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A 47-year-oldDeFuniak Springs woman was charged with battery on law enforcement after grabbing a detention deputy by the throat in Walton County over the weekend. According to the release,detention deputies at the Walton County Jail attempted to place Sherry Underwood back into her cell. When they got close, she raised her hand like she was going to strike a female Detention Deputy. Underwood only lowered her hand when a male deputy stepped between them, according to the Walton County Sheriff’s

A 17-year-old boy is critically injured and a 21-year-old man is arrested after ahit-and-run crash in Escambia County Sunday night, according to FHP. Jose Selvin Lopez-Ayala is charged with: He also has a hold for ICE. The crash happened on Massachusetts Avenue at Embers Landing around 9:30 p.m., according to FHP. Troopers say it was a head-on collision between Lopez-Ayala’s pickup truck and a 17-year-old Pensacola boy driving a car. Lopez-Ayala ran off following the crash, but was later found

The son charged with the murder of his father faced a Lee County judge Monday morning for a plea hearing. The Lee County Sheriff’s Office charged Jake Hemmert for the murder of his father, Brian Hemmert, in September 2023. Brian Hemmert’s body was found inside his River Hall home in a freezer. He was 60 years old. Hemmert withdrew his not guilty plea and plead no contest. He is facing a 30-year sentence in prison, with 25 years minimum and

A Lee County deputy was arrested on Sunday after being accused of driving under the influence. Deputies say late in the evening on Saturday, a traffic stop was conducted on Christopher Tice, an off-duty Lieutenant, at the intersection of Fowler Street and Colonial Boulevard in Fort Myers. The sheriff’s office says they watched the truck Tice was driving swerve all over the road, and nearly missing multiple other vehicles. After declining field sobriety tests, according to reports, Tice was arrested

A 23-year-old man was arrested in DeSoto County after allegedly threatening his brother and his brother’s girlfriend with a machete during an argument. Cameron Evans, 23, is facing charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill after an argument on E Cypress Street in Arcadia. According to reports, Cameron’s brother told deputies they were having an argument between all four members of the house. Deputies say during the argument, Cameron grabbed a machete before entering the

Two people have been arrested in Manatee County after a body was found in the trunk of a car early Sunday morning. According to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office, Palmetto Police officers were patrolling the Palmetto Estuary Nature Preserve when they found the body of Manuel Escobar in the vehicle. Detectives said Escobar had multiple gunshot wounds to his body. The Manatee County Sheriff’s Office said homicide detectives determined Escobar was shot on the 2800 block of 5th Street East

An Atlanta man accused of shooting two people inside a Deltona, Florida home last week has been arrested near Detroit, according to the Volusia Sheriff’s Office. In a Facebook post, VSO said Malik J. McKenzie, 29, of Dallas, Georgia, was arrested on Saturday by police in Southfield, Michigan, a suburb outside of Detroit. He was booked into jail on two counts of attempted first-degree murder and one count of armed burglary. Deputies said the shooting happened around 3 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 19, at a

A 21-year-old man and an 18-year-old man were arrested last week and accused in connection with a shooting that left a family’s dog dead. An arrest report from the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office showed Nathan Kizer was arrested Wednesday after investigators found him in a car that was seen around the time of the shooting in the Lake Forest neighborhood on Aug. 15. Kizer was charged with shooting into an occupied building with a semi-automatic weapon. One of the victims told JSO

A 20-year-old man was identified as a victim who was killed when shots were fired at his car in Miami Gardens. Another person who was in the car was rushed to the hospital and three children were in the back seat, police said. The shooting took place Sunday in the area of Northwest 183rd Street and 45th Avenue, at around 8:40 p.m. According to police, Mah’ki Cutler was killed in what they referred to as a targeted shooting. “Our victims were coming

A Miami man was criminally charged last Friday, more than two years after he shot two people during a road rage incident on Florida’s Turnpike, authorities said. Jermaine Marquan Jackson, 30, faces charges of attempted murder, discharging a firearm from a vehicle, shooting or throwing a deadly missile and improper exhibition of a firearm. According to his arrest report, the shooting occurred around 1 p.m. on Jan. 11, 2022, in the southbound lanes of the Turnpike at the Golden Glades

A self-proclaimed social media model is now facing four new charges for allegedly driving drugged on a substance known as “pink cocaine” and causing a deadly crash that killed two people. Last week, 24-year-old Maecee Marie Lathers was arrested and charged with eight counts including driving with a suspended license and causing a death. However, a week later prosecutors charged the woman with two counts of vehicular homicide and two counts of reckless driving. In total, she faces 12 charges. Police found

A heated argument between two men in Boca Raton turned into a deadly stabbing. The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office (PBSO) reported that on August 6, at around 10:40 p.m., Peterson Eliantus, 37, called the victim, and they began to argue. Deputies stated that Eliantus then proceeded to drive with a friend to the home that the victim was staying at, located near the intersection of Southwest 9th Street and Southwest 54th Way in Boca Raton. According to the report,