Free Republic

TAMPA (WAND) - A woman in Tampa was arrested after deputies say she put Easter eggs filled with pornographic images in residents mailboxes. NBC affiliate WFLA-TV said on April 8, Flager County deputies said they received a call about a woman placing plastic eggs into mailboxes. Deputies got information that the woman was driving a 2004 silver Honda Civic. Officials said the eggs contained pronographic images, non-threatening references to nearby churches and county building and other items. Around 11 p.m. deputies located the vehicle and completed a traffic stop on Abril Cestoni,42. Detectives say Cestoni admitted to placing the eggs...

It took 56 minutes to find the ringNearly a month after Ann DeVries got her wedding ring back, she still treats the band with extreme caution. You might, too, if you had to dig through the garbage dump to get it. In January, Ann DeVries was doing the dishes when she set her ring on the counter. When she finished, she noticed some smudges on a glass door in her home. After cleaning it, she placed the dirty paper towels over top the ring without realizing it, and since it was trash day, Wednesday, she scooped the whole pile up...

https://www.local10.com/news/local/2020/03/05/gov-ron-desantis-to-make-major-announcement/

A Florida woman who allegedly zipped her boyfriend in a suitcase and left him there to die was arrested Tuesday in his killing. Sarah Boone, 42, of Winter Park, faces a charge of second-degree murder in the death Monday of Jorge Torres Jr. Boone said she was playing a game of hide-and-seek with Torres when she zipped him into a suitcase, thinking it would be funny, according to a report by the Orange County Sheriff's Office. Boone and Torres had allegedly been drinking alcohol, and she said she went upstairs and passed out while Torres was still in the suitcase.

Police are investigating several jars of human remains found Monday underneath a Florida woman’s house. The Gainesville Police Department said Mary Baughman had a contractor out to give her a quote on work she wanted to be done on her house, but when he went to look for damage underneath the house, he found gallon-sized plastic jars of human tongues, according to the Tampa Bay Times. The labels on the jars were dated back to the late 1960s. Alarmed by what he saw, the contractor immediately called the police, according to chief inspector Jorge Campos. Although the jars had been...

A woman is now facing felony charges after resisting arrest and biting a deputy Friday, according to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office. Officers responded to a call in Palm Coast in reference to a domestic disturbance. Upon arrival, deputies met with Cherie Saunders, 38 in her driveway with her make-up smeared, no shoes, slurred speech and a heavy scent of alcohol coming from her, according to deputies. During the investigation, deputies say they determined that Saunders had slapped a male resident inside the home. When deputies were trying to resolve the situation, she became argumentative and would not cooperate with...

Police bodycam footage has emerged of the moment a six-year-old girl was escorted from her elementary school in Florida by a group of cops before being committed to a mental health facility without her parents' permission because she had a 'tantrum'. On February 4, six-year-old Nadia Falk was taken to a mental health facility without her mother's permission after staff at Love Grove Elementary School called social workers claiming the girl, who has ADHD and a personality disorder, was throwing things and harming staff. Nadia was taken to a mental health facility where she was sedated and held for 48...

CLEARWATER, Fla. (WTSP) — He wanted to split up — and she wasn’t happy about it, according to an arrest affidavit from the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. Clearwater police say when the man told his wife of nine years he thought they should separate, 69-year-old Pamela Carr pulled out a Taser and stunned him several times. According to the affidavit, she admitted to zapping him but claimed it was self-defense. Officers didn’t buy that. Carr was arrested, charged with aggravated domestic battery and released on a $1,000 bond.

The woman, who has not been identified, was caught on camera walking through the airport in her blue bra and pants just before midnight on Wednesday, singing aloud to herself. She then proceeded to remove her bra, followed by her pants, leaving her completely nude. Bemused airport staff and passengers looked on as she waved her bra in the air. Airport police have confirmed that the female, who is not from Florida, was taken into custody for a mental evaluation. They said she had been incoherent and delusional when they approached her.

Suspect didn’t want to pay 25 cents each for saucesA Florida woman who was upset when a McDonald’s employee told her that she needed to pay for dipping sauces yelled at restaurant workers and threatened to rob the fast food eatery, according to the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies said they found 19-year-old Maguire McLaughlin yelling profanities in her car in the drive-thru around 3:45 a.m. New Year’s Day. They said she was irate, smelled of alcohol, had glassy eyes and her speech was slurred. Employees said McLaughlin ordered a large amount of food and when she got...

Florida Highway Patrol troopers only meant to write a simple citation, but it quickly turned into a felony arrest after they found $1.2 million worth of cocaine. Troopers pulled over 27-year-old Elizabeth Espinoza on Tuesday afternoon after observing illegal window tint on her vehicle on Interstate 75 southbound. Troopers noticed she was acting exceedingly nervous, which stood out because of the innocuous nature of the stop.

A Florida woman was arrested for threatening to rob a McDonald’s because they did not serve dipping sauce along with her food, a report said Monday. Maguire Marie Mclaughlin, 19, was denied the condiment at a McDonald’s in Vero Beach, Fla. last week and pledged to obtain the dipping sauce “by whatever means necessary,” according to a police report obtained by The Smoking Gun.

The woman who fatally shot a home intruder in suburban Tampa last week was pregnant and used an AR-15 to kill the man, according to a news report. Jeremy King of Lithia told Bay News 9 that his wife, who is eight months pregnant, was in a back bedroom Wednesday when two men burst in at about 9 p.m. and began brutally beating King, demanding money and grabbing his 11-year-old daughter. The woman told the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office that she grabbed the weapon and shot one of the suspects once. That man was dead in a nearby ditch by...

A Florida special education teacher was arrested Monday after allegedly having sex with her son’s 15-year-old friend “several hundred times” beginning last year, a report said. Susan Weddle, 40, and the teen allegedly kicked off their relationship at the woman’s Cantonment home after the two attended her son’s football game and started drinking, according to the Pensacola News Journal, citing an arrest report.

A Florida woman called 911 to report that she had found a person dead in her driveway. Later that day the caller, Yvonne Serrano, 51, of Coral Springs, was arrested in the murder. In a recording of the Nov. 23 call, Serrano can be heard calmly explaining to the 911 dispatcher that she walked outside her home to find a car in her driveway with a woman's body next to it. Serrano said the woman was not breathing and was bleeding from her head. When the 911 operator asked if she knew the dead woman, Serrano said she "can't tell"...

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. - A woman was shot by a homeowner after breaking into a house on Strasburg Drive in Port Charlotte, according to deputies. Jessica Gutzler, 40, broke into the home around 7 p.m. then started fighting the homeowner, Robert Lafata. During the fight, Lafata said he shot Gutzler in her butt. He said Gutzler used to date one of his female friends. Gutzler then ran away, but later called 911 asking for medical assistance. Deputies found her near Strasburg Drive and Seaton Avenue, then took her to a medical facility to be treated. She will be charged...

Audio from two Amazon Echo devices has been handed over to police as they investigate the death of a Florida woman who was impaled by a spear during an argument with her husband. Silvia Galva, 32, died when a spear impaled her chest in her Hallandale Beach condo back in July. Her 43-year-old husband, Adam Crespo, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder. According to a search warrant obtained by CBS4, police requested the audio recordings from two Amazon Echo devices that the couple had in their home at the time Galva died.

FULL TITLE: Florida woman, 40, is arrested after 'giving birth to twins conceived by 17-year-old boy she was sexually assaulting for years' A Florida woman has been arrested after allegedly sexually abusing a teenage boy for years and then giving birth to twins that he fathered. According to the Volusia County Sheriff's Office, deputies received a trip in April that Spring Turner, 40, had been abusing the teen from the age of 15. They learned that she had gotten pregnant by him when he was 17 years old, reported News 6. When officers interview the victim, he told them that...

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. - A North Fort Myers woman climbed into the ceiling of a Big Lots store in Port Charlotte Thursday night to avoid a shoplifting arrest. Kristina Perkins, 37, was arrested after deputies searched the ceiling along with Charlotte County Fire Department and Facilities. The manager told deputies that Perkins went into the women's restroom with a shopping cart full of merchandise. The merchandise included candy, makeup and toys, totaling $58.67. Charlotte County deputies said the manger tried to enter the restroom to check on Perkins, but several trash cans were positioned to barricade the door. She did...

A 27-year-old Florida woman was arrested after her parents found two dozen pipe bombs in her bedroom and called the local sheriff's office, authorities said Friday. Michelle Louise Kolts was arrested early Friday and booked on 24 counts of making, possessing, throwing, projecting, placing or discharging a destructive device.