The investigation began in October 2018, when detectives say they connected 44-year-old Jennifer Lambert sale and distribution of meth in Nokomis. Detectives say Lambert, who has drug arrests dating back to 2013, is known as “Mama Jen” and has been selling drugs for more than a decade.
Public Information Officer Genevieve Judge said, “Criminals will go and pull on door handles and then if one is open, they will rummage through your car."
Deputies say they were called to 5737 Clark Rd. after 2:45am Wednesday and found three people with gunshot wounds who’d been involved in a fight. They were transported to Sarasota Memorial Hospital and deputies say the injuries were not life-threatening.
Now, more than a decade later, it’s possible Joseph Smith will be moved off of death row. Smith has appealed his sentence, arguing it’s no longer valid.
The sheriff's office was called on Friday, May 17 by a person who believed their relative, 29-year-old Jennalee Anderson, had stolen items from her family's home and was in the process of pawning them at a local pawn shop.
Just after 8:30pm on Monday, the sheriff's office received a call from a person who said he saw a young girl, between 8- and 10-years old, near a wooded area off Lorraine Road. The caller said the child appeared to be in distress before she ran away and that he saw a man follow her into the woods.
Stephen Roa of Plant City was sentenced Monday to life in prison after being convicted of lewd or lascivious molestation, use of a computer to entice a child to commit a sex act, traveling to entice a child to commit a sex act and failure of sex offender to report internet identifier.
As people arrived at the target home in southern Sarasota County last week, detectives were waiting to see if they were licensed, registered, and if they had the insurance coverage required to perform the work.
Investigators say Juliana Cote posted a picture to Facebook that included what turned out to be a fake firearm and made a threat of violence against an elementary school. Cote lives near Egypt Lake Elementary School.
Larry Scott, 65, has been charged with first-degree murder and kidnapping in the 1972 death of North Carolina woman Bonnie Neighbors. Scott made his first court appearance this week.
Learn to Fish Recovery Center is a place where some local women come to seek help from drug addiction, but the owner, 54-year-old Sabrina Sweeney, now needs help of her own to fight drug charges after being arrested on May 9.
Deputies were called to Kyles Jones’ home Tuesday by his girlfriend, who is living with him. She told deputies not only was she abruptly woken up by being slapped in the face with a cheeseburger but that Jones also pulled her hair and kicked her down the stairs.
On Monday, May 6, 2019, a security camera caught these suspects stealing a Kubota utility vehicle, golf cart, power tools and lawn equipment the Mount Vernon neighborhood.
A North Port man is behind bars after Cape Coral Police say he intentionally crashed into another vehicle while driving recklessly under the influence.
There was a heavy police presence at Fruitville and Honore Friday night after a man walked into the fast food restaurant around 10:15pm with a pistol and demanded money from the employees, later fleeing on foot.
Deputies say around 11am a 14-year-old boy put a knife blade to another student’s ribs and told him, “This is a robbery.” The victim ran away in fear and immediately told the school’s student resource officer.
Sheriff’s deputies rushed into a high school and arrested an 18-year-old student after photos posted on Snapchat showed him holding a gun with the caption “no school tomorrow?”
Authorities say a 73-year-old man shot his wife in the face inside their Florida home, and then walked to a neighbor’s house and confessed that he’d killed her.
Police are currently looking for the driver of a vehicle involved in a hit-and-run incident that occurred at the Suntrust Bank downtown on April 11th at around 11:30 a.m.
Troopers say the driver of the Dodge Ram truck was leaving "La Tienda De Los Primos" and crossed the southbound lanes of US 17, right in the path of a motorcycle driven by 82-year-old James Berry of Winterhaven.
Bradenton’s NAACP president, Rodney Jones was arrested after running out of time for public comment at a city council meeting and refusing to leave the podium.
Police say 20-year-old Juan Ortiz-Rivera was caught on surveillance video burglarizing several unlocked cars. Police say they caught him in the act Tuesday night as he was trying to break into several cars in downtown Sarasota.
Sarasota County deputies say he's a person of interest in the burglaries of four homes in the Village Run and Chestnut Creek communities between April 26-29. The burglar uses a crow bar to pry open door frames before stealing electronics, cash and jewelry.
A suspect was taken into custody on Friday after a tip to Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers alerted detectives with the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office to his possible involvement.
Deputies have released motorcycle helmet camera video from a crash earlier this year in Pinellas County which shows the dangers of when some motorcyclists choose to drive recklessly.
Investigators say the mother didn't know about the abuse. It was discovered when she brought the girl to the hospital for treatment of ringworm, which turned out to be burns.
We would ask you to be on the lookout, but if you see this man in his blue bonnet and a long red and purple flowered dress, there’s almost no way you can miss him.
Members of the Special Investigations Unit and Special Response Team conducted a search warrant on Wednesday morning for drug activity on Herbison Avenue.
The Manatee County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) has completed an investigation into an excessive force incident involving former Corrections Deputy, 21-year-old Tyler LeMond.
Kenneth Adams, 33, and Brittaney Williams, 25, were arrested Thursday afternoon and each charged with two counts of Aggravated Abuse and Neglect of a Child with Great Bodily Harm and two counts of Aggravated Abuse and Neglect of a Child without Great Bodily Harm.
In January 2018, Chad Kolberg was left home alone with his ex-girlfriend’s Shi Tzu mix named Tinkerbelle following a fight. That’s when investigators say Kolberg stomped on the dog.
Police rushed to Regal Cinemas after people inside the theater fled when Ryan Nolan MacFarlane, 27, allegedly stood up while wearing a backpack shouting that "this bomb will be the end."
Court records show that a federal jury in Orlando found 57-year-old Robert Francis Pratersch guilty Tuesday of threatening a federal official and interstate transmission of a threat to injure. He faces up to 15 years in prison at a July 16 sentencing.
Around 6am, an armed robbery was reported at the Circle K located at Tamiami Trail and Aqui Esta Drive in Punta Gorda. Then 15 minutes later, another armed robbery was reported at the Marathon Gas Station located at the corner of Edgewater Drive and Bayshore Road in Port Charlotte.
Two men reported what happened and there were at least two boys in the changing room at the time. Both boys reported inappropriate behavior when interviewed by deputies.
K9 Ladybird and her partner, Detective Cody Forbus, went to the unnamed facility on April 24 and found a package that K9 Ladybird detected drugs in heading to an address in Punta Gorda under the name “Heidi Colon.”
Deputies in Charlotte County were looking for a man earlier this week who broke into the business office of Custom Pools by Precision on Tamiami Trail in Port Charlotte on Saturday, April 27.
Detectives with the Johnston County Sheriff’s Office in North Carolina re-opened the murder case of Bonnie Neighbors in 2007. Neighbors was on her way to pick up her 7-year-old son from school in December 1972 when she disappeared.
Mario Guerrero, 50, was arrested in June 2017 after detectives discovered he had been transmitting child porn onto the web through a peer-to-peer file sharing service for almost a year. He was convicted Tuesday of 10 counts of possession of child porn.
Sabrina Fisher, 34, allegedly made the phony bills in DeSoto County and then transported them throughout Florida. She was arrested last July and charged with Making or Possessing Instruments for Forging Bills and Forging Bank Bills.
Florida Highway Patrol officials say 22-year-old Travis Duane Lovett of Bushnell, FL tried to run over two Citrus County Sheriff’s deputies after they tried to pull him over around 9:30am Sunday.
Deputies in DeSoto County say Monday night two people, 22-year-old Francine Olson and 24-year-old Brandon Reyes, went to the sheriff's office and buzzed the jail entrance intercom, telling staff that they were "new detectives" in an apparent attempt to spring their "partner."
The crime was committed on November 14, 2017 and investigated by Manatee County Sheriff’s Office. Prosecutors say Omar Simmons admitted repeatedly stabbing a man sleeping in his car at a gas station in Manatee County.
The investigation into the death of 58-year-old Deborah Campbell began in July 2017. EMTs were called to her home on reports she was in medical distress but on arriving found Campbell dead.
A jury convicted David Vickers, 33, of second degree murder and neglect of a child with great bodily harm. He faces a minimum mandatory sentence of life as a prison releasee reoffender.
It happened Sunday night on the 1300 block 14th Street. Police say the circumstances around the fight remain under investigation, but Leon Middleton, 56, is charged with aggravated battery a deadly weapon.
Police were called to East Price Boulevard and Hay Place around 11:40pm after a bicyclist was struck by a pickup truck. The bicyclist was seriously injured and had to be flown to the hospital via Bayflight under a trauma alert.
The girlfriend told deputies 37-year-old Felipe Oquendo thought she was cheating on him with a man he thought he saw in the mattress at their Fort Walton Beach home.
EMS and fire personnel were called to a home on the 13000 block of Tamiami Trail in North Port around 4:30 a.m. on August 24, 2018 for reports of a deceased person.
Authorities say a 38-year-old youth pastor at a now defunct South Florida church coerced a girl into having sex with him by threatening to turn her family in to immigration officials.
Orlando Valenzuela was 15-years-old when he was called to bring a gun to a fight between rival gangs in a Bradenton neighborhood on 5th Street West on May 21, 2007.
A former Florida police officer was sentenced to 25 years in prison Thursday for the fatal on-duty shooting of a black musician whose SUV had broken down after a late-night concert.
The State Attorney’s Office is additionally charging Jarrel Carter with resisting arrest without violence, saying he resisted arrest from as many as six detectives, which is not shown in the video Carter gave to media outlets.
