OCALA, Fla. – A 41-year-old man was sentenced to life in prison Thursday after a jury convicted him of the 2023 premeditated murder of a 56-year-old Marion County man who was found shot multiple times. Jurors found Joseph Edwards Horrighs guilty of First-Degree Premeditated Murder on August 27, 2026, followingContinue Reading
CROSS CITY, FL — A Florida man has been sentenced to life in prison following his conviction on multiple felony counts of child sexual abuse in the Third Judicial Circuit, law enforcement officials announced Thursday. Donald Pick was sentenced on Thursday, July 30, 2026, after a six-person jury found himContinue Reading
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Ponte Vedra man has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison for trafficking firearms, making false statements during firearm purchases and conspiring to distribute cocaine and other controlled substances. U.S. District Judge Harvey E. Schlesinger sentenced Braden Huston Hobbs, 28, after he was convicted ofContinue Reading
PENSACOLA, Fla. – A Niceville man has been sentenced to six years in federal prison after admitting to operating a fraudulent investment scheme that defrauded victims of millions of dollars and laundering the proceeds through real estate and cryptocurrency transactions. Sidney Marc Wilson Jr., 48, was sentenced on convictions forContinue Reading
SANFORD, FL — A 23-year-old Orlando man has been sentenced to five years in state prison followed by three years of sex offender probation after being convicted at trial of traveling to meet a minor for sex, prosecutors announced. Elesen Alexis was sentenced on Friday, July 24, 2026, by SeminoleContinue Reading
SANFORD, FL — A 25-year-old Casselberry man who filmed himself sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl and later attempted to hire a hitman from inside jail to murder the victim, prosecutor, and lead detective has been sentenced to life in prison, authorities announced. Talil M. Vann was sentenced on Monday, JulyContinue Reading
BUNNELL, Fla. – A Flagler County jury took just 20 minutes to convict a man of first-degree murder after a two-day trial in the 2024 stabbing death of his wife outside their home. The jury, consisting of 10 women and two men, found Jermaine Williams Sr. guilty as charged ofContinue Reading
DAYTONA BEACH, FL — A repeat sex offender who attempted to abduct a 7-year-old girl inside a Daytona Beach retail store has been sentenced to 30 years in state prison, where he must serve his time “day for day” under Florida’s recidivism laws. 56-year-old Timmothy Hall was found guilty byContinue Reading
TAMPA, Fla. A Lakeland man who admitted to illegally possessing the firearm used in a 2020 Christmas Eve shootout that killed a 70-year-old grandmother and wounded three others has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison, federal prosecutors announced. U.S. District Judge Kathryn Mizelle sentenced 29-year-old Taqiy Lewis ofContinue Reading
OCALA, FL — A 57-year-old registered sex offender who brazenly told an undercover detective that he was “grooming” them has been sentenced to life in federal prison without the possibility of parole. Trevor Hedge, of Ocala, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Thomas P. Barber following his conviction by aContinue Reading