CRIME & SAFETY
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...
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...
19-year-old wanted for attempted murder arrested on Lakewood High School campus
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — St. Petersburg police officers arrested a 19-year-old man on two counts of second-degree attempted murder while he was registering for a local community school. James Flournoy, 19, was arrested on the Lakewood High School campus Tuesday as he registered for the Lakewood Community School. Police...
Teen charged in deadly shooting granted $160K bond in Hillsborough court hearing
TAMPA - New details in the shooting death of a teenager were released at a court hearing Tuesday for the Hillsborough County teen who’s charged in the crime. Cody Shimooka, 15, is charged with manslaughter, tampering with evidence, and minor in possession of a firearm. Deputies responded to the...
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.
Booker Middle School student caught with gun at school
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - A Booker Middle School student was caught with a gun on campus and was removed from school on Tuesday. According to an email sent to parents, Booker Middle School received a call from a parent that a student may be in possession of a weapon on campus on Tuesday morning.
Florida man arrested after ‘throwing pasta with sauce’ amid road rage incident
A Florida man has been arrested after flinging pasta with sauce at another driver in a bizarre road rage incident.Nolan Goins, 46, was arrested on Thursday on a misdemeanour of simple battery, jail records show after he allegedly got caught up in a road rage incident over “glaring headlights”.Mr Goins was travelling along Park Street near Bay Pines Boulevard in St Petersburg, Florida, at around 9pm when the glare from a driver’s headlights sparked a road rage incident, according to an arrest affidavit.While the traffic was still moving, Mr Goins purportedly threw “pasta with sauce” from his passenger side, hurling...
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