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Two families broke out into a brawl at a Florida IHOP after a woman allegedly attacked a teenage girl for talking badly about her four children, a shocking video shows. The fight took place on Monday night in North Miami Beach when Precious Williams, 34, accused a 14-year-old girl who was in the restaurant with her family of saying something about her children, who range in age from three to eight, the Daily Mail reported. Footage that NBC 6 South Florida obtained shows the presumed mother of the teen denying the allegations as Williams becomes more accusatory and aggressive: “My...

A mother accused of pushing her 1-year-old daughter out of a car in Hialeah allegedly became enraged after the child spilled shampoo, according to a new arrest warrant. Tasshay Mills, 29, was arrested last week on child abuse and child neglect charges in the incident that led to a missing child alert before the girl was found safe. The incident happened Thursday night in the area of Northwest 37th Avenue and Northwest 54th Street. Witnesses said they were at the intersection when the girl was found in the roadway.

Shocking bodycam footage shows the moment a Florida woman is arrested after she allegedly engaged in a lesbian threesome in a public pool in front of children. The woman, who told officers her name was Julianna, was seen getting a kiss on the cheek from her mom before being taken to jail on June 14, 2023. Bodycam footage of the incident emerged for the first time last week. Julianna and her two friends, who fled the scene before cops arrived, were allegedly seen naked in the pool having oral sex with each other at an unidentified housing complex in St...

Come on, surely you've been arrested over a plate of pasta, right? No? Well, pull up a chair — I've got a weird one for ya! Let's talk about 21-year-old Nakhia Davis. Davis and her sister live in Florida (yes, another wild Florida story). Her sister ordered herself a nice ravioli meal, having it delivered to their house. Davis, as the story goes, was quite upset to learn that her sister wouldn't be sharing her delicious pasta. So, as a normal person does, Davis threw a plate of ravioli at her sister. The arrest report for this incident made me...

A Florida man was not lovin' it ... and clearly didn't want to live más ... after his wife got him McDonald's and Taco Bell for his birthday. St. Petersburg dentist Esha Persad, 34, was arrested and charged with battery after police responded to a call to her home after midnight last Saturday night. According to an arrest affidavit via Law&Crime, she and her husband of five years, Shiva Persad, were celebrating his birthday when an argument broke out over what they were eating on his special day. "The defendant and the victim were having an argument about the...

A Florida woman has been charged with drowning her roommate’s tiny pet spider in a can of soda — later bragging about it online, writing: “Yes I’m an evil spider killer!!” Ilena Renae Rasmussen, 43, was arrested on July 29 after texting her roommate and “admitting to drowning [her] jumping spider in ginger ale,” the Okaloosa Sheriff’s Office wrote in an affidavit obtained by the Miami Herald. She then repeatedly referred to the accusations in a series of cruel social media posts — including a photo of her holding a can of ginger ale, just like the one she allegedly...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida public school employee who faces firing because she allowed her transgender daughter to play girls high school volleyball assailed those who outed her child, saying Tuesday that the ensuing investigation destroyed the girl’s life. Jessica Norton said her daughter was thriving at Monarch High School in suburban Fort Lauderdale before an anonymous tipster notified a Broward County school board member in November that the 16-year-old was playing on the girls varsity volleyball team in apparent violation of state law. The 2021 Fairness in Women’s Sports Act bars students who were born male from...

AMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida woman was arrested after she reportedly called 911 on herself while trying to steal a car from a dealership so she “could do it legally.” Christy Turman, 37, called the Lee County Sheriff’s Office because she wanted authorities to know, deputies said. “Because I’m trying to steal a car that’s not legally mine,” Turman said during the 911 call. “So, y’all better come make a report. I’m reporting this.” Deputies arrived at the dealership a short time later, where they say they found Turman exiting the driver’s side of the stolen Toyota Corolla. The...

WI - A Florida woman was arrested after allegedly robbing a Platteville ice cream shop Thursday afternoon. The Platteville Police Department identified 45-year-old Bereta Alesandru of Spring Hill, Florida as the woman who allegedly robbed 3 Marias Ice Cream Shop in Platteville. According to the complaint, an employee in the shop referred to as Victim 1 said Alesandru walked into the store and said she needed $80 for gas. Victim 1 told police Alesandru allegedly offered air pods in exchange for the $80. According to the complaint, Alesandru was opening her purse to show the air pods and Victim 1...

ORMOND BEACH, Fla. - A Jacksonville woman is behind bars after a failed attempt to carjack an elderly couple in Ormond Beach Saturday morning, police said. Around 10:50 a.m., Ormond Beach Police said they arrived at the Exxon gas station at 1622 N US Hwy 1 in response to a report of a stolen car. They found a man holding onto the leg of 36-year-old Marvette Perry to prevent her from escaping, police said. That man told police he parked his car at the Exxon to use the bathroom and before he could exit his car, Perry was opening his...

Kira Enders and her boyfriend Dakota Jones allegedly attempted to trick lottery officials into giving them a $1 million prize with two torn scratch-off tickets spliced together to form a winning ticket, according to authorities. The two tickets were ripped horizontally with the top half of one ticket and the bottom half of the other then “carefully pieced together” to show the $1 million prize winner, according to a police report cited by the Pensacola News Journal.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd warns squatters he will be their ‘worst enemy’ and has a place for them in jail NEWS Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd warns squatters he will be their ‘worst enemy’ and has a place for them in jail “So one of the first things [to] do is change the language: ‘the bad dude.’ What does that mean? What are the circumstances of that person coming into the criminal justice system in the first place? And what is the background to that person?” she said in a 2017 interview. The Florida sheriff said the idea the...

A Florida woman has been arrested for trying to sell her daughter for $500 outside a local store - and then abandoning the child when confronted by an employee. Police said Jessica Woods, 33, was loitering around a H&R Block office in Palatka with her 18-month-old daughter, who had a bruise on her face, on March 5. An employee of the business told police that Woods had first come into the establishment at 7:40pm one evening because her baby had a soiled diaper. As Woods used the H&R Block restroom to change the child, the worker witnessed the mother hit...

A woman accused of executing her younger boyfriend and then chopping off his arms and legs almost seven years ago may be mentally unfit to stand trial. Nelci Tetley, 74, was indicted on a charge of first-degree murder in the gruesome 2017 death of 55-year-old Jeffrey Albertsman, but will most likely be committed to a mental health facility after multiple experts testified she couldn’t be restored to mental competency, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reported on Monday. Tetley was arrested in 2018 and has been jailed since. She’s accused of shooting her beau in the head and dismembering his body —...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — West Palm Beach police said they exposed a scheme by three women from Miami-Dade and Broward Counties, who demanded a payout from a restaurant, claiming there was a rock in their food that broke a tooth. The three arrests stem from an incident on Sept. 22, 2023 at the Avocado Grill located at 125 Datura St., police said. West Palm Beach police spokesman Mike Jachles said in a news release that Ann Sherry Miller, 45, of Aventura, acted as an injured diner who claimed to have broken a tooth from a rock in a salad,...

A Florida woman has found herself behind bars after she allegedly barged into a gas station while naked and drunk, threatening to kill staff members with a peeler/corer knife. Celia Barrett, 35, was arrested and charged with two counts of aggravated assault, disorderly intoxication, criminal mischief, exposure of sexual organs and trespassing after the incident that unfolded at the RaceTrac at 2551 54th Ave. in St. Petersburg, according to an arrest affidavit from the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. Barrett, who was previously trespassed from this gas station back in November, returned on Sunday evening after taking six shots of liquor,...

Extraordinary video footage shows how two scientist parents attempted to raise their infant son alongside a chimpanzee as part of a bizarre nature versus nurture experiment in 1931. Psychologists Winthrop and Luella Kellogg conducted the study on their ten-month-old son Donald and a seven-month-old chimp called Gua at their Florida home. The couple were attempting to establish if it was possible to educate an ape and teach them to communicate as a human. snip Donald took to walking around on all fours, dragging his knuckles like an ape. He would often start biting people when he became aggressive and he...

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – A Cocoa woman was arrested on Sunday after a robbery was reported at a local convenience store, according to the police department. In a probable cause affidavit, police said they were called to the store at 2009 N. Cocoa Blvd. around 11:30 p.m. on Saturday. Upon arrival, police were told that two women — identified as Mercy Thomas, 23, and Timetrea Smith, 28 —had entered the store, and began throwing food and damaging merchandise, the affidavit says. Surveillance footage showed Thomas yelling at a couple in the store before throwing a container of mac-and-cheese and some...

LAKE COUNTY, Fla. - A Florida woman has found herself behind bars after sending a series of threatening text messages to her ex-boyfriend, including a threat to kill him and his new girlfriend if they don't have sex with her, according to an arrest affidavit from the Lake County Sheriff's Office. Cynthia Ann Ray, 38, was arrested and charged with aggravated stalking and sending written threats to kill after the incident that unfolded on Christmas Day.. deputies responded to an address in Groveland in reference to "criminal mischief," the affidavit said. When they arrived, they spoke with the victim, Ray's...

Miami-Dade County The man set ablaze claims the incident happened after the suspect asked him for $60 to help fix her car; she, however, claims she was being sex trafficked. A Florida woman has been arrested after she allegedly set fire to her Tinder date and his car, which was "engulfed in flames." But Destiny Lenai Johnson, 25, and the man in question tell two very different stories when it comes to what went down during the November 25th incident. According to an arrest report, via Local 10, the two connected on Tinder and met up in person for the...