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Family mourns Orlando man killed in hit-and-run: 'I just want him back'
ORLANDO, Fla. - Florida Highway Patrol officials are still looking for the hit-and-run driver that killed an Orlando man walking on the sidewalk. The family of Jonnier Agosto Cortes is mourning his loss. He was killed in a hit-and-run crash Thursday night. According to Florida Highway Patrol troopers, he was walking on the sidewalk on Curry Ford Road near Colton Avenue when a driver lost control of their vehicle and hit him.
Tampa man convicted in drug trafficking scheme that helped move fentanyl, meth from Mexico to Florida
TAMPA, Fla. - Federal prosecutors said a Tampa man was part of a drug trafficking network, moving methamphetamine and fentanyl from Mexico to Tampa and Orlando. A U.S. District Judge found Enock Edouard guilty of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and fentanyl, possession with intent to distribute and criminal contempt after a bench trial. Evidence presented in court shows how the network operated between 2021-2023, moving drugs from Mexico to California in car tires and then transporting the drugs to Orlando and Tampa.
Principal accused of hitting, choking student
The principal of a private Christian school has been arrested, accused of putting a student in a chokehold and beating him. Dontay "Donnie" Prophet, 33, the principal at Destiny Leadership Academy, was arrested Saturday and charged with aggravated child abuse and false imprisonment of a child after the incident that unfolded the day prior on the school's campus, the arrest affidavit said.
Orlando police, FHP ID five pro-Palestine protesters arrested over the weekend
The names of the two people arrested at a pro-Palestine rally in downtown Orlando were released Monday, as organizers criticized the police’s handling of what was otherwise a peaceful demonstration calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Kelvin Santos Mulero, 22, and Frankie Pagan, 19, were arrested Saturday on charges of battery on law enforcement, after Orlando police officers shoved through a ...
Police identify shooter in fatal Deltona road rage incident
The shooter in a road rage confrontation that left a man dead in Deltona last month has been identified in an incident report. The investigation indicated that Crawford fired in self-defense when Ashley raised his firearm, according to a previous release from the Volusia Sheriff’s Office. The case is...
Woman pleads guilty to plotting with a neo-Nazi group leader to attack Baltimore’s power grid
BALTIMORE (AP) — A Maryland woman pleaded guilty on Tuesday to conspiring with a neo-Nazi leader from Florida to plan an attack on the power grid in the Baltimore area. Sarah Beth Clendaniel, 36, of Catonsville, and her alleged co-conspirator, Brandon Russell, believed that sniper attacks on five electrical substations in greater Baltimore “would serve to break down society,” according to a court filing accompanying her guilty plea.
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