News outlets report 22-year-old Austin Wyatt Altman was arrested Saturday on charges including sexual battery on a child and violating probation. Pasco County deputies say Altman picked her up from her house on Saturday and brought her back to his Spring Hill home, where he assaulted her.
The driver of the Ford Mustang was injured and had to be taken to the hospital while the driver of the Jeep Cherokee, despite having a blown out back tire and significant damage, fled.
A Florida man who was found nude inside a plumbing business is facing charges after being accused of using a forklift and a hammer to wreak havoc before taking a shower there.
Officers are currently on the scene on the 1200 block of 32nd Street where an elderly man and woman were found dead. Police say their preliminary investigation appears this is a murder-suicide and that the public is not in any danger.
Police say that the incident took place on September 10th, in the 4800 block of 51st Street West. According to police, the girl told her mother about having sex with three different men and the girl’s mother reported the incident to police on Sunday, October 13.
On Saturday, October 12, the sheriff’s office was called to a home in Port Charlotte where a man found two chainsaws had been stolen overnight from a toolbox in his vehicle.
Police say a person with a gunshot wound has been located but there’s no active shooter at a Boca Raton mall that had been placed on a lockdown after reports of shots fired.
Police say around 1 a.m. Saturday morning, units responded to a home on the 5000 block of Lady Slipper Avenue for a family disturbance and reports of shots being fired inside the house.
Around 7:30 p.m., troopers say a man driving a white-colored Chevrolet Van was driving westbound on State Road 70, approaching the driveway of the Wells Fargo Bank on the 400 block of 53rd Avenue West.
The sheriff’s office says Dwight Bainbridge and his girlfriend, 39-year-old Jessica Brambilla, kept a teen-aged girl locked in her bedroom in a Sarasota home for more than a year.
On Monday evening, police in Palmetto were alerted that a Snapchat post was circulating on social media threatening a school shooting at Palmetto High School the next day.
Circuit Judge Joseph Bulone called 49-year-old Michael Drejka a "wanna-be" law enforcement officer and a self-appointed "handicapped parking space monitor."
Steven Moretti, 28, a man who lives in the home, was later booked into the Sarasota County Jail on multiple charges, including 20 counts of possessing obscene material involving children.
North Port Police say over the past five days, they've had nearly 30 reports of vehicle break-ins all across the city and in every single case the vehicles had been left unlocked.
Around 8pm Tuesday, the sheriff’s office says 23-year-old Tevin Hickson-Johnson went to his mother’s home on 31st Avenue East Side B and got into a fight with her boyfriend, 54-year-old Stewart Wallace.
In October 2018, the Ventura County Sheriff's Office in California was told by a 16-year-old girl that she was being blackmailed by a person she believed to be a 17-year-old black teen on Snapchat that she had been speaking with over the past year.
Around 9pm on December 16, 2018 in Arcadia in DeSoto County, troopers say 60-year-old William Roberts of Lake Placid, Florida turned left onto Northwest Pearce Street off State Road 72 in front of a motorcycle driven by Justin Peachey of Myakka City.
Some of his victims were on the margins of society. Many were originally deemed overdoses, or attributed to accidental or undetermined causes. Some bodies were never found.
Deputies were called to an area near Grace Baptist Church on Bee Ridge Road Saturday morning after two girls told their parents that they were walking through a trail in the woods behind the church when a man yelled to them, "Hey girls, come here."
An arrest affidavit says Joseph Bernard J. Combs was arrested Friday on charges that include attempted murder, sexual battery aggravated assault and kidnapping. He remains jailed on a $3.5 million bond.
Officials say a Florida woman tried to avoid shoplifting charges by climbing into the ceiling of a Big Lots store, leading deputies on a five-hour search.
A warrant was issued for Lillian Parks last week and she has now been taken into police custody and transported to the Manatee County Jail for processing after being released for a local medical center on Friday afternoon.
Around 7:30pm Thursday, the manager of a Big Lots store in Port Charlotte called the sheriff's office when she suspected a woman was shoplifting. The manager told deputies that a woman had gone to the restroom with a shopping cart full of items and when the manager went to check on her, she found ga
Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said Friday that Michelle Louise Kolts was arrested shortly after midnight and charged with 24 counts of making a destructive device with the intent to do bodily harm or property damage, a second-degree felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison.
A judge sentenced Deandre Somerville to the jail time, plus one year on probation and 150 hours of community service after he failed to serve on a jury Aug. 21. Somerville was released Sunday and has a hearing scheduled Friday.
The sheriff’s office put out photos of the suspect and say tips on social media evidence led them to 27-year-old Joseph McQuillen and his wife, 26-year-old Lindsey McQuillen. Deputies say they found the pair were working together and pawning items.
Deputies say Daniel Jacobo and 28-year-old Devon Nelson went into the victim's bedroom, caused a considerable amount of damage to the room, beat up and stabbed the victim and forced him to sign over two vehicle titles to Jacobo.
Neither driver was injured, but deputies say one of the drivers, 27-year-old Kimberly Toomey, smelled of alcohol and appeared to be drunk. Deputies say she was dropping paperwork, swaying on her feet and walked into her car's bumper while trying to walk to the front of the car.
The sheriff’s office says around 4pm last Thursday, September 26, they were called to Starlite Lane and Ocean Boulevard in Port Charlotte where neighbors said an injured man had been seen walking along the streets.
Deputies were called to the 4200 block of 26th Street West when someone reported a suspicious person. When they arrived, deputies say they say Amy Cliatt kicking a church’s door repeatedly while she was screaming after an unknown person.
Weeks ago, Sarasota Sheriff Tom Knight updated and released a list of 15 apps every parent should know about. Some well known like Snapchat, Bumble, TikTok. But now he’s adding six additional platforms a group of men used to communicate with children.
Police say that the child’s parent provided a sworn statement to the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office that Kimberly Brazell called his work phone on Monday, Sept. 23 and told him, “You’re going to make this right or I’m going to kill your kid at his school.”
A jury convicted Wilfredo Erazo-Turcios on two counts sexual assault upon a child between 12 and 18 years old years of age by a person in familial or custodial authority.
The sheriff’s office says the four-day operation had men ranging in ages from 21 to 77 allegedly responding to internet ads, apps and social media sites. The suspects believed they were speaking to minors, according to the sheriff’s office.
The sheriff's office received information that the Texas teen may be traveling to Sarasota County with a large amount of heroin. On Monday, deputies say they saw the teen getting on the bus and made contact with him when he got off the bus.
The sheriff's office is thanking the community for coming forward and providing anonymous tips that they say led to the arrest of two people responsible for the murder of 26-year-old Christopher Ramos.
Dwight Bainbridge is wanted on charged of lewd or lascivious molestation, aggravated child abuse and sexual battery of a minor. He’s described as white, 6′ tall and around 220 pounds, with brown hair and eyes.
“I said, ‘Grams, it doesn’t look like he’s breathing,’" Yvonne Parks recalled. “And that’s when she said clear as day, ‘Because he’s not.’ And I said, ‘What do you mean he’s not? Like what are you talking about?’ And she said, ‘Oh, I’m doing us both in, we’re going together.’”
Police say they were found during a proactive gas pump search in the City of Sarasota, where police and officials from the Department of Agriculture checked all 17 gas stations.
News outlets report Malachi Love-Robinson, known as "Dr. Love," was released Monday, about 20 months into his 3.5-year sentence. He was given credit for time served before his sentencing. Authorities have said Love-Robinson illegally practiced medicine out of a West Palm Beach office and even treate
The teen told the sheriff’s office that she was kept locked in her room, only being let out to use the bathroom twice a day and only allowed to bathe once each week. The teen said she was only given two meals a day of oatmeal, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, water and multivitamins.
Deven Morris is being charged with Attempted Murder, Armed Robbery with a Firearm, Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon and Use of a Firearm During the Commission of a Felony. Police had been searching for days for the suspect who robbed a victim walking home from the store, shooting him in
James Griffin Jr., 17, was sentenced Friday to shooting and killing Drevian Mays in Newtown in March. Griffin plead no contest to manslaughter in July.
Police say the 14-year-old student was showing off the weapon to other students at Lincoln Memorial Academy in Palmetto. That was reported to teachers, who took the gun away without incident. No injuries were reported.
Lauren Debenedetta, 40, founded Haven Dance studio in North Port in 2013 and was sentenced Friday for six sexual crimes including lewd or lascivious conduct, lewd or lascivious molestation, and lewd and lascivious battery.
Michael Clemons, 22, will be on probation for a year, have to complete 100 hours of community service, pay court costs and make a $250 donation to the Wildlife Alert Fund after pleading guilty.
Between August 2016 and July 2018, Tammy Marie Steffen of Holiday, Fla. created at least 369 Instagram accounts and 18 email accounts to plague her former colleagues with emails and messages, as well as using several phones numbers to send text messages and make phone calls.
Daniel McMahon, 31, of Brandon, Florida, was indicted in Virginia on charges that include bias-motivated interference with a candidate for elective office. McMahon was arrested near Tampa, Florida, after his indictment was unsealed, according to Justice Department spokeswoman Kelly Laco.
Around 9am on Wednesday, September 11, police were called to the Bradenton Village Apartments on 15th Avenue Circle West where they found a man shot once in the chest inside of an apartment. Detectives quickly determined the unit he was in was not where he was shot.
Amado Alexander Zeppi was taken into custody by deputies from the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office, who say evidence places Zeppi at the scene and as the person who shot and killed 23-year-old Mohammed Hamed during a robbery at the Green Galaxy Smoke Shop on the 3000 block of 1st Street West around 1
The State Attorney's Office in Jacksonville announced Wednesday that Donald Hugh Davidson Jr. had waived his right to a jury trial after pleading guilty to charges of first-degree murder, attempted sexual battery on a child over 12, lewd and lascivious molestation, kidnapping and grand theft.
Felipe Vázquez is charged with statutory sexual assault, unlawful contact with a minor and corruption of minors, all felonies, and a misdemeanor count of indecent assault of a person under 16 years old.
Brianna Gross, 18, was arrested last week. Deputies pulled her over and say she was driving without a license in a vehicle with an expired tag and they found used narcotics paraphernalia and a concealed, loaded .380 caliber pistol in her vehicle.
Deputies say it happened around 9am Wednesday and they were called to the scene by the victim, who told them he had been shot by two black men driving a gold-colored Nissan Altima before he crashed his SUV into a home.
Since the beginning of this year, police say there have been 296 vehicle burglaries in the city and 255 of those, or 86 percent, involved vehicles that were left unlocked by their owners. As a result, 10 firearms were stolen.
Tuesday morning, officers raided a home on Waltrip Street, afterwards putting up this sign that reads, "This drug house closed for business, courtesy of the North Port Police Department."
Around 11pm on Tuesday, deputies were called by Mohammed Hamed’s brother, who said he was checking in on the Green Galaxy Smoke Shop on the 3000 block of 1st Street West through the business’s remote video surveillance and could see two people with guns pointed at his brother.
Deputies say around 9pm on Sunday, 22-year-old James Lamar Mitchell came to the victim’s home on Maple Hollow Court, knocked on her door and asked the victim for a glass of water. The victim refused and Mitchell left.
Felipe Vázquez was taken into custody Tuesday morning by Pennsylvania State Police on one count of computer pornography/solicitation of a child and one count of providing obscene material to minors. Both charges are felonies. His arraignment was scheduled for Tuesday afternoon.
The sheriff's office says on Saturday, a man saw 56-year-old Duane Steele panhandling on the corner of U.S. 301 and Erie Road and declined to give him any money.
The sheriff's office says it was stolen last Friday around 5:45am from the 400 block of 28th Avenue West and contained thousands of dollars worth of audio and musical equipment.
