MIAMI (CBSMiami) – An ex-cop out of North Miami is set to find out if he will be going to jail, and for how long Former North Miami police officer Johathan Aledda will be sentenced on Wednesday after being found guilty last month of culpable negligence in the shooting of an unarmed caretaker. The jury also returned a verdict of not guilty on count one and count two of attempted manslaughter, which were felony charges.
Aledda faces up to a... [...]
The Florida State Attorney's Office is being urged not to prosecute a woman who was arrested after turning in her husband's guns to police while he was in jail on domestic violence charges.
After a divorce court meeting on June 14, Joseph and Courtney Irby got into an argument, according to an arrest report obtained by the Lakeland Ledger. When Courtney Irby, 32, tried to leave, her husband followed her, rammed into her vehicle and forced... [...]
MIAMI (CBSMiami)- A Miami-Dade police officer was arrested for allegedly selling stolen cars.
Officer Orestes Santiago Verdura, a six-year veteran with MDPD, stole the cars and brokered them with the help of 38-year-old Ariel Sanchez, according to investigators.
Sanchez, who is an associate of Verdura, is accused of delivering the vehicles.
Police learned about Verdura’s crimes from an unnamed informant, who said the officer had... [...]
Despite a 9% reduced crime rate statewide, Florida in 2018 saw an uptick in murders and rapes, according to statistics released Monday.
The fall in the state’s crime rate is inline with a 48-year trend of fewer robberies, aggravated assaults, burglaries, larcenies and car thefts, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s annual crime report.
According to the report, violent crimes were down 4.2% throughout the state... [...]
Fake patients, real clinics, doctors and patients, and South Florida Publix, Walgreens and a Kmart pharmacy combined for a prescription drug gang operation.
At least, that’s the assertion of an affidavit in support of arrest warrants filed in Broward County court, the result of a Broward Sheriff’s Office, FBI, DEA and Sunny Isles Beach police investigation.
The warrants led to seven Thursday arrests in Miami-Dade and Palm Beach... [...]
