Deputies said 44-year-old Panagiotis Karamanlis pulled his sister's hair, held her to the ground and punched her in the face multiple times after they got into an argument over text messages she had sent to her boyfriend.
After a several month investigation regarding the hit and run fatal crash February 27, on I-75 at mm 202 in Sarasota County, FHP troopers have arrested 28-year-old Robert Herrera as the the hit and run driver.
When a knife-wielding Florida woman attempted to rob a Family Dollar store, the cashier said “not today” while another employee locked the door until deputies arrived, authorities say.
Deputies arrested a 30-year-old man, who is already a convicted felon, on drug and weapons charges Thursday night after a traffic stop and brief vehicle pursuit.
The Manatee County Sheriff’s Office are searching for for four black, male, teenagers who committed an armed robbery at a 7-11 store Cortez Road West in Bradenton.
A deputy came out to the scene and made contact with 23-year-old Joseph Valderramma, noticing yellow stains on his shirt as Valderramma told him that he had gotten his vehicle stuck in the woman’s yard.
Deputies say Karter Dale-Erwin Clark, a fourth grade teacher at Neil Armstrong Elementary in the Charlotte County School District, made up a story about being stopped around 9:30am on December 17, 2018.
When the deputy found 41 3-stripe turtles in a “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle” backpack, he asked if Ariel Machan-Le Quire had anything else. She pulled the 1-foot gator from her pants.
Around 1am on August 4, 2019 at the Manatee County Jail, the sheriff's office says 34-year-old Louis Valentin assaulted an inmate while in the Disciplinary Pod Exercise Yard and the incident was caught on camera.
The sheriff’s office says around 2:15am, they were called to Emerald City at 1225 Tamiami Trail for a shooting that left one victim injured. The victim is currently in stable condition.
Police say they were looking for 41-year-old Robert Harrelson on warrants for multiple felonies for drugs and weapons and when they found him around 3pm on Thursday, he took off running near Cranberry Elementary School.
The incident happened around 6:25 a.m. at Gopher Hill Road near Verna Bethany Road in Myakka City. The Lakewood Ranch High School bus was southbound on Verna Bethany and the vehicle was headed northbound.
On Sunday, August 13, 2019, deputies were called to a home where a man reported seeing someone trying to steal a gas can from his carport. When the man confronted the suspect, the suspect fled in a black Lincoln.
Detectives say around 11:45am, they were called to the Treesdale Apartment Complex on the 1800 block of Martin Luther King Jr Avenue East for reports of a deceased person. Detectives say when they arrived, they found 56-year-old Anthony Bernard Wilson dead from what they say was “apparent trauma to
Investigators say a Florida mother was so upset that her children were rezoned to a new school that she threatened to shoot up the new school just as the new academic year is beginning.
Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) is asking for the community’s help in helping identify the suspect who burglarized a business early Monday morning in Sarasota.
Florida wildlife officials say four people, including a mother and son, are facing charges for the theft of 40,000 oysters from a lease belonging to a commercial fishing company.
Four people were arrested and three others are wanted via warrant by the Polk County Sheriff’s Office for stealing credit card information throughout the state and around the nation.
Victor McQueen was arrested Wednesday for animal abuse. The sheriff’s office says the 56-year-old kept four dogs in dilapidated boxes in the rear of a Bradenton home. They were removed from the home last summer.
Troopers say around 3:15pm, 33-year-old Gregory Werner Jr. of Nokomis was driving a semi traveling east on Fruitville in the left lane, approaching a red light at Coburn Road, when he failed to stop, causing a chain reaction crash involving seven other vehicles.
A suspended city commissioner who once ran the Florida Democratic Party pleaded guilty to corruption charges on Tuesday, admitting he accepted money from Uber and undercover FBI agents in exchange for his influence.
Manatee County Sheriff's investigators say Mitchell Helton is charged with two counts of aggravated assault. He was arrested Aug. 3 after the delivery team called the sheriff's office.
U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff sentenced Cesar Sayoc after he pleaded guilty to explosives charges for mailing 16 pipe bombs days before the midterm elections last fall.
The Manatee County Sheriff’s Office says around 3:15 a.m. deputies were called to a robbery at the Speedway Gas Station located at 8604 SR 70 E. Deputies say the suspects walked into the store and tried to distract the clerk by asking him about items behind the counter.
North Port Police say a little before 4 a.m. Saturday four suspects walked into the Circle K located at 1060 Plantation Boulevard near I-75 and stole cartons of cigarettes. Police say they also stole a small amount of cash and change.
On January 17, detectives say 33-year-old Terrance Goss of Tampa entered the Centennial Bank on Fruitville Road near Cattlemen, handed the teller a note demanding cash and then fled the area after receiving the money in the cash drawer.
Sarasota Police say a forensic exam revealed the devices contained more than 800 images of child pornography, including more than 100 images and 45 videos of sexual battery against children from infants to teenagers.
The sheriff's office began investigating in January after receiving a report that 42-year-old Matthew Clippard, a general contractor, had been hired to oversee more than a dozen construction projects throughout Sarasota County but had not been paying or only partially paying third-party vendors.
In May 2018, the sheriff's office was called to a home on Bougainvillea Street in Sarasota where they found the victim dead in his driveway after overdosing on fentanyl, a potent opioid derivative.
The week after Lincoln Memorial Academy’s principal, founder and CEO Eddie Hundley resigned from the school amid controversy surrounding the school’s finances, ABC7 has learned the U.S. Department of Education has opened an investigation.
Deputies say the victim came to the sheriff’s office in June 2019 to report the alleged sexual assault by David Probus when the victim was a young child in 1975.
Over the course of the last month while conducting drug investigations, Sarasota Police say they learned that 28-year-old Jeremy Johnson of Dixie Avenue was allegedly involved in human trafficking.
A Florida man accused of trying to slash a Walmart employee with scissors now faces federal charges after allegedly threatening President Donald Trump while he was being arrested.
On Monday around 5:00 p.m. in the 8200 block of S. Tamiami Trail, deputies say the women left the clothing store with more than $400 in stolen merchandise. They were driving a blue 2007 Toyota Camry.
Around 12:30pm, deputies say they were called to Andrea Cole’s home in response to a domestic disturbance. When they arrived, deputies say they found two children inside a car parked in the driveway.
Bradenton Police say Monday morning, moments before a suspicious package was found at the Publix on Manatee Avenue, someone pulled the store’s fire alarm. The package was spotted and it had a bottle containing an unknown liquid with wires coming out of the bottle.
Deputies say around 3:45am Monday three men walked into the 7-Eleven at 5745 Clark Road in Sarasota and stole merchandise. Just over two hours later, the same men stole items out of an employee’s purse at a second 7-Eleven located at 4400 Clark Road.
Lauren Debenedetta, 40, founded Haven Dance studio in North Port in 2013 and went on trial this week for six sexual crimes including lewd or lascivious conduct, lewd or lascivious molestation, and lewd and lascivious battery.
Detectives say on Thursday, the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office received a report from the little girl’s mother that Bicente Velasquez Morales, 43, a pastor at the House of Restoration Ministry on Pershing Avenue, had sexually battered her daughter.
The two victims who suffered gunshot wounds in the altercation near the Spot 26 nightclub on Monday have been identified as 23-year old Jordon Brown and 23-year-old Troy Keys.
From Nov. 28, 2017 until May 26, 2019, investigators say am IP belonging to Thomas Peltier’s home were used to download, possess and in some cases to even share images and videos of child pornography through the BitTorrent file sharing network.
The sheriff's office conducted Operation Intercept VI, an operation where suspects ranging in ages from 19-65 thought they were communicating with young male and female children after responding to ads on the Internet, but they were actually talking to undercover detectives.
Some people who have been living in the neighborhood behind the club have been for years and some even decades told us that they refuse to let the ongoing police calls, shootings and disturbances run them out of their homes.
A 39-year-old Navy Chief is accused of traveling from Jacksonville to Sarasota County in order to have sex with a person he believed to be 14-years-old.
On Tuesday, July 23, troopers say 43-year-old Jack Knapper rear ended a Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office detective in an unmarked vehicle while the detective was stopped at a red light on Bruce B Downs Boulevard, just south of Commerce Palms Boulevard.
Deputies were called to the bar Monday after learning a fight broke out. An investigation revealed a shooting took place near Spot 26 at an address a few hundred feet from the bar and two victims were found at Manatee Memorial Hospital with gunshot wounds.
Detectives say Charles Andrews, who was working as a minister at the Osprey Church of Christ, lived at the home and had downloaded more than 500 images of child porn, including at least 50 depicting sexual battery of a child.
Deputies say that 26-year-old Jacob Hisel was walking along U.S. 41 North and heading south on the side of the road when they spotted him on Saturday. Deputies say they stopped Hisel because he was walking in the roadway and were concerned he could get hit by a vehicle.
