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An argument between two roommates living in a cramped Key West apartment ended with a near-fatal stabbing early Sunday morning, according to police. The violence unfolded shortly before 3 a.m. inside an apartment on Flagler Avenue, which is actually an open-air patio converted into a bedroom consisting of three beds shared by six people, police said in their report. The man accused in the stabbing, 41-year-old Elvis Savia-Mayorga, told police that the victim, 36-year-old Juan Victor Artola-Diaz, came home argumentative

A Pinellas County man was arrested for allegedly abusing his wife of 55 years because she wouldn’t let him drive their car, as he is not supposed to drive, an affidavit said. Largo police responded to the 2000 block of 8th Avenue Southwest on Friday afternoon, after the victim called and said her husband was beating her. During the call, the suspect, Walter Lee David, 78, could be heard saying, “Shut up and stop it.” According to the affidavit, the

A man was taken to jail on multiple charges after he reportedly broke into a Florida home to get his “dog”, police said. Jenung Marenah, 32, was arrested by Port Orange police on charges of burglary of an occupied dwelling, providing a false name to law enforcement, in addition to an open warrant for reckless driving. According to the police, at 4:19 a.m., Monday, homeowners at a residence on E Hensel Hill Road reported an unknown man, later identified as

An 11-year-old was seriously injured in a crash Monday morning when a person trying to get away from a traffic stop sped off and ran a red light in St. Petersburg, according to police. The crash happened at about 9 a.m. along 31st Street South, police said. An officer had pulled over a Mercedes SUV near 1st Avenue South and 31st Street South when the driver sped off and crashed into a minivan, police said. Both people in the minivan,

Holmes Beach police April 2 arrested Bridget Hyatt, 44, of Riverview, on a second-degree misdemeanor for allegedly driving under the influence. The arrest occurred at the Manatee Public Beach, 4000 Gulf Drive, Holmes Beach, after an officer responded to a call about a reckless driver. The officer found Hyatt sleeping in the driver’s seat with a Nutri beverage between her legs, according to an HBPD report. She also was parked illegally, as the public beach was closed. A Manatee County

Photo by: Hillsborough County Fire Rescue A video released by police in Florida shows the moment a bottle service sparkler set a restaurant in Tampa on fire. The video, released by Hillsborough County Fire Rescue on Tuesday, shows workers at the Mamajuana Cafe preparing bottles with sparklers shortly before 11 p.m. on April 6. However, when the workers started to head to one of the customers, one of the servers extended the sparkler over her head, unintentionally setting the thatch roof of the tiki

Surveillance video released on Tuesday shows it’s likely that a gunman who killed two men and injured a witness in Miami had firearm training, police said. Miami detectives identified him as Jason Craig Dyer-Mitchell. Records show the 23-year-old man from Ohio had an arrest record in Miami Beach after an attack in South Beach. Dyer-Mitchell has been at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center since early Sunday morning. Detectives accused him of fatally shooting Shamun Shaukat and Shahbaz Hussain, and

 A man charged with several crimes that occurred earlier this month in Miami Beach appeared before a Miami-Dade County judge on Tuesday. Police arrested 35-year-old Christopher Pitre who they say faces serious charges, including aggravated assault with a firearm, burglary and various types of theft. Pitre appeared in bond court Tuesday afternoon. He was arrested Monday for a string of crimes committed at several locations throughout Miami Beach. “We were able to successfully link multiple investigations together,” said Christopher Bess, with the

A career criminal from Fort Lauderdale is facing several charges after police said he kidnapped, beat and tried to rob and sexually assault a healthcare worker near Broward Health Imperial Point hospital, according to court documents obtained by Local 10 News on Tuesday. According to jail records, Willie J. Brown, 48, was taken into custody at the Broward Main Jail Sunday; police said the crime took place last June. According to an arrest warrant from the Fort Lauderdale Police Department,

The Tampa Police Department is looking for a suspect in a “bank jugging” case. Jugging is a term used when a criminal waits for a victim to withdraw a large sum of cash from a bank or ATM, and then follows them to another location and robs them. In the latest case, police said the victim withdrew cash from a bank on Kennedy Boulevard on April 5 and then drove to a nearby restaurant. The victim left the cash in

A landscape worker is recovering in the hospital after being struck by a car in Port St. Lucie Tuesday morning. The crash happened at around 10:28 a.m. at the intersection of Port St. Lucie Boulevard and Southwest Kail Street. Port St. Lucie police said a black Mercedes was traveling eastbound on the inside lane of Port St. Lucie Boulevard and struck a landscape worker in the blocked lane. The woman landscape worker was airlifted to Lawnwood Hospital. Police said her

Photo by: Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles A man accused of causing a crash while under the influence fled the U.S. for 15 years to avoid prosecution, Florida authorities said. He was arrested after catching a flight to Orlando, according to state officials. Faisal Javaid was 27 at the time of a 2006 crash in Polk County that left two people seriously injured, the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles said in an April 16 news release.