Crime

KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- Oscola County Sheriff's Major Jacob Ruiz is a former Marine.

KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- Two roommates are being held at the Osceola County Jail after the long arm of the law arrested them over the weekend without incident at their residence and recovered proceeds from an armed invasion, according to an official with the Osceola County Sheriff's Office.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- The unmistakeable sound of gunshots rang out under the cover of darkness Saturday night -- the driver's side door riddled with bullet holes -- one of the rounds piercing the head of the young motorist and causing him to crash through a fence abd against Campbell Middle School.

SANFORD, Fla. -- Sanford police Investigators were notified through the Violent Crimes Against Children Task Force that a possible suspect, later identified as 19-year-old Harris M. Carvel, expressed interest in traveling to Sanford from Daytona Beach for the sole purpose of engaging in sexual intercourse with with two girls, ages 9 and 11, Sanford cops said in announcing his arrest on Wednesday.

DAYTONA BERACH, Fla. -- Steven Braddock, 49, a former sergeant with the Port Orange Police Department, and his wife Mary Braddock, 50, have been arrested by agents with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement for exploitation of an elderly person and forgery.

KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- It was a massive operation on a near-unprecedented scale and took an investment in time of seven months in partership with state and federal law enforement agencies, but in the end, Osceola Sheriff Russ Gibson knows greater Kissimmee is a much safer place in terms of being up-to-date on the exact whereabouts of 550 registered sexual offender and predators in Osceola County.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Finally after more than a decade, a face has emergged fronmy and center of the so-called elusive Daytona serial killer.

DAYTONA BEACH SHORES, Fla. -- "'That's a wrap!"

ORANGE CITY, Fla. -- Volusia County sheriff’s deputies tracked down a male prisoner several hours after he walked out of the Volusia County Branch Jail early Friday and returned him to custody without incident.

WINTER PARK, Fla. -- A man died early Saturday after an argument turned to gunfire at a bar in Winter Park, Orange County deputies said.