In a month and a half-long operation called “Summer Heat,” 42 sex offenders who violated registration laws were arrested. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement released this statement: “Operation Summer Heat should send a strong message to all sex offenders that Florida law enforcement is serious about registration. We are…
A retired school principal and 911 dispatcher was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison Thursday after admitting he tried to meet two teen boys for sex in Palm Beach County. The 64-year-old, who recently retired to Delray Beach from southern Indiana, was arrested in January after showing up at…
Deputies have arrested a man they claim arranged to meet a 12-year-old girl online and was caught in her home. The 24-year-old man is accused of traveling to the girl’s home on the 3100 block of 9th Street E at about 2 a.m., according to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office.…
An undercover cyber crime prostitution and child-sex sting conducted jointly by the Lake and Polk county sheriff’s offices netted 101 arrests Tuesday. Of those arrested was an Orlando community activist who drove to a Clermont-area house intending to meet what he believed was a 12-year-old girl he had been chatting…
The Polk County Sheriff’s Office arrested a 31-year-old Lakeland man and charged him with raping two children. The man is currently being held in the Polk County Jail. Authorities allege the man sexually assaulted two children, aged 10 and 12, on several occasions. Police claim the assaults took place at…
Loretta E. Lynch was announced as the new U.S. attorney general Thursday, with the Senate voting 56 to 43 to confirm the veteran New York prosecutor five months after President Obama submitted her nomination to Congress. According to the Justice Department, Lynch is expected to be sworn in as the…
A 56-year-old homeless man has been arrested and charged with molesting a child, according to reports. The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office claims the man molested a 9-year-old girl multiple times Tuesday and Wednesday at a Largo home. Officials allege that the man somehow knew the child. According to police, a…
A former Key West police officer who was recently accused of sexually abusing a minor will not be prosecuted on two charges of child molestation and one of lewd exhibition. Assistant State Attorney Val Winter, who had been prosecuting the case against the 42-year-old man, said that the charges were…
A 26-year-old Lake Wales motel manager is accused of video voyeurism. Police claim the man is the motel’s night office manager at the Budget Inn Motel and allegedly installed a camera in a guest’s bathroom. According to the arrest affidavit, the camera was facing the shower. Police believe the man…
A Gainesville man was arrested Saturday night after police allege he distributed sexually obscene photographs taken of a female who was a minor at the time the photographs were taken. According to a Gainesville Police Department report, the 36-year-old man and the female had apparently been involved in a two-year…