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A Florida mom was arrested after she intentionally hit another parent's car in a road rage fit while dropping off her child at an elementary school, according to the Marion County Sheriff's Office. Jennifer Perez was arrested and charged with felony aggravated battery using a deadly weapon, according to an affidavit. The incident happened Monday morning at Reddick-Collier Elementary School in Reddick, a town about 14 miles north of Ocala. A Marion County Sheriff's Office deputy arrived at the scene to assist Florida Highway Patrol, who said a car collision occurred – but it was intentional, according to the affidavit....

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - A Volusia County woman suspected of killing her 79-year-old roommate allegedly doused herself in soda in an attempt to erase possible evidence on her body, according to an arrest affidavit. She poured diet Mountain Dew all over her body when police told her they were going to collect her DNA as part of the investigation, authorities said. Her DNA was later found on the handle of a bloody knife found lying next to the victim's body at the Daytona Beach home they shared, the affidavit stated. Nichole Maks, 35, was booked into the Volusia County jail...

Living in Florida is expensive. You almost have to have a side hustle just to get by. But one woman in Lakeland, Florida launched a side hustle so lucrative she made it her full time gig. She makes jewelry out of breastmilk. No breastmilk? She can also make jewelry from cremation ashes, hair, placenta or umbilical cord. Personalized keepsakes. According to Good News Network, Rachel Heinze of Lakeland left her job as “a professional neuroscientist that specialized in concussions before quitting her job to stay at home with the kids.” That’s quite a leap, but she’s reportedly making $30K a...

A Florida man and woman were arrested after law enforcement officials found 30 lbs. of methamphetamine and a kilo of cocaine in their vehicle following a chase. According to investigators, on Thursday, July 27, a Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) Trooper requested assistance from the Indian River Sheriff’s Office (IRCSO) to apprehend a fleeing vehicle driving recklessly over 100 mph on SR 60 approximately 1 mile west of I95. Deputies say during the pursuit, the vehicle stopped on the side of the road, and two occupants fled into a dense wooded area. The FHP Trooper and multiple deputies, along with an...

A Florida woman was arrested after biting the top of another woman's ear off during a fight over vape pens and alcohol on July 4th, according to the Bay County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies responded to an assault and battery call at a home in Callaway, a suburb of Panama City, just after midnight. An investigation revealed the incident had occurred at a house party next door at 6526 Olokee Street that was thrown by unsupervised minors. When a fight kicked off between several men at the house party, 23-year-old Macy Regan attempted to leave and walk to her home next...

FEATURED CNN Roasted Over Sob Story of Liberals ‘Fleeing’ Florida – ‘Don’t Let The Door Hit You in the A**’ By Augustus LeRoux On Jul 29, 2023 Copy Link Print A CNN sob story this week about a liberal family fleeing the Sunshine State caught no sympathy from Floridians. In an interview published Wednesday, Tiffiney and Kelly McKee say they have been forced to move due to the state’s “political climate and laws”– specifically the ban on transgender surgeries for minors signed by Governor DeSantis last May. The couple has two children, including a son who is confused about his...

PENSACOLA, Fla. (WEAR) — A Florida woman was arrested after police say she refused to exit a plane at Pensacola International Airport and then ran from officers near the runway. Dorissa Owens, 35, is charged with trespassing. She is being held in Escambia County Jail on $3,000 bond. The incident happened Monday around 8:15 p.m. Police responded to Gate 5 at the airport for an unruly passenger. According to the arrest report, the Envoy Air Supervisor said Owens was being unruly on the plane. The report states she borrowed an unknown man's cell phone and went to the back of...

Ladies, if you’re hitting up a Chipotle in Fort Myers, Florida you might want to reconsider sending your husband to pick up the order. There’s allegedly a husband stealing employee at one of the locations. According to several Yelp reviews there’s a woman by the name of Lucy who likes to seduce married men. The controversy appears to have started last month when the first review warning women of the husband stealing employee popped up. The warning was not the only one. There were several all pointing the finger at a mystery employee named Lucy, who allegedly has a thing...

We aren't pulling your leg: This is a real headline. VIDEO AT LINK.......... Here's what the story says: The Florida man who allegedly murdered his pregnant boyfriend and stole the life of the victim's unborn child has a lengthy history of terrorizing the people in his life, as indicated in court documents. Riley John Groover, 26, shot and killed himself after carrying out the homicide, the Polk County Sheriff's Office in Florida said. You're probably a bit confused right now if you still have a toddler's grasp on reality. A "pregnant boyfriend"? Here, let some actual journalists clear it up:...

WELLBORN, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida woman was accused of stealing a fire truck and impersonating a firefighter earlier this month. The Suwannee County Sheriff’s Office said Belinda Delores Waugh, 44, allegedly took off with a fire truck on July 15 after spending the night at the Wellborn Volunteer Fire Department station. When the fire chief visited the station to respond to a call, he discovered the truck was gone. The sheriff’s office said he received a phone call from Waugh stating the fire truck ran out of gas in Live Oak, which is about 10 miles away from Wellborn....

NOCATEE, Fla. – Jennifer Ruotolo is busy packing up her life after bringing home a 2023 Mercedes Benz EQE350+. Her Nocatee home was destroyed in a fire sparked by the electric car. It was a loaner from Mercedes Benz while her personal car was getting serviced.

A Florida court awarded a mother $800,000 from McDonald's after her daughter received second-degree burns from a piping hot McNugget that fell on her lap in 2019. The jury reached the verdict after less than two hours of deliberation Wednesday afternoon. They allotted $400,000 in damages for the past four years, and $400,000 for the future. The family's attorney had asked for an award of $15million. The mother of the child, Philana Holmes, said she was happy that the court had been receptive to her daughter's story, adding she felt the jury's award was fair. 'I’m happy with that. I...

PADUCAH, Ky. (KFVS) - A woman from Florida was arrested twice on Sunday, July 16, after she attempted to steal a vehicle in Paducah, Kentucky, then after getting out of jail, stole a separate vehicle from outside the public library downtown. According to a release from the Paducah Police Department, 59-year-old Yamila Laborde was first arrested at 12:47 p.m. near Walmart on Hinkleville Road. Police say a Paducah man reported he was loading groceries in the back of his Dodge pickup truck, while his wife was sitting in the passenger seat when a woman stole his truck. Laborde reportedly got...

LEE COUNTY, Fla. — Chances are, if you watch or read the news, you’ve probably heard the term “Florida Man” before. In fact, it became such a famous headline that it even became a meme. But where did this stereotype of Florida man being the wild, eccentric, larger-than-life image come from? “So that’s what Florida man evokes, its a sort of lawlessness, a sort of eccentricity, and its something that is also pegged to what makes Florida unique as a state,” said Dr. Landon Frim, a Philosophy Professor from Florida Gulf Coast University. As far as you can read into...

A man fled a home and hid in a nearby bush after a woman armed with a machete threatened to cut off his genitals. A Marion County sheriff’s deputy responded at about 2 a.m. Tuesday to the couple’s home in Summerfield. The man, who was carrying his infant daughter, was out of breath and soaked in sweat. The man said he had been in bed sleeping when 44-year-old Dawn Marie Hildebrant went through his phone. She smashed the phone and began screaming at the man before grabbing a machete and “threatening to cut off his genitals,” the report said. The...

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....

A Florida woman threatened to slice her ex-boyfriend "like she was gutting a deer" two days before police say she murdered her new lover, the slain man's friend told Fox News Digital. Brittany Holbrook, 33, allegedly shot Tyler Nulisch, 30, in the back early Saturday morning at their Key West home, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by Fox News Digital. Two days earlier, Holbrook went out for drinks with a woman who was dating one of Nulisch's friends. After a few drinks, she allegedly brought up her ex-boyfriend, the woman told Nulisch's friend Jessica Stiegel. "I'm going to kill...

A Florida woman was shoplifting inside a retail store when she left two children unattended in a vehicle that burst into flames, police said. Alicia Moore, 24, an Orlando resident, is charged with aggravated child neglect and arson, FOX Orlando reported. On May 26, Moore parked her car outside a Dillard’s department store at the Oviedo Mall and left two children “who could not care for themselves” inside the vehicle, authorities said. She then went into the store and began shoplifting with a man, police said. After about an hour, Moore left the store and found her vehicle engulfed in...

A woman was arrested and charged with DUI and reckless driving after ploughing down a busy beach in Florida, narrowly missing children and families in the water.

POLK COUNTY, Fla. — The Polk County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) arrested Ashlyn Crews, 24, from Mulberry, for stalking and filing a false police report. Crew works for the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office as a telecommunicator. Cruz allegedly called detectives on May 26 to report a man she claimed was photographing her daughter while she was at a UPS location in Mulberry. Crews told police she confronted the man and could access his phone but did not find any pictures of her daughter. Crews told authorities that she saw several pictures of children on the man’s phone and photos of her...