A 14-year-old Florida boy pleaded guilty this week to beating and raping a 91-year-old woman earlier this year. Jesse Stone initially pleaded not guilty to the charges in August, WKMG reported. He is to be sentenced as an adult on December 19. According to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office, the victim woke up around midnight …
A Florida sheriff’s deputy has been charged with manslaughter after he shot his girlfriend in the head with a rifle and claimed it was an accident. Leslie Dale Boileau, 32, lost his job with the Marion County Sheriff’s Office after the fatal shooting on Thursday, the Ocala Gazette reported. He had been with the department …
A retired Indiana police chaplain has been arrested and charged with molesting an 8-year-old girl. A probable cause affidavit said that Sylvester “Leroy” Driscoll, 73, sexually abused the girl more than 100 times since she was 5-years-old, WISH reported. Court documents said the girl told a school counselor about the abuse in August after her …
An Ohio man was sentenced to 50 to 55.5 years in prison after pleading guilty to multiple felonies stemming from his kidnapping of a woman and holding her prisoner for days while use a baseball bat and a metal chain to torture her. Shane Edward Hooper, 36, pleaded guilty to two counts of rape, two …
A Florida middle school cancelled its awards ceremony Wednesday night after a shooting in the school parking lot left a man dead. Families were gathered inside North Marion Middle School for the ceremony, but the Marion County School District said no students were involved in or witnessed the shooting, the Ocala StarBanner reported. Deputies told …
An alleged drunk driver sideswiped a bus carrying dozens of farm workers to their job in Florida early Tuesday morning, causing a crash that killed eight people and injured many more. The collision drove the bus, with 53 people aboard, off State Route 40 and into a tree before it overturned. Florida Highway Patrol Lt. …
A South Carolina man wanted for the murder of a New Mexico State Police officer was captured Sunday in Albuquerque. The Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office said that a gas station clerk spotted a man matching Jaremy Smith’s description and called 911. Deputies surround him as he walked along the street, but he took off running …
The sister of a missing Florida woman says she has taken it upon herself to get permission to search a wooded property near where the missing woman was last seen. As CrimeOnline reported, Sara Ebersole was reported missing on March 8. She was seen getting into a black pickup truck at a Circle K on …
A Florida man was arrested last week will killing his husband earlier this year and staging a fake crime scene while disposing of actual evidence. Herbert Swilley, 55, has been charged with first degree murder in the death of Timothy Floyd Smith, 59, in March, according to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office. Marion County deputies …
A judge on Thursday set bond at $154,000 for the Florida woman accusing of shooting and killing her neighbor through her own front door earlier this week. Susan Lorincz, 58, was arrested on Tuesday for the death of Ajike “AJ” Owens on June 2. Marion County officials delayed making an arrest in the case to …
US Marshals and the Lake County Sheriff’s Office have arrested the third suspect in the murders of three teenagers in a rural Florida community last week. The 16-year-old was arrested on outstanding warrants for carjacking with a firearm, aggravated assault, grand theft of a motor vehicle, fleeing or attempting to elude law enforcement, and tampering …
Arrest affidavits for two boys charged in the murders of three Florida teens last week reveal more information about how the shootings went down. crimeonline, the Marion County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday it had arrested a 12-year-old and a 17-year-old for the murders, which stunned the rural community north of Orlando. They are still looking …
