When police make a drug arrest it is often the result of a traffic stop, a police investigation, or someone calling the police to report suspicious activity. It is unusual for an arrest on drug charges to follow from the suspect calling the police himself. But that is...
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Broward County woman charged with biting grandmother
Not all family violence cases fit common pattern of a husband or live-in boyfriend accused of assaulting his partner. In a recent case, a 21-year-old woman from Dania Beach is accused of biting her 73-year-old grandmother. The younger woman now faces domestic violence...
Lee County woman arrested on prescription fraud charges
Drug arrests do not always involve street drugs like marijuana or cocaine. Drug charges arising out of prescription drug abuse can have consequences for the accused that are just as serious as those involving street drugs. A Lee County woman may find this out the hard...
Mandatory sentences come under criticism
About 30 years ago Congress and many state legislatures began getting tough on crime by enacting mandatory sentences for convictions on certain felony charges, including many types of drug cases. Now many researchers are saying the tough sentencing laws have gone too...
Teenager charged with murder of security guard
A 16-year-old youth has been is facing multiple felony charges, including a first-degree murder charge, in connection with the fatal shooting of a security guard and two ATM robberies. Police have requested that he be tried as an adult. In Florida, a person arrested...
Man charged in cigarette crime spree
A Hollywood, Florida man is facing multiple theft charges arising out of a string of burglaries from Broward County convenience stores. The 35-year-old man allegedly broke into at least eight stores earlier this year and stole cartons of cigarettes. When police...
Felony conviction bars activist from running for office
In Florida, those convicted of a felony face serious penalties, often including prison time and probation. But a conviction on felony charges carries other far reaching consequences, including loss of the right to vote. A man who attempted to run for a position on the...
Teen gets 20 years in middle school beating case
In a highly publicized case, a South Florida teenager who viciously beat a 15-year-old girl at a middle school bus stop was sentenced to 20 years in prison recently. The judge imposed the stiff sentence despite evidence the defendant, who was 15 at the time of the...
Argument over music leads to domestic violence arrest
A Florida man's taste in music allegedly started a fight that landed his boyfriend in jail recently. The 24-year-old man was arrested after allegedly hitting the victim in the face with a plate, according to a police report. The 24-year-old was arrested on domestic...
Felony murder charges filed in pepper spray robbery case
A 20-year-old man has been charged with felony murder in connection with the death of a woman during an alleged robbery at a Weston truck stop. He is the second man facing felony charges in the case; a 21-year-old suspect was arrested a week earlier. The murder...

