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A 76-year-old Sunny Isles Beach woman was left battered and bloodied after a man who lives in her building broke into her unit while nude and beat her over the weekend, according to police. Marco Tulio Russi, 43, is now facing a charge of burglary with assault or battery, a first-degree felony following his arrest in connection with Sunday’s incident, which happened at a building at 17000 N. Bay Road. His case is separate from that of 37-year-old Serghei Tcaciuc, who’s

Miami-Dade police arrested a doctor on Monday for fleeing the scene of a crash in the parking lot of a Chase Bank in the Westchester area, authorities said. The crash took place on May 15, when police responded to a call of a hit-and-run with injuries involving two people at the bank branch at 8700 SW 24th St., authorities said. According to his arrest report, the doctor, Armando Pineda Velez, 72, of Coral Springs, admitted to being the driver on

Bradenton Beach police arrested Christopher Corso, 56, of Bradenton, June 14 for allegedly driving under the influence, failure to use a designated lane and possession of an open container in a motor vehicle. Responding to reports of an erratic driver, Bradenton Beach Police Officer Ryan Gagliano initiated a traffic stop at Gulf Drive and Cortez Road and spoke with Corso, who exhibited signs of impairment, according to a police report. Also, the officer reported that he observed what appeared to

A woman who was armed with a knife is dead after a Miami Police shooting in Edgewater late Tuesday night, officials said. The shooting happened around 10:30 p.m. in the area of Northeast 2nd Avenue and 25th Street, the Miami Police Department said. The woman’s landlord identified her as Mariel Rivera Samuels. “She was very respectful with me,” Octavio Pino said. “She always paid her rent.” Hamid Hamidi told NBC6 the incident unfolded after he came home and found his roommate

Police are searching for two suspects in a drive-by shooting in Miramar that left a man dead a day after his 20th birthday.  Miramar Police said they are looking for Jameel Blemur, 23, in the fatal shooting of Ernst Valcourt, 20, back in March. Police said Tuesday that Blemur is accused of first-degree murder after detectives followed up on leads in Pembroke Pines. It was unclear what new details authorities may have uncovered there, but an investigation could be seen underway

Photo by: Volusia Sheriffs Office Two people were injured after a small plane crashed in DeLand Wednesday afternoon, officials said.  The crash happened around 3 p.m. off Lake Molly Avenue near DeLand.  Two people were onboard the plane and were conscious and alert when officials arrived at the scene.  They were taken to an area hospital as trauma alerts, officials said.  “I was in the ‘man cave,’ I was just tweaking something on my computer, and I heard a sound

A Manatee County man was arrested after deputies say they proved he left his six-year-old child in a hot parked car, killing her. Markise L. Outing, 24, brought a child to a Southern Manatee Fire Department station in Bradenton on May 20, seeking medical attention for the child, according to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office.  Paramedics found the child unconscious, not breathing, and possibly in cardiac arrest. They attempted life-saving measures before taking her to a local hospital for advanced care. She was pronounced dead

A man in Arcadia has been arrested after police say he exposed himself to a minor and took photos of a woman wearing a skirt as she shopped. According to a post from the Arcadia Police Department, officers received multiple complaints about a man exposing himself and acting suspiciously while at three businesses. After an investigation, 36-year-old Johnathan McKeel was arrested for lewd or lascivious exhibition on a victim less than 16 years old and video voyeurism. The Arcadia police department worked with

A 25-year-old woman turned herself in at the Broward County jail on Tuesday to face a felony charge after police said she killed a bicyclist in a hit-and-run crash near her home in Plantation back in 2022. According to Plantation police, the crash happened just before 7:40 p.m. on Sept. 7, 2022, in the 400 block of North Hiatus Road. An arrest report states that Emily Fasano, then 23, was driving her 2017 Jeep Renegade when she hit the victim,

A Cape Coral man was arrested on Tuesday after being accused of sexually battering a child. According to the Cape Coral Police Department, James Tabor, 47, began doing this when she was 7 years old. Tabor had a felony warrant for lewd and lascivious molestation issued by detectives at the Cape Coral Police Department and approved by the State Attorney’s Office. The United States Marshals Service Florida/Caribbean Regional Fugitive Task Force and Fort Myers Office began an investigation to find

The driver involved in a deadly Wednesday morning hit-and-run crash that killed a moped rider has turned himself in, the Fort Pierce Police Department (FPPD) indicated in an update. FPPD posted onto its Facebook page around noon that officers were looking for the driver of a Honda Civic that was involved in the wreck. In a late afternoon update, the police department reported the driver was in custody. The update did not identify the driver, nor did it include any possible charges

A St. Lucie County Sheriff’s deputy is in the hospital after she was in a T-bone crash on Wednesday morning.  According to Sheriff Keith Pearson, deputies were responding to another crash, located at Indrio and Old Dixie Road, at around 10:30 a.m.  As deputies cleared the intersection to travel through another vehicle T-boned the deputy’s vehicle as they were attempting to respond to the first crash.  The preliminary investigation by the sheriff’s office revealed that the vehicle did not use