Florida police are investigating a fatal Thanksgiving day shooting that left a 72-year-old man dead in Lauderdale Lakes. The Broward County Sheriff’s Office said deputies were called to the scene in the gated community at about 3:30 p.m. on Thursday and found Hureleyon McLean suffering from a gunshot wound. Paramedics pronounced him dead on the …
A 13-year-old Florida girl reported missing nearly a week ago has been found in south Florida with a man she met online. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said the girl was listed as an endangered missing juvenile after she left her home in Plant City, about 25 miles east of Tampa, early last Saturday morning. …
A 34-year-old Florida mother accused of kidnapping her daughter has been recaptured in Broward County. Arys Martinez and her husband, Jacob Howard, lost their parental rights for baby Amelia, then 8-months-old, in February, and a week later, Howard took the child from a daycare facility and handed her over to her mother, according to WPLG. …
The search for a missing North Carolina woman has moved to Florida after her car was found there this week. The family of Shelby Campbell, 28, has filed missing persons reports in her home state as well as Broward County, Florida, where the car was found, WTVD reports. The station said that Campbell disappeared from …
Florida detectives last week arrested a 53-year-old grandmother for the death of her 11-month-old grandson, who died more than a year ago of an overdose of an antihistamine. Tibina Louissant was taken into custody in Broward County on Friday and charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child. Prosecutors said that two baby bottles filled with …
A Florida sheriff’s department special victims unit detective has been arrested, accused of falsifying information in dozens of sex crimes cases and threatening one victim with deportation. Detective Demetrious Campbell, a 21 year veteran of the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, has been charged with nine counts of official misconduct and one count of extortion, WTVJ …
A Florida woman and a Tennessee man have been arrested for the murder of the woman’s estranged husband, found dead last month in Indian River County. The Broward Sheriff’s Office said that Gianni Coto, 28, went to the home of his wife, 31-year-old Trinity Bownes, on January 21 and got into an argument with her. …
A 15-year-old Florida boy has confessed to shoving an 82-year-old man to the ground before stealing his car last month. The Broward Sheriff’s Department didn’t specify the exact charges. Surveillance videos shows five boys approach the car driven by the elderly man at a gas station in Lauderdale Lakes on November 5, and one of …
A Florida man shot his wife multiple times during an argument on Saturday while the couple’s 5-year-old daughter watched. Edmundo Marin told his twin brother, Vinicio Marin, what he’d done and asked him to take the little girl inside and call 911, WPLG reported. Davie Police officers found Edmundo Marin in his black 2015 Chevrolet …
Two people are dead and two wounded after a shooting on board a Broward County, Florida, Transit bus Thursday afternoon. Three more people were injured in a car crash that came out of the chaos as the bus driver headed down Broward Boulevard to the nearby Fort Lauderdale Police Department, WSVN reported. Investigators said the …
A Florida man who reported his estranged wife missing in early November was arrested last week for her murder. Ernest Gordon, 44, reported Wanda Gordon, 42, missing on November 7, saying he hadn’t seen her in three days. But the Broward County Sheriff’s Office now says they believe Ernest Gordon had already killed Wanda, early …
A Florida woman has been arrested for the 2014 murder of her brother — after investigators uncovered his body buried in the backyard of a Dania Beach home. Darlene Ann Shoff-Brock is being held without bond on a single count of first-degree murder in the death of Donald Marks Shoff, WSVN reported. The Broward County …
