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Martin County sheriff’s deputies are asking for the public’s help in identifying a vehicle they said was involved in a hit-and-run crash of a teenager. The 15-year-old boy was riding his bicycle near the Cumberland Farms on N.E. Savannah Road in Jensen Beach Wednesday night. According to the sheriff’s office, the vehicle of interest was captured on surveillance footage, which appears to be a silver SUV, possibly a Hyundai Santa Fe or similar. The driver is described as a white

 A Pensacola father has been arrested after his 1-year-old boy drowned in a bathtub Thursday. Marc Basulto, 21, is charged with aggravated manslaughter involving the death of a child. Deputies were called to a home on Shoal Creek Drive for a cardiac arrest involving a 1-year-old child. According to the sheriff’s office, investigation revealed that Basulto was alone in his home with his two children. He put his 1-year-old in a bathtub with the water running. “Basulto then took medication

Rapper Sean Kingston was arrested in California on fraud charges Thursday, several hours after a SWAT team raided his rented South Florida mansion and carted away a van load of items. The Broward County Sheriff’s Office said Kingston was arrested without incident on a Florida warrant in the area of Fort Irwin, an Army base in the desert about 150 miles (240 kilometers) northeast of Los Angeles. Earlier in the day, Broward detectives arrested his 61-year-old mother, Janice Turner, during the raid

Photo by: Local10 One person was killed and another was taken to a local hospital in critical condition after a two-vehicle crash in North Miami Thursday afternoon, according to police. Fire rescue dispatch records show the crash happened at around 3:30 p.m. at the corner of Northwest 122nd Street and Seventh Avenue. Video from Sky 10 shows two silver vehicles rolled over onto the sidewalk and into the parking lot of 12190 NW Seventh Ave. Officials from Miami-Dade Fire Rescue

 An investigation is underway after dozens of ducks were found shot to death in a Florida neighborhood within a matter of days, causing worry among residents. The dead ducks have been popping up in the Keystone Point neighborhood in North Miami, and according to NBC affiliate WTVJ, residents are “extremely concerned.” Kaplan Marchena and other residents have joined forces to find the culprit by documenting the incidents, taking pictures of the ducks and reporting them to authorities. “I mean, it’s pretty

A woman was arrested after she led Florida Highway Patrol troopers on a pursuit that ended in front of the Broward Sheriff’s Office Public Safety Building. According to FHP, the woman, who was behind the wheel of a 2013 black Cadillac Sedan, was driving recklessly eastbound on State Road 84 as it entered the Turnpike, Thursday afternoon. At around 2:30 p.m, investigators said, she then did a U-turn to travel westbound on State Road 84 and crashed into a gray

Photo by: wsvn A large boat went up in flames early Friday morning in Sweetwater, prompting a response from firefighters. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue was called to the scene at Southwest Second Street and 102nd Court shortly after 4 a.m. where a boat was stored near a house. Crews were able to extinguish the fire, but the boat was left completely charred. The flames did not appear to cause any significant damage to the home. Officials confirmed that no one was

A driver was killed in a police pursuit in St. Johns County at 5:20 p.m. Thursday. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, a St. Johns County deputy was pursuing a 36-year-old from Palm Coast, who was driving an SUV. The SUV hit spike strips at U.S. 1 and Shores Boulevard, then hit a pickup and overturned several times. The driver was ejected from the SUV and died at the scene. FHP says the driver was not wearing a seatbelt. The driver of

Photo by: NBC Miami Authorities responded after a car ended up in a canal off the Florida’s Turnpike in Miami-Dade Friday morning. The incident happened just west of the Turnpike and north of Southwest 8th Street. Aerial footage showed the car completely submerged in the canal. Miami-Dade Police and Florida Highway Patrol troopers were seen assisting two women on the side of the water. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue officials said divers were in the water searching for anyone else who may

 Late for work and allegedly driving nearly five times over the legal limit, a 25-year-old woman T-boned a vehicle, claiming the life of a wife and mother of three at a Winter Springs intersection. The “horrific” crash has not only led to serious DUI charges, but also a heartfelt plea from Chief of Police Matt Tracht to avoid drinking and driving, especially over the upcoming Memorial Day holiday.  Asnubil Escobar, a bartender and restaurant manager in Sanford, was arrested at her home on

One man has died, and another is in custody following a shooting in a Florida middle school parking lot, according to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies said the shooting happened near North Marion Middle School in Citra shortly before 7 p.m.  The suspect, 34-year-old Roderick Kelvin Watson Jr., was arrested and charged with second degree murder with a firearm and is being held with no bond, according to deputies.  The victim was identified as 32-year-old Joseph James Juarez Coles. 

A pedestrian was hit and killed by a car while trying to cross a street on Thursday morning, according to police. The Tampa Police Department responded to the crash on Nebraska Avenue just after 5:30 a.m. Officials said a man in his late 20s was trying to cross North Nebraska Avenue, just south of East Bougainvillea Avenue, outside of a crosswalk. That’s when a Hyundai Santa Fe, traveling southbound, struck the man. The pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene