Crime

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Not only did Mike Chitwood rely on Daytona's influential insiders to fund nearly two-thirds of his 2016 campaign for sheriff in 2016, the then-police chief also paid $3,000 to an ex-con for political advice. 

What better way to begin bringing Chitwood into the Sunshine and exposing his hypocrisies than today -- Friday the 13th?

PALATKA, Fla. -- the Palatka Police Department mourns the loss of K-9 Tango. K-9, who passed away on May 11, from an unexpected medical condition.

<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>

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.

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.

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.

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, 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.

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.