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Fifty-six years after a Florida milkman vanished after doing his route, the mystery of his murder has been solved, closing one of the oldest cold casesA murderous mystery has finally been solved as fifty-six years after the truth behind a Florida milkman's death has been uncovered. The man failed to return home after his rounds, and now the mystery has been solved, closing the oldest cold case in Indian River County Sheriff’s Office history. Two people who say the suspect confessed to them helped investigators finally understand who killed Hiram “Ross” Grayam, a decorated World War II veteran who...

A Florida man and woman were arrested after law enforcement officials found 30 lbs. of methamphetamine and a kilo of cocaine in their vehicle following a chase. According to investigators, on Thursday, July 27, a Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) Trooper requested assistance from the Indian River Sheriff’s Office (IRCSO) to apprehend a fleeing vehicle driving recklessly over 100 mph on SR 60 approximately 1 mile west of I95. Deputies say during the pursuit, the vehicle stopped on the side of the road, and two occupants fled into a dense wooded area. The FHP Trooper and multiple deputies, along with an...

INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) — A couple's scheme was uncovered when detectives said they found a woman attempting to smuggle narcotics to be boyfriend in jail. Detectives with the Indian River County Sheriff's Office said they were alerted in mid-August about an inmate attempting to smuggle narcotics into their jail facility. 26-year-old inmate Alexander McKay and his girlfriend, Christine Ammon had planned on bringing drug-infused paper into the facility disguised as mail. The sheriff's office said when the fake mail arrived the the jail, it was intercepted by detectives and sent to a local crime lab for testing. It...

INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, Fla. — An Indian River County man on trial in connection with a deadly 2017 SWAT raid in Gifford was found not guilty of five of the six charges Friday. Andrew Coffee IV was charged with second-degree murder of his 21-year-old girlfriend and three counts of attempted murder of law enforcement after the raid led to an exchange of gunfire. He was also acquitted of shooting or throwing a deadly missile. The sheriff's office claimed Coffee IV fired shots first at deputies during an early-morning search warrant for narcotics at his Gifford home four years ago. According...

A pair of alcohol-impaired elementary school P.E. teachers entered the wrong Florida home, and one eventually shot a man who lived there. Two Florida elementary school physical education teachers have been accused of entering the wrong apartment, and one of the intruders shot an actual tenant who lived there.

AFlorida man confessed Tuesday afternoon to killing his 67-year-old fiancee at their home and driving her body to a local Walmart parking lot. Sebastian Police responded to a Walmart parking lot Tuesday at 7:46 a.m. after reports of a possibly deceased woman in a vehicle. According to a statement from Police Chief Daniel Acosta, when officers arrived at the scene they discovered a woman dead inside a black Chevrolet pickup truck. The victim was identified as 67-year-old Jeanine Bishop from Sebastian, Florida. According to Acosta, Bishop's fiancee Michael Despres, 56, was at the Walmart when detectives questioned him. Several studies...

Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton praised a teenager Wednesday for secretly switching her valedictorian speech in order to criticize a new Texas law banning abortions after an unborn baby has a heartbeat. he former First Lady tweeted her support for Lake Highlands High School valedictorian Paxton Smith, who pulled an unapproved valedictorian speech from her bra at the lectern on graduation day and delivered a speech about Texas’s Heartbeat Act. “This took guts,” Clinton tweeted. “Thank you for not staying silent, Paxton.” The new Texas law bans abortions after the unborn baby has a heartbeat. By the end of the...

A dramatic new video has been released of a Florida man who led police on a wild high-speed chase in Indian River County right before he threw his infant baby at a deputy. Deputy Jacob Kurby caught the flying baby as other deputies rushed in to arrest 32-year-old John Henry James III. The Indian River County Sheriff’s Office shared a video of the arrest on Friday. Cops said John Henry James, 32, was driving erratically in Vero Beach, Fla., on May 26. An officer attempted to pull James over, but he sped off instead, according to an arrest report. That...

<p>A pursuit came to an end when a Florida man bailed out of the car he was driving and tossed a 2-month-old baby at deputies, according to the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office.</p><p>Deputies said they spotted a Nissan Rogue that failed to maintain its lane on 20th Street around 6:30 p.m. on May 26 and when an unmarked vehicle attempted to conduct a traffic stop, the driver of the Nissan refused to pull over.</p>

A Florida man who was arrested last October now faces 90 days in jail after pleading no contest to battery charges from when he spat on another Florida man who was wearing a pro-Trump MAGA hat. Matthias Ajple, 43, made the plea and was found guilty and sentenced Thursday to 90 days in the Indian River County Jail as well as to have no further contact with the victim and pay the victim $155 plus probation , according to the report from Newsweek.

“Primarily you are looking at taxpayers’ dollars that provide EBT cards, that are ultimately buying drugs,” said Sheriff Deryl Loar, of the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office in Florida. Electronic Benefit Transfer cards (EBT) allow individuals receiving government benefits such as food stamps to charge products to the government when they shop. The Indian River County Sheriff’s Office tells WPEC-TV that career criminal Anthony Wheeler is not the first accused drug dealer found taking payment for drugs with taxpayer-funded electronic benefit cards. …