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The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has charged a Plant City minor with animal cruelty after seeing the worst kind of clout-chasing video circulating on social media. The video, recorded last Thursday in a Plant City Hardee's parking lot, shows a group of teens handling a juvenile alligator roughly. One uses the gator's teeth to puncture a can of Arizona Twisted Tea, then shotgun the alcoholic beverage with the young reptile still clamped to the aluminum can. “The lack of respect and responsibility shown toward this animal was disappointing to see. … This serves as a strong reminder of...

Prosecutors in Alabama are considering charging Carlee Russell with two crimes that could land her behind bars for a year if convicted of faking her disappearance when she went missing for two days. Russell could be charged with falsely reporting an incident and false reporting to law enforcement authorities, Jefferson County Chief Assistant DA Lane Tolbert told ABC News. The class A misdemeanors ​are punishable by up to one year in jail, he said. “We advise what we think the charges should be,” Tolbert told the outlet, adding that any criminal charges would be filed by the circuit clerk of...

Special Counsel Jack Smith's team of prosecutors added additional charges in to the 32-count indictment the former president was already facing for keeping classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate Thursday evening. Among the new charges are allegations that the former president allegedly told aides to 'wipe' security footage from his Florida club's server as a way to foil investigators probing the removal of classified documents from the White House. These allegations came just one day after the Department of Justice's 'sweetheart' deal with Hunter Biden sensationally collapsed, leaving the First Son susceptible to further criminal charges for alleged deals with...

NORTH FORT MYERS, Fla. (WFLA) — A woman was arrested after she allegedly chased a man with a machete Sunday at a Florida gas station, according to a report. WBBH reported that Michelle Montes-Zuniga, 48, was yelling at a man at a RaceTrac in North Fort Myers that he wasn’t allowed to be there. The man, who had previous run-ins with the woman, got on his bicycle and left the area, according to the report. Montes-Zuniga allegedly got in her car and followed him to the sidewalk, got out of her car with a machete and swung it at him....

Charges have been dropped against a New York City subway rider who stabbed and killed an unhinged straphanger after he allegedly punched his girlfriend in the face. Last month, Jordan Williams, 20, and his girlfriend were riding on the subway when a shirtless Devictor Ouedraogo, 36, began harassing the passengers aboard the Brooklyn J train, the New York Post reported.

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said on Friday that Donald Trump had “brought these charges upon himself” after the former president was notified of his indictment in an investigation into his handling of classified materials. “Mr. Trump brought these charges upon himself by not only taking classified documents, but by refusing to simply return them when given numerous opportunities to do so,” Romney said in a statement. The former Republican presidential candidate acknowledged that Trump is “entitled to the presumption of innocence” and that the government is faced with “the burden of proving its charges beyond a reasonable doubt.” However, he...

A Texas sheriff’s department has recommended that the district attorney in Bexar County bring criminal charges after completing its investigation into the first iteration of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ so-called migrant relocation program. Those flights sent 49 asylum seekers, most of them Venezuelans, from San Antonio to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, last September. According to a statement provided to the Miami Herald, the Bexar County Sheriff completed its criminal investigation into the on-the-ground operation that allegedly lured migrants onto the flights with false promises of jobs and opportunities on the other end. “The case filed includes both felony and misdemeanor charges...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a presidential candidate who proudly touts a hardline immigration stance, is uncharacteristically mum as California officials say they are investigating the circumstances by which dozens of South American migrants were flown to California, purportedly by the state of Florida. DeSantis has not confirmed or denied the state’s involvement with the flights, the first of which arrived in Sacramento on Friday. California officials said the 16 migrants who came off the plane were carrying documents that indicated they were transported through a program run by Florida’s state government. A second flight carrying about 20 migrants landed in...

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) made an apparent threat of kidnapping charges against Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) in a tweet on Monday. The California Democrat was likely referring to a recent flight of more than a dozen immigrants to Sacramento who, California Attorney General Rob Bonta said, possessed "documentation purporting to be from the government of the State of Florida." ".@RonDeSantis you small, pathetic man. This isn't Martha's Vineyard. Kidnapping charges? Read the following," Newsom tweeted, providing a link to California's penal code.

Former President Trump on Friday argued he should be cleared of wrongdoing for his handling of classified documents after the Justice Department said it would not bring charges against former Vice President Mike Pence on the issue, despite vast differences in their cases. “Just announced that they are not going to bring charges against Mike Pence on the document hoax,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “That’s great, but when am I going to be fully exonerated, I’m at least as innocent as he is.”

A Florida man spent years wondering why colleagues and coworkers questioned his alcohol consumption. He said he hadn't been drinking — especially with him working as a teacher and basketball coach — but was called into the principal's office on and off for several years. Mark Mongiardo, 40, told TODAY he worked more than 12 hours a day and credited his exhaustion and behavior changes to that. "I thought that there was something wrong with me. I wasn’t exactly sure what," Mongiardo, 40, of Florida, told TODAY.com. "I just thought I was tired all the time. My wife has on...

Dr. Ben Carson said the idea of arresting and filing charges against former President Donald Trump is “absolutely absurd” and “embarrassing.” Carson, who served as the secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Trump, was interviewed by Newsmax Sunday and did not hold back on the issue. He specifically pointed to Venezuela and how quickly that once idyllic country collapsed under this kind of political corruption. “Look how quickly Venezuela changed,” he said. “That is high in my thinking because I’ve been there several times when it was a wonderful place to visit, with beautiful resorts and hotels.” Carson pointed...

Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that nobody is above the law when asked about former President Donald Trump possibly being charged with a crime. Anchor Jake Tapper said, “Let’s start with the latest on Trump. Obviously, arresting a former president would be unprecedented in the history of the United States. We do not know what exactly charges could be filed yet. What we do know includes the idea that falsifying business records might be one of the charges. That’s a misdemeanor in New York unless prosecutors use what a lot of experts say...

A New Brunswick judge has dismissed contempt charges against two church leaders for holding church services in an outdoor tent during pandemic restrictions. The case hinged on whether an outdoor tent is a “public indoor space” as the government alleged. On Feb. 2, Chief Justice Tracey DeWare, of the Court of King’s Bench of New Brunswick, released her decision, dismissing contempt of court charges against Saint John pastor Philip James Hutchings, and church director Keith Cody Butler. The two church leaders have faced ongoing charges for allegedly violating COVID-19 public health orders while holding worship services at His Tabernacle Family...

VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. – Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said it is now recommending charges against the man accused of beating a shark with a hammer. A FWC spokesman confirmed its recommendation to News 6 Thursday afternoon. The agency has not yet said what charges the man could face, but a news release from FWC is expected sometime on Thursday. News 6 has reached out to the state attorney’s office to see if prosecutors have decided to pursue charges against the man. We are still waiting to hear back. News 6 has decided not to identify the man accused...

The man who entered the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and was photographed in the office of then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was convicted on Monday of eight federal crimes related to the incident, including four felonies. Richard “Rigo” Barnett, 62, was convicted of all the charges filed against him after nine days of testimony in the trial in Washington. The jury reached a decision in less than two hours, according to The Washington Post. His most serious conviction was obstructing an official government proceeding, with a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. His sentencing is set for...

BOISE, Idaho — The Washington Medical Commission has filed a statement of charges against Dr. Ryan Cole, who represents Ada County on the Central District Health Board of Health. The statement of charges alleges Dr. Cole made “numerous false and misleading statements” about the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccines, treatment and masks. In the statement of charges, the Washington Medical Commission writes that his comments were "harmful and dangerous to individual patients, generated mistrust in the medical profession and in public health, and had a widespread negative impact on the health and well-being of our communities.” The statement also alleges Cole "prescribed...

SANTA FE, N.M. — Moments after involuntary manslaughter charges were to be filed against Alec Baldwin and Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, First Judicial District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies spoke to CNN about the charges being filed. Transcript uh well along with my special prosecutor, we got the report from the santa fe County Sheriff's office. We initiated an extensive review of that and I will say that it was *** it was *** well investigated case, but we had some follow up that we had to do had to speak with some experts and and once we read through everything and researched the...

A Florida man accused in 2020 of attacking his parents, which killed his father and nearly killed his mother, has been found not guilty by reason of insanity. Anthony Kaptzan was evaluated by doctors appointed by the prosecution and the defense. The doctors concluded that he was insane when he carried out the attacks in May 2020. According to prosecutors, Kaptzan stabbed both his parents during an argument at the time. His father Alex was killed while his mother Ivette survived the attack. Kaptzan’s defense planned to use the insanity argument during his trial until his recent insanity diagnosis. Tampa...

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. - A Titusville man was arrested after he crashed into several cars across Brevard County during a high-speed chase while driving a stolen car Tuesday. Police said they attempted to stop 36-year-old Robert Lee Ramon Strachan of Titusville along the A. Max Memorial Bridge Parkway at 12:06 p.m. in response to a reported stolen 2021 white Chevy Silverado. Strachan allegedly fled from police driving "recklessly in wrong lanes and forcing other motorists off the road," police said. Strachan hit a 2014 Honda CRV near the intersection of South Street and Cheney Highway, left the scene, and "intentionally"...