CRIME & SAFETY
Bradenton man arrested for fatal hit-and-run
BRADENTON, Fla. (WWSB) - The Florida Highway Patrol Traffic Homicide division has arrested John Arthur Sanfanandre, of Bradenton, for leaving the scene of a crash involving death on Wednesday. On March 22, the 84-year-old hit a bicyclist and fled the scene, according to authorities. The bicyclist sustained serious injuries, was...
Bradenton Police searching for missing teen
BRADENTON, Fla. (WWSB) - Bradenton Police Department is looking for 15-year-old Hugo Verdugo-Valdez, who left Manatee High School on Monday, April 22, and has not returned to caregivers. Hugo previously has been located at the Manatee Mobile Home Park on Manatee Ave. E. He is approximately 5-foot-10-inches and 210 pounds...
Owner of Coastal Veterinary Internal Medicine arrested for committing prescription fraud
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Dr. Melissa Page, the owner of Coastal Veterinary Internal Medicine, was arrested on Thursday on two counts of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud. According to the arrest affidavit, Dr. Page was writing fraudulent controlled substance prescriptions for her patients, dogs and cats, and then picking...
USCG Station Cortez, Manatee County Sheriff’s Office boat crews rescue three people
MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. (WWSB) - United States Coast Guard Station Cortez and Manatee County Sheriff’s Office boat crews rescued three people on Friday night around 6 p.m. Their vessel reportedly capsized near the Sunshine Skyway Fishing Pier. All three boaters were retrieved. One person was transported to emergency medical...
FHP: At-fault driver in 5-car crash charged with homicide
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Florida Highway Patrol says the man behind last week’s five-car collision has been charged with vehicular homicide. It began with two troopers trying to pull over Aramis Harrison, a standard traffic stop. They tried near 301 and Tallevast, but Harrison, who had several warrants out for his arrest, switched places with the woman behind the wheel in order to try and escape police.
‘Shinn did it’: Woman predicted she would be killed by boyfriend who allegedly staged murder scene to look like a suicide
The medical examiner on Tuesday ruled the manner of death as a homicide and the cause of death as strangulation with contributing factors of blunt force trauma and multi-drug toxicity. The post ‘Shinn did it’: Woman predicted she would be killed by boyfriend who allegedly staged murder scene to look like a suicide first appeared on Law & Crime.
27 endangered kids rescued in Tampa Bay area operation
TAMPA, Fla. - A US Marshals operation spanning five weeks rescued 27 of the Tampa Bay area's most endangered children. Operation Seminole Saber was a five-week initiative aimed at recovering or safely locating the most critically missing youth from Hillsborough and Pinellas counties. The US Marshals Service (USMS) opened 33...
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