Crime

DAYTONA BEACH SHORES, Fla. -- "'That's a wrap!"

ORANGE CITY, Fla. -- Volusia County sheriff’s deputies tracked down a male prisoner several hours after he walked out of the Volusia County Branch Jail early Friday and returned him to custody without incident.

WINTER PARK, Fla. -- A man died early Saturday after an argument turned to gunfire at a bar in Winter Park, Orange County deputies said.

KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- Deputies responded Friday to 8826 Interlocking Court, in Kissimmee in reference to a residential burglary the previous night.

DELAND, FLa. – A Deltona man was sentenced Thursday to 35 years in a state prison facility on 30 counts of possession of child pornography.

DELAND, Fla. – A 40-year-old DeLand man was sentenced today to 30 years in prison followed by a lifetime of sexual predator probation for repeatedly raping a 12-year-old led to his arrest in 2016 after the mother found out about the situation and called the cops.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Never in his worst nightmare did Sanford Mayor Jeff Triplett ever dream he'd make national headlines of his own 3 1/2 years after a jury in Seminole County acquitted George Zimmerman of second-degree murder in the 2012 shooting death of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.

DELAND, Fla -- Alvin Mortimer, a Deltona resident with a lengthy criminal record who has repeatedly baited County Councilwoman Heather Post in Facebook rants apparently got too close for comfort in confronting her in an aggressive manner during a break in a recent public meeting that convinced a judge earlier today to slap him with a year-long restraining order.

DELAND, Fla -- Laralee Spear, figuratively and litteally, was the girl next door when she met her cruel fate 25 years ago today to be exact.

WINTER PARK, Fla -- The band director at Winter Park High School, accused of possessing a pornographic video in which he allegedly had sex with an underage teenage boy, has bonded out of the Orange County jail, authorities said.