Tag: crime

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a 3-year-old Florida boy died after he was beaten with a plastic rod because he drank milk from a jug.

MIAMI (AP) -- A man who considered himself the Pablo Escobar of gold smuggling and two other former workers at a Miami-area refinery imported more than $1 billion in illegally mined gold from South America in a vast money-laundering scheme from 2013 to 2016, U.S. prosecutors say.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A U.S. Customs and Border Protection aircraft based in Florida was part of the recent seizure of more than $60 million in cocaine in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

MIAMI (AP) — A Florida man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for operating a sex trafficking ring involving women he lured from Cuba. The sentence was imposed by a Miami federal judge Friday on 31-year-old Silvio Clark Morales. Federal prosecutors said in a news release that Morales pleaded guilty in April to six counts of sex trafficking and one count of conspiracy. Court documents show Morales promised six Cuban women work as dancers. Instead, they were forced under threats of violence to work in strip clubs and as prostitutes. Authorities say Morales drove one victim to an isolated bridge near the Everglades, beat her, and told her he would throw her into the swamp and let alligators eat her. She survived after he put her in his car trunk.

LAKE CITY, Fla. (AP) — A Florida police officer was dragged for almost a mile (1.5 kilometers) by a vehicle driven by a man who had been stopped for a traffic violation.

MELBOURNE, Fla. (AP) — Best friends Blake Walker and Tristen Gibson had a weird first meeting — he robbed her.

Lucky Dog Daycare has not been so lucky. The South Tampa dog daycare is under investigation following the deaths of two dogs from heat exhaustion within two weeks.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Authorities say an 18-year-old man pointed a shotgun and shouted racist taunts at a woman and her son during a road rage confrontation along a Florida road.

A Haitian immigrant is the only casualty after trying to kill his ex-girlfriend at her Fort Pierce apartment in spectacular fashion.

SUN CITY CENTER, Fla. (AP) -- Authorities in Florida say the heirs of a man who hid his wife's body in a freezer so he could continue collecting her Social Security benefits have repaid the government for the money he took.