Crime

Feds: Ex-State Rep. Dwayne Taylor of Daytona sentenced in US District Court in Orlando to 13 months in prison

ORLANDO, FLA. – U.S. District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza earler today sentenced former Florida House of Representatives member Dwayne L. Taylor,  50, of Daytona Beach, to 13 months in federal prison for wire fraud.

City of DeLand honors Clerk of Court Laura Roth with proclamation for contributing to betterment of Spring Hill community

DELAND, Fla. -- When crack cocaine first hit the streets in the mid-1980s, an already-impoverisherd and historically black community by the name of Spring Hill outside the DeLand city limits had become a major drug den for the better part of the next two decades -- its poor and law abiding citizens caught in the cross fire between rival drug dealers.

Daytona Beach Shores cops: Death of woman, 34, in Hawaiian Inn under investigation as a homicide

DAYTONA BEACH SHORES, Fla. -- The death of 34-year-old female in a motel room is being investigated as a homicide, cops said. She was identified Sunday as Olympia Cerruti, 34.

 

Ambush killings of 2 Kissimmee cops gives Edgewater officer reason to think about his own mortality

City

EDGEWATER, Fla. -- On Aug. 19, two Kissimmee police officers were killed in a shootout. Later that weekend, an officer in Volusia County named Charles Geiger got ready for his overnight shift in Edgewater – and thought about what might happen on his shift. 

CREEPY: Seminole County Sheriff's Office asking public's help in IDing man trying to get into Longwood woman's home through pool area

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LONGWOOD, FLA. -- Talk about creepy! Some guy was trying to get inside a Longwood-area woman's home through the pool area, looking into windows and trying to open a door once inside the screened-in porch surrounding the pool under the cover of darkness, a Seminole County Sheriff's official said.

Rookie Sheriff Mike Chitwood got a $54,000 job for his gal-pal campaign mgr and a $280K armoured vehicle is budgeted, but what he most desires is control of Beach Safety & the Branch Jail

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- County Manager Jim Dinneen has given rookie Sheriff Mike Chitwood lots of goodies since he took office on Jan. 1: In fact, Daytona's former top cop was able to reward his bright young gal-pal campaign manager, Janelle Homan, with a plumb job as a PR specialist shooting videos and feel-good pics with a salary of $54,000 a year. That's a whopping 20 grand more than what a starting deputy would make if Chitwood were to actually hire one.  

Seminole County Sheriff's Office seeks public's help in identifying two men who burglarized an AT&T store near Winter Springs

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By HENRY FREDERICK
Headline Surfer

WINTER SPRINGS, Fla. -- Seminole County Sheriff’s Investigators are asking the public's help identifying two burglary suspects who broke into the AT&T Wireless store near Winter Springs, early last month.

Overkill: 65 cops, a tank-like vehicle and 2 SWAT teams against a lonely drunken man who never pointed a weapon at anyone

DAYTONA BEACH SHORES, Fla. – Sunrise was still 10 minutes from peeking through when the ebb and flow sound of the rolling surf on the far side of A1A was interrupted by the loud shrieking screams of a man with his cell phone in his left hand and a 12-ounce can of Budweiser in the other.