Crime

Top Cops: Ormond Beach Police Capt. Christopher Roos has overcome colon cancer in a near 25-year career - most of it with New Smyrna Beach PD

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<p>ORMOND BEACH, Fla. -- Christopher Roos is a captain with the Ormond Beach Police Department, who has endured, having overcome cancer during his long tenure previously with the Smyrna Beach police force.</p>

BREAKING NEWS: Sanford cops: Alleged gunman sought in Seminole Towne Center Mall parking lot shooting apprehended

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SANFORD, Fla. -- Sanford cops apprehended Lewis Thomas Boone tonight for the shooting of another young man that occurred on Tuesday in the parking lot of the Seminole Towne Center Mall.

BREAKING NEWS: New Smyrna Beach Cops: Known drug peddler gunned down on front porch under cover of darkness

By HENRY FREDERICK
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NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- A known drug peddler was gunned down on a porch under the cover of darkness and cops had little, if anything, to go on in way of suspects or a motive in this popular tourist-driven beachfront city known for its charm.

BREAKING NEWS: Sanford Cops: Woman dead & man clinging to life after shots fired in apparent murder-suicide attempt Henry Frederick Thu, 01/18/2018 - 06:19
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SANFORD, Fla. -- A mini-caravan of cop cars and other law enforcement vehicles descended on a quiet neighborhood Wednesday in this waterfront city in response to what appeared to be a domestic-related attempted murder suicide involving gunfire with a young pronounced dead on arrival at Seminole County Regional Hospital and her boyfriend barely clinging to life after surgery. 

Feds: Ex-State Rep. Dwayne Taylor of Daytona sentenced in US District Court in Orlando to 13 months in prison

ORLANDO, FLA. – U.S. District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza earler today sentenced former Florida House of Representatives member Dwayne L. Taylor,  50, of Daytona Beach, to 13 months in federal prison for wire fraud.

City of DeLand honors Clerk of Court Laura Roth with proclamation for contributing to betterment of Spring Hill community

DELAND, Fla. -- When crack cocaine first hit the streets in the mid-1980s, an already-impoverisherd and historically black community by the name of Spring Hill outside the DeLand city limits had become a major drug den for the better part of the next two decades -- its poor and law abiding citizens caught in the cross fire between rival drug dealers.

Daytona Beach Shores cops: Death of woman, 34, in Hawaiian Inn under investigation as a homicide

DAYTONA BEACH SHORES, Fla. -- The death of 34-year-old female in a motel room is being investigated as a homicide, cops said. She was identified Sunday as Olympia Cerruti, 34.

 

Ambush killings of 2 Kissimmee cops gives Edgewater officer reason to think about his own mortality

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EDGEWATER, Fla. -- On Aug. 19, two Kissimmee police officers were killed in a shootout. Later that weekend, an officer in Volusia County named Charles Geiger got ready for his overnight shift in Edgewater – and thought about what might happen on his shift.