Crime

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Florida Highway Patrol traffic homicide investigators have arrested 20-year-old Osbaldo Patino Vazquez of Ocoee on five counts of vehicular homicide following a lengthy investigation into a fatal crash that occurred on March 11, 2021, at Claracona Ocoee Road and Gaymar Drive.

PORT ORANGE, Fla. -- Two men were shot and killed this morning in an apparent drive-by shooting at the Sunrise Pointe Apartments on Richel Drive, cops said.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- A 20-year-old student at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, was arrested Thursday on 28 felony counts of possessing child pornography, Daytona Beach cops said.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- A 39-year-old man is now in custody on various charges, including false imprisonment, following a nearly 4-hour standoff Wednesday night with police at a Daytona Beach apartment complex, Daytona Beach cops said.

LAKE MARY, Fla. - Winter Park's police chief has been placed on administrative leave following his arrest Wednesday by the Seminole County Sheriff's Office on domestic violence charges.

SANFORD, Fla. -- Sanford police investigators arrested Da’raveius Smith, 16, on a count of attempted homicide murder first-degree premeditated and three other major felonies in connection with the shooting that student an older student at Seminole High School to the hospital with three gunshot wounds.

SANFORD, Fla. -- Just before noon today, school resource officers were advised there was a gun on campus at Seminole High School and moments later were informed by students of gunshots fired leading to one student being shot three times.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood and Orlando Police Chief Orlando Rolón agreed in mid-December to pool resources in an effort to take down violent serial rape suspect Leslie Lagrotta, who is wanted in a series of sexual batteries in Orlando and greater Daytona Beach from 1988 to 1998.

PONCE INLET, Fla. -- A husband and wife have been arrested on murder and burglary charges in Wednesday's shooting death of an 89-year-old woman who lived alone in an upscale condo complex.

PONCE INLET, Fla. -- An elderly woman was shot and killed in her home early on this Wednesday morning, Ponce Inlet police said, adding it id being treated as a homicide and that two suspects who were known to the victim were in custody.