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BROOKSVILLE, Fla. - A convicted felon found passed out in a car with illegal drugs and a rifle has been arrested in Hernando County. According to the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office, deputies found Jordan Styles passed out in the driver’s seat of a Chevy Silverado truck at the intersection of East Early Street and East Jefferson Street in Brooksville shortly before 12:30 a.m. on Wednesday. Deputies say the truck, which had a trailer attached, was still running and in drive. According to HCSO, investigators saw a piece of burnt aluminum foil and a small straw, which law enforcement says are...

BROOKSVILLE, Fla. - A Hernando County man wasn’t able to outsmart deputies by climbing a tree following a bicycle chase. According to the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office, a deputy tried to stop a man on a bicycle shortly after 10:45 p.m. on Thursday in the area of Navy Drive and Twin Dolphin Drive in Brooksville, but he gave a fake name and fled. The sheriff’s office’s K9 and aviation units were called in to help locate the man later identified as Michael BoDor. It wasn’t long before the aviation unit spotted BoDor hiding high up in a tree. He climbed...

Tampa, Florida – Kevin Hohn (65, Brooksville) has been arrested and charged by federal criminal complaint with possession and distribution of images depicting the sexual abuse of children. If convicted, he faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 5 years, and up to 20 years, in federal prison, and a potential life term of supervised release. According to the criminal complaint, in September and December 2020, investigators identified a certain internet protocol address as having distributed images and a video depicting child pornography. Further investigation traced the IP address used to distribute the files to Hohn’s residence in Brooksville. Investigators determined...

Craig Lang, who is charged with killing a Florida couple in 2018, has become a cause célèbre in the country where he has fought as a mercenary. In the spring of 2015, former U.S. soldier Craig Lang traveled to Ukraine and joined a paramilitary group fighting the Russians. “I never noticed any fear,” said Mamuka Mamulashvili, who commanded Lang in the Georgian Legion. Four years later, Lang is under house arrest in Ukraine. His situation has nothing to do with his conduct inside the eastern European country. Lang is facing charges in the U.S. for allegedly killing a Florida couple...

On 8-30-18, at approximately 5:32 p.m., the director of the YMCA after school program at Chocachatti Elementary School contacted the Hernando County Sheriff's Office in reference to a parent who allegedly made reference to a bomb at the school. At this time of day the school was closed with the gate down when the parent and YMCA representative had contact at the front of the school. The parent told the YMCA representative that he missed picking up his child at the bus stop and was waiting for the bus to return to the school so he could pick up the...

A Florida restaurant decided to cancel its DirecTV NFL package over the controversy about players kneeling during the national anthem to protest social injustices. Curtis West, who co-owns Beef O’Brady’s in Brooksville with his wife Janet, told FOX13 Tampa Bay on Monday there will be no NFL games shown because of the “disrespect” the players have shown. “Last year, with the kneeling and the disrespect to our veterans and our flag and our country, I was very upset,” West told the station. The restaurant will save more than $5,000 by canceling its package and instead will offer veterans 40 percent...

A student was arrested on Friday for allegedly making six false bomb threat reports at Central High School and Endeavor Academy in Hernando County. The student is a 17-year-old female, according to the Hernando County Sheriff's Office. "I think students don't always think about the consequences of their actions," said Hernando County Sheriff Al Nienhuis, following the student's arrest. The first two bomb threats were called in on Monday just minutes apart around 12:44 p.m. The third, Tuesday at 7:45 a.m. The 4th and 5th, Wednesday at 7:40 a.m., then again at 10:30 a.m. The 6th threat came in on...

Steve Damron paced back and forth in front of the old courthouse building in Brooksville Friday. On his shoulder, Damron carried a large Confederate battle flag as he stood in front of a Confederate statue that was first put up in Brooksville in 1916. “I’m here to protect history. I’m here to protect these monuments,” said Damron As he spoke, car after car drove by honking, waving and shouting support for Damron’s efforts. Tampa businessmen may have bonded together on Thursday to raise more than $140,000 dollars to take down a Confederate memorial, but this is Brooksville and things are...

<p>BROOKSVILLE (FOX 13) - Brooksville police arrested a man they say was swinging swords at customers in Walmart on Broad Street.</p> <p>The responding officers were called by the store's manager, who said someone was threatening customers in the parking lot. When they got there, they found Shannon Schenck carrying two swords and appearing to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol, the police department said.</p>

A confrontation described as heated but non-violent thwarted a planned burning of the Confederate flag by demonstrators Saturday in Brooksville. A few hundred counter-protesters — many carrying Confederate and American flags — showed up at the steps of the Hernando County courthouse to cut short a rally in which organizers denounced “rampant white racist violence.” Organizers of the protest included the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, a St. Petersburg group of white people under the leadership of the African People’s Socialist Party, which seeks reparations for black Americans. As about a dozen people protested, they became greatly outnumbered by a pro-Confederate flag...

Police say a man stalked his ex-girlfriend and her current boyfriend, even going so far as to place black widow spider eggs in their mailbox. 65-year-old Michael R. Burcum faces stalking charges after Hernando deputies say he harassed her after the two broke up earlier this year. Investigators say Burcum briefly dated 47-year-old Kimberly Sonnenschen for about three weeks in March, before they broke up and Sonnenschen went back to her long-term boyfriend, 52-year-old Stephen Boyce. Since that time, Burcum has allegedly written harassing letters to Boyce and Sonnenschen, and also tried to get access to Boyce's social security number....

Brooksville city leaders have decided to look more closely at the city logo that shows two Confederate soldiers holding a Confederate battle flag....Councilman Frankie Burnett raised the issue during the final moments of the meeting...