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Authorities in Florida say they were able to thwart a trio of would-be armored bank truck robbers with deadly intentions after an informant advised federal agents of a plot that was reportedly two years in the making. According to USA Today, the three suspects were arrested on Feb. 20, just hours before the heist was …
Authorities in Florida have arrested a middle school teacher on suspicion of carrying out an illicit relationship with a 14-year-old student. According to Newsweek, police believe the married 26-year-old teacher began taking an inappropriate interest in the student in November, which played out with her sending him nude images of herself and purchasing marijuana for …
The daughter of an Air Force veteran is demanding answers after a Veteran Affairs computer system allegedly stopped her father’s prescription pills for a brain injury–which she said resulted in him slipping into a near-vegetative state. Brandye Jackson, the daughter of Air Force veteran Tom Barr, told WFLA that her father was temporarily “flat” because a …
By KELLI KENNEDY, BRENDAN FARRINGTON and CURT ANDERSON, Associated Press PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — The sheriff’s deputy assigned to guard the Florida high school that was the scene of a mass shooting never entered the building to confront the suspect because he believed the gunfire was coming from outside, his attorney said Monday. Scot Peterson has …
By ALINA HARTOUNIAN, Associated Press One student was teased about being a “brown, bald lesbian.” Another was the target of conspiracy theorists who claimed he was really an actor. When a group of teens posed for a photo, they were accused of lapping up attention from the news cameras and “partying like rock stars.” Just days …
The delay led officers to believe that the shooter was still in the building when he was actually in a McDonald’s a mile away
A Florida teen was is accused of bringing a knife to school along with a list of students’ names with the caption “dead ha ha dead.” The Sun-Sentinel report that Benjamin Mendoza, 18, a student at Palmetto Ridge High School in Naples, was arrested Monday after police received a tip Friday that Mendoza had brought a gas …
The third day of the penalty phase for the man who killed, beat, and raped Florida girl Cherish Perrywinkle begins on Thursday morning and will likely end with a Duvall County jury’s decision on whether Donald Smith will get death or life without parole. On Wednesday, a neuropsychologist explained that Smith was indeed a “psychopath” who …
“One of our own was a hero last week and needs our help”
The Mississippi bail bondsman who alerted federal investigators last year to suspicious behavior by the suspected Florida school gunman is speaking out as the FBI faces accusations that it dropped the ball. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Ben Bennight contacted the bureau in September to report a YouTube comment by someone named Nikolas Cruz — the …
Nikolas Cruz, the teen accused of killing 17 people during a brutal school shooting in Parkland, Florida, on Wednesday, wants to offer a guilty plea in an attempt to avoid the death penalty, according to his lawyer. The Sun Sentinel reports that public defender Howard Finkelstein, who’s representing 19-year-old Cruz, said that a trial would essentially be …
By MICHAEL BIESECKER and COLLIN BINKLEY, Associated Press The troubled teen authorities say killed 17 people at a Florida high school excelled in an air-rifle marksmanship program supported by a grant from the National Rifle Association Foundation, part of a multimillion-dollar effort by the gun group to support youth shooting clubs and other programs. Nikolas Cruz, …
