being found unresponsive in a van parked outside a day care center on Monday. The toddler, who multiple news outlets have identified as Noah Sneed, was found dead outside Ceressa’s Daycare & Preschool in Oakland Park at around 3:30 p.m. Broward police spokesperson Keyla Concepcion told …
Authorities in Florida say a state trooper has been arrested on suspicion of engaging in a sexual relationship with a juvenile girl. According to WGHP, 23-year-old Riley Marcus Schwarz is accused of lewd and lascivious battery against a 15-year-old girl. The suspect has reportedly been fired from the Florida Highway Patrol, where he had been …
