Category: Cops and Crime

Travis M. Butler, of Pensacola, was sentenced Friday to life imprisonment on federal charges of enticing a minor for sexual activity and producing child pornography. Butler pled guilty to the charges during a pretrial conference just two days before his federal jury trial was due…

Read More Florida Man, Registered Sex Offender, Gets Life in Prison For New Child Sex Crimes

Florida Department of Law Enforcement agents, with assistance from the Tri-County Narcotics Task Force and the Florida Highway Patrol, arrested criminal defense attorney Michael Stover, 33, of St. Johns County, Thursday, on one count of the purchase of Adderall, an amphetamine. Stover was admitted to…

Read More Florida Department of Law Enforcement Arrests Criminal Defense Attorney for Purchase of Adderall

Florida woman throws her German Shepherd off a second-floor balcony. I’m literally shaking my head. Motel staff had called police to report that the woman, 35-year-old Allison Murphy, attacked a maid and was threatening to jump from the second floor. By the time police arrived,…

Read More Florida Woman Throws Her Dog Off a Balcony, Police Arrest – Dog Survives

Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Peter Tuccio pleaded guilty before United States Magistrate Judge Steven L. Tiscione to using fire to commit the felony crime of extortion.   When sentenced, Tuccio faces a mandatory sentence of 10 years’ imprisonment, as well as forfeiture,…

Read More FBI: Peter Tuccio, Associate of Gambino Organized Crime Family Pleads Guilty to Arson in Queens

On January 6th, 2021, the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) was contacted in reference to the alleged sexual assault of a patient by a staff member at a local hospital. The victim told the responding deputy, on January 5th and 6th 2021, a registered nurse…

Read More Florida Nurse Arrested, Sexually Assaulted a Patient

TAMPA, Fla. – The Tampa Police Department has released body-worn camera footage of the gunfire exchanges that took place during a 21-hour standoff with armed barricaded subject Renardo Bucklon, early Christmas morning. The following clips are the instances when Bucklon and officers exchanged fire. Bucklon…

Read More Tampa Police Release Bodycam Footage of Shooting Christmas Morning with Barricaded Man

HAINES CITY, Fla. – A Haines City man was arrested on Tuesday for making threatening remarks online about carrying out violence in the nation’s capital. Shannon Badgett, 53, is being charged with communicating a written threat to conduct a mass shooting or act of terrorism.…

Read More Haines City Police Arrest Former Ohio Police Officer for Online Threats of Violence in D.C.

BROOKSVILLE, Fla. – On Monday at 6:45 p.m., Hernando County Sheriff’s deputies responded to 600 Darby Lane in Brooksville to assist Pasco Sheriff’s Office deputies in searching for a wanted subject. Deputies were able to make contact with an individual residing in apartment No. 40…

Read More Brooksville Man Wanted in Pasco County, Receives 18-Stitches Trying to Outrun a Deputy K-9

A South Florida federal grand jury indicted a former federal agent and three other Miami-Dade residents for their alleged roles in an operation that involved illegal Oxycodone distribution, federal witness tampering, and obstruction of justice. The indictment charges Alberico Ahias Crespo, 46, a former Special…

Read More Former Federal Agent and Others Indicted in Florida

TAMPA, Fla. – The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the circumstances that led to a deadly shooting Sunday night in Tampa. On Sunday, January 10, 2021, shortly after 10:00 p.m., deputies responded to reports of shots fired at the Raintree Oaks Apartments located at…

Read More Hillsborough County Sheriff Investigating Deadly Tampa Shooting