Articles Tagged with Florida

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A Florida corrections officer who works for the Osceola County Corrections Department was arrested and charged after an alleged domestic violence incident. 

On December 12, a 35-year-old corrections officer was at a residence with a woman, and things reportedly got intense between them. 

The man, who has worked for Osceola County for approximately 6 years, reportedly got into an altercation with the woman, and he allegedly became physically violent. 

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A former Florida news columnist and regular guest of Tucker Carlson was arrested for allegedly bilking her mother out of more than $200,000 after forcing her into an assisted living facility. 

51-year-old Catherine Areu Jones works under the name of Cathy Areu, and she used to be a columnist for the Washington Post. She hosted a podcast called Liberal Sherpa, and she used the name “Liberal Sherpa” on the occasions that she was a guest on Tucker Carlson’s show on Fox.  

Jones has an 88-year-old mother, and she used to have power of attorney, but it was reportedly revoked. 

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An officer from Illinois was on vacation in Florida when a staff member at a hotel allegedly caught him urinating inside an ice machine intended for use by the guests.  

Late in the evening on December 4, a man later identified as a Chicago police officer was hanging out with his girlfriend at Jimmy B’s Beach Bar. The couple was on vacation in St. Petersburg. 

Just after midnight, the man reportedly went inside Jimmy B’s and walked up to the ice machine. 

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When the authorities walked up to a man who was using a pipe and determined that he was smoking meth, the suspect reportedly informed them that methamphetamine is now legal in the Sunshine state. 

According to his arrest record, 31-year-old Enzo Zabala-Cardozo is from St. Petersburg, Florida, and he is currently without permanent housing. 

Early in the morning on August 4, Zabala-Cardoza was reportedly standing in an alley when officers with the St. Petersburg Police Department noticed him. They thought they saw a glass pipe and a lighter in his hands. As they got closer, the police alleged that he was holding the pipe to his lips and trying to light it with the lighter. 

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Two people in Florida allegedly used social media to recruit underage girls for sex acts that the man recorded on video. 

According to reports, 33-year-old Marc Phillip Dinkels and 19-year-old Taylor Kathleen Brandt met online. They reportedly began to spend time together after Dinkels allegedly told Brandt he would pay her to engage in sexual activity if he was allowed to film it. 

It was reported that the pair went on social media and offered three underage girls money if they performed sex acts. Two of the alleged victims, one of whom is 14, live in a foster home. 

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When a man was pulled over for reportedly failing to comply with Florida’s “Move Over” traffic law, he was allegedly found in possession of a huge stash of narcotics. 

Anthony Diaz is from Katy, Texas. 

On May 18, Diaz was driving on Interstate 95 in Brevard County, Florida. He passed a deputy’s vehicle that was parked on the side of the road while the law enforcement agent was dealing with another driver. 

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A woman in Florida has been accused of approaching men that she does not know and hugging them for the alleged purpose of stealing their wallets to use their credit cards. 

65-year-old Kathy Stevens lives in Clearwater, Florida. 

According to the local authorities, Stevens is known as the “hugging bandit” for allegedly bestowing costly embraces upon men she has never met before. It is purported by the police that she does so because it affords her the opportunity to take their wallets without it being immediately detected by the alleged victims. 

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Two youngsters were reportedly left at home without proper supplies or supervision while their mother flew to Florida with her boyfriend for a three-day vacation. 

36-year-old Kerry Caviasca and her two kids, ages 8 and 11, live in Watertown, Connecticut. She teaches at a middle school in the Waterbury School District. 

It is reported that Caviasca is no longer married to the father of the children, and she is currently dating someone. 

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A father protesting the mask mandate at his daughter’s high school was arrested after allegedly physically assaulting a student.

50-year-old Dan Bauman is the parent of a 15-year-old girl who attends Fort Lauderdale High School.

Because of the high number of COVID-19 cases in the area, the school chose to implement a mask mandate for all of the students and staff on the campus.

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When a 15-year-old who said she was going on a church retreat failed to return home, she was found in a Florida vacation rental home with an armed felon.

In mid-July, a 15-year-old girl from Dilley, Texas booked a flight to Ft. Meyers after informing her parents that she would be attending an all-inclusive church retreat in the Sunshine state.

According to the young woman’s friends, they believed she had been talking to a man using social media.

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