Crime & Police

An arrest affidavit noted Brandon Labiner’s souring relationship with his father in the time leading up to the murder.

“I’m sorry sir!” Rivero cries after he was tased repeatedly. “Please lord, please help me!”

The defense claims Charlie Adelson’s onetime girlfriend was the real mastermind behind the murder-for-hire plot to kill FSU law professor Dan Markel.

Prosecutors claim the trio used an Airbnb bathroom as a makeshift torture chamber in a bungled kidnapping scheme.

Just before the 100th anniversary of the Rosewood massacre, a local resident in the rural Florida town flew into a racist rage against Black historian Marvin Dunn.

Brandon Labiner’s father accused him of defrauding a Palm Beach County judge shortly before the elder Labiner was found in a pool of blood outside his Boca Raton law office.

LEO Technologies is poised to deploy its AI software across Florida prisons to monitor inmates’ phone calls.

Gary Ray Bowles, who went on a killing spree that claimed the lives of six men in 1994, was the last prisoner to be executed in Florida.

The unsealed indictment claims Caleb Freestone and Amber Smith-Stewart spray-painted threats on three Florida pro-life pregnancy centers this past summer.

A federal judge sentenced soothsayer Samantha Stevens, 51, to two and a half years in prison in connection with a multimillion-dollar spiritual fraud.

Austin Harrouff will be sent to a mental hospital after a judge determined he was in a psychotic state when he bludgeoned and stabbed two strangers to death.

A Broward man known as #Tweedledumb is headed to prison for assaulting a police officer during the Capitol Hill riot.

The Broward Sheriff’s Office is asking the county commission to approve $200,000 in funding from a civil forfeiture fund to purchase tactical rifles.

Florida is activating the National Guard to work at state prisons amid a shortage of correctional offices.

A jury has cleared former Broward Sheriff’s deputy Christopher Krickovich of all charges stemming from the violent takedown.

Although the U.S. is seeing a sharp rise in catalytic converter theft, state lawmakers have no plans to crack down.

Miami Beach police declined to issue an Amber Alert for the missing Black girl when she went missing in November.

Pandemic-induced depression and psychosis may have played a role.

A GiveSendGo campaign is raising money for Jan. 6 defendant Mason Courson of Weston.

A Key West man is going to learn to respect his elders the hard way: with hard time.

Online sleuths say “PinkGaitherPBG” is a South Florida GOP strategist and FIU student Barbara “Barby” Balmaseda.

To qualify for Florida’s in-state tuition discount, students must prove they were living in the state for 12 months prior to being incarcerated.