FDLE investigating Sunday incident involving Fort Lauderdale police officer Steven Pohorence
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – A Fort Lauderdale police officer who is accused of pushing a 19-year-old woman during a protest over the weekend has 70 use of force cases on his personnel file, Local 10 News learned.
Fort Lauderdale police spokeswoman Casey Liening told Local 10 News reporter Roy Ramos that Internal Affairs automatically looks into... [...]
2 people taken into custody
MIAMI – The driver of a stolen van collided into two police vehicles early Friday morning during a police chase in the city of Miami, authorities confirmed.
According to Miami police spokesman Mike Vega, officers spotted the van shortly after 3 a.m., which matched the description of a van involved in a fatal hit-and-run crash that occurred in April.
Vega said officers attempted to stop the driver, but... [...]
Florida’s Department of Health on Thursday morning confirmed 1,419 additional cases of COVID-19, bringing the state’s total to 60,183 confirmed cases.
Thursday’s daily total of newly confirmed cases is the most the state has seen since Florida’s Department of Health began providing daily updates on the novel coronavirus in March.
Previously, the highest daily total recorded since the pandemic began was April 17, when 1,413 cases... [...]
Judge granted house arrest to teen charged with manslaughter
MIAMI, Fla. – The now 18-year-old who admitted to police that he shot a 15-year-old girl in the head accidentally while playing with a gun, appeared in Miami-Dade County bond court Wednesday.
Witnesses told police that Thalys Gabriel Oliveira had been pointing the gun at different people during the night in his Miami Shorecrest neighborhood apartment when he shot Arya... [...]
Prosecutors on Tuesday charged a Miami teenager as an adult for the shooting that killed 15-year-old Miami Beach High freshman Arya Gray.
Thalys Oliveira will face trial on a charge of manslaughter with a deadly weapon. He turned 18 late last month, 15 days after his arrest.
Miami police say that shooting happened as Oliveira was “recklessly brandishing” a gun during a late-night hangout of teenagers at his Shorecrest... [...]
