A 72-year-old Florida man was arrested this week for allegedly touch a young girl swiming at an Orange County resort. William Chatel was charged with lewd or lascivious molestation of a victim under 12 and booked into the Orange County jail, WESH reported. An arrest report says the girl’s mother called the Orange County Sheriff’s …
A 65-year-old Florida man was arrested this week for battery, months after he was seen on video attacking two women in a church parking lot because he thought they shouldn’t have parked in a handicapped space. The victims, a 22-year-old woman and her disabled mother who had difficulty walking after a car crash, had come …
The mother of a 3-year-old boy found dead earlier this year in a Florida resort’s retention pond has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the resort. Tarina Akbari’s lawsuit names Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation, Vistana Management, Inc., Vistana Development, Inc. and Vistana Spa Condominium Association, Inc. as defendants, WKMG reports. Akbari’s son, Rakim Akbari wandered …
Detectives in Florida are seeking a murder warrant for an Orange County man for the death of his girlfriend, whose body was found last week in Georgia. Jorge Javier Quintero, 41, was located in Alabama, where he got into a confrontation with the US Marshals Service and was shot. He was hospitalized in critical condition …
A former Florida sheriff’s deputy was arrested Friday and charged with killing his estranged wife, who worked for the same department, and trying to pass it off as a suicide. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office said it responded Monday to what appeared to be the suicide of OCSO Lt. Eloilda “Ellie” Shea, 39. By the …
A California barber has been charged with murder, child abuse, and torture after he allegedly beat a 6-year-old boy to death for peeing in his pants. Ernest Lamar Love, 41, was babysitting Chance Crawford on August 29 while his mother worked at her job as a nurser’s assistant at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Orange County, …
Authorities in Florida have arrested a man previously charged sexually abusing a child with the murder of a teenager who was found barely clinging to life in a utility closet on July 4. Rose Thalie Dieujuste, 13, was rushed to a hospital, where she died from her injuries, according to WESH. Orange County Sheriff John …
Prosecutors on Friday formally filed murder charges against a man whose estranged wife was found dead last month in his storage unit. Shakeira Rucker, a 37-year-old mom of four, was last seen at a Polk County restaurant on November 11 with Cory Hill, who was arrested the next day after he alleged shot at an …
The mother of a 9-year-old girl found dead in her home on Friday has been arrested for the girl’s murder. Westminster, California, police said Khadiyjah Pendergraph, 32, was taken into custody 20 miles away at a shopping center in Aliso Viejo, KNBC reported. A family member called police shortly before noon on Friday for a …
Florida authorities are charging Cory Hill, whose estranged wife was found shot to death in his storage unit over the weekend, with first degree murder with a firearm. “Detectives will continue building the case in order to bring Shakeira Rucker’s family the justice they seek,” the Orange County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement announcing …
The body of a missing Florida mom was found late Saturday afternoon in a storage unit registered in the name of her estranged husband. Shakeira Rucker, 37, was found dead from apparent gunshot wounds after a strong smell was reported coming from the unit, West Orlando News reported. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office said Cory …
A Florida jury took about 5 hours this week to convict an Orlando man of killing his wife after she refused to appear on a home renovation reality TV show. David Tronnes, 55, was charged with first degree murder in the death of Shanti Cooper-Tronnes, 39, on April 24, 2018, as CrimeOnline reported. Tronnes initially …
