JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – An 18-year-old man was arrested after allegedly stealing more than $800 in merchandise from a store at St. Johns Town Center while carrying a loaded handgun equipped with a device capable of converting it into a fully automatic weapon, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office (JSO). Je’CaryousContinue Reading
WALTON COUNTY, Fla. – A 25-year-old Mossy Head man was arrested Friday, Oct. 16, 2026, after deputies say he shot another man in the ear with a rifle-style pellet gun following an argument over missing money from a gas station tip jar. D. Aaron Chance Taylor, 25, was charged withContinue Reading
CLAY COUNTY, Fla. – A 14-year-old Clay High School student has been arrested after investigators determined he was responsible for writing a school shooting threat on a bathroom wall and then reporting it to school administrators, according to the Clay County Sheriff’s Office. The threat, reported Oct. 5, 2026, warnedContinue Reading
PUTNAM COUNTY, Fla. – A 32-year-old San Mateo woman has been sentenced to life in prison for the 2024 murder of a man whose body was dragged by a horse, submerged in a pond and later buried in a shallow grave on a farm in Hastings. Caylen Suvanna Deller, 32,Continue Reading
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – A Volusia County man has been sentenced to 45 years in prison after attacking a 13-year-old boy with a box cutter near the Daytona Beach Boardwalk, leaving the child with a neck wound that required 13 stitches. 44-year-old Jermaine Lynn Long received the sentence Thursday, Oct.Continue Reading
FLAGLER COUNTY, Fla. – A Flagler County jury has found a woman guilty of vehicular homicide and reckless driving causing serious bodily injury after prosecutors said she deliberately jerked the steering wheel during an argument with her boyfriend while traveling at 94 mph on Interstate 95, causing a crash thatContinue Reading
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – An 18-year-old man was arrested Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026, in connection with an alleged sexual battery at a northwest Gainesville residence after investigators used license plate reader technology to identify a blue Tesla associated with the suspect. The Alachua County Sheriff’s Office identified the suspect as LakshyaContinue Reading
ALACHUA COUNTY, Fla. – A 42-year-old man was arrested Wednesday night, Oct. 14, 2026, after deputies say he assaulted a senior citizen at a residence and later barricaded himself inside a vehicle at a gas station, prompting deputies to deploy a K-9 and use a Taser to take him intoContinue Reading
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — An off-duty Jacksonville Fire Rescue Department (JFRD) firefighter turned a weekend birthday outing into a life-saving rescue after swimming out to save three young boaters stranded in open water off Big Talbot Island, department officials announced. Firefighter Otto Scherick was off duty and walking a nature trailContinue Reading
DELAND, Fla. — A 20-time convicted felon and his girlfriend have been arrested in connection with a high-value residential burglary after leaving behind a beeping GPS ankle monitor at the crime scene, according to the Volusia Sheriff’s Office (VSO). David Robitaille, who had previously performed landscaping work for the seniorContinue Reading