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Deputies say a man was less than cooperative after they arrested him for allegedly driving under the influence after he crashed into a home. According to the arrest report from the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office, at approximately 1 a.m., deputies responded to a rollover crash on Harborview Road in Charlotte Harbor on Sunday. A woman called 911 to say a truck had rolled over and eventually landed against her house. about:blank According to the report, a man then exited his truck

Photo by: wink news A man is recovering in the hospital after suffering burn injuries from a truck crash that sparked a fire. The Lehigh Acres Fire Control and Rescue attended to this fire near 40th Street Southwest and Sunshine Boulevard South on Monday afternoon. Dash camera footage from the crash shows the truck crashing into cars while driving into the property of a Lehigh Acres resident. Upon impact, the truck exploded into flames trapping the driver within the burning

 teenager is in the hospital following a moped crash that killed an Inverness man on Sunday night.  According to the Florida Highway Patrol, a 21-year-old Belleview woman was traveling eastbound on W. Norvell Bryant Highway around 7:30 p.m. when she crashed into a moped she was trying to pass just west of North Betty Point.  Upon impact, troopers say the rider and a passenger fell off the moped. The rider was then run over by a 75-year-old Crystal River man,

A driver was arrested after colliding with a traffic control device and three other vehicles on Friday night, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Troopers say Harry Van Dyken was headed south on I-275 approaching exit 28. According to other drivers, Dyken was struggling to stay in his lane and ended up hitting a traffic attenuator. Dyken traveled into the inside lane where the front bumper of a vehicle hit his, according to authorities. Dyken’s vehicle collided with another vehicle that spun

Photo by: New Port Richey Police Department  Police are searching for a man who threw hot coffee at a Dunkin’ Donuts employee on Sunday morning. Photos show the suspect at a drive-thru window at the Dunkin’ Donuts located at 5524 US HWY 19 in New Port Richey around 8:45 a.m. The suspect was given an extra cup of coffee for free by an employee, according to officials. Authorities say the suspect became irate and threw the hot cup of coffee at the

Photo by: local10 A water main break flooded a key thoroughfare in Miami Lakes early Monday evening. It happened along Northwest 67th Avenue near New Barn Road in Miami Lakes’ downtown area, closing a portion of the roadway. The break caused a sinkhole to form, trapping an SUV with the driver still inside. Images from Sky 10 showed an SUV stuck in the floodwaters. Miami-Dade police were at the scene blocking traffic. The driver, who did not want to be

 A 19-year-old was arrested after police said he fired shots at a person’s vehicle following a ‘roadway altercation’ outside of Amalie Arena on Sunday night.  According to the Tampa Police Department, units responded to the intersection of Morgan Street and Channelside Drive at around 6:28 p.m. on Sunday after shots were fired. Based on their investigation, police determined two parties were involved in a dispute and when both returned to their vehicles, Shyquan Lee Galon, 19, fired multiple shots at the occupied

A commercial fisherman’s body was found in the water on Monday in St. Petersburg after he had been missing for several days, according to officers.  The St. Petersburg Police Department said Juan Bueno Sanchez was reported missing by his wife on February 23 after she hadn’t been able to get in touch with him for several days.  Officials said he was a commercial fisherman who was working on a shrimp boat in St. Pete.  The Coast Guard and other local agencies searched

The Seminole County Sheriff’s Office announced Monday that 13 people have been arrested in connection to a January 2023 drive-by shooting in Central Florida that left an innocent woman dead and five of her friends injured – apparently the result of a high-profile social media fight between two rappers, Jackboy and Kodak Black. Officials are still looking for one suspect. Deputies said the shooting happened around 2 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 16, 2023, at the inspection of County Road 46A and Rinehart

Photo by: fox13news Police responded to an officer-involved shooting near US 41 and University Parkway in Sarasota, according to authorities. “I got off the bus, and I was walking down 41 when I heard about four gunshots,” said Arthur Mayhew. A New College of Florida alert reported that there was a shooting near campus on Monday. According to the Sarasota Police Department, the shooting occurred around 7:50 a.m. Authorities say an officer initiated a traffic stop on a subject’s vehicle

A 50-year-old Palmetto man is no longer facing criminal charges in a hit-and-run crash that left two people dead and one person critically injured. Zachary Nelson was charged with leaving the scene of a crash that killed a 13-year-old and a 47-year-old man along U.S. 19, but court records show prosecutors dropped the charges less than a month before he was scheduled to go to trial. The case has been dismissed even though Nelson reported the accident the next day.

The Sheriff’s Office has announced the arrest of 39-year-old Jenri Fuentes Rodriguez following a series of collisions that culminated in a fatal traffic accident. The devastating chain of events unfolded in the early hours of February 25, 2024, leading to the tragic death of 59-year-old Ann Marie Rutkowski. The incident began when Rodriguez, reportedly leaving a nightclub, was involved in an initial collision with an occupied vehicle at Waters Avenue and Himes Avenue. Instead of stopping, Rodriguez fled the scene, only to