The Pablo Ibar 2018 trial — the fifth time Pablo will be tried for the triple homicide known as the Casey’s Nickelodeon Murders — was scheduled to begin weeks ago. But new developments for both the prosecution and defense pushed Pablo’s trial back yet again. And a new complication has just arisen, in the form…
The Casey’s Nickelodeon murders remain unsolved despite 24 years’ worth of accrued evidence against the two main suspects. Pablo Ibar (pictured above, following his most recent arrest in 2016) and Seth Penalver have been the focus of seven separate trials, one hung jury, two death sentences, and two successful appeals, but neither man has been…
A Florida man’s Big Penis Defense could save him from a life sentence in the choking trial of his deceased girlfriend–but, according to the judge weighing the evidence, there could be one big catch. Richard Patterson, 65, of Margate FL, rose to viral infamy when his second-degree murder charge went to trial. Patterson is accused…
Down in Florida a man’s best friend will allegedly do more than eat your homework! According to an incident report from the Jacksonville Police Department, a Florida man is claiming that his dog Diesel accidentally shot his girlfriend in the leg. The unidentified 25-year-old male said that he was snoozing next to his lady friend…
Pet store owners foiled the plans of a Florida man who attempted to steal a python by stuffing it in his pants in hopes of slithering out the front door undetected. Pinellas County police said that Mr. Travis Treder made his way into Animal House Pet Center and tried to hijack the reptile by hiding…
The internet is awash in “Jax Taylor quits” rumors today, thanks to a few eyebrow-raising comments the Vanderpump Rules fixture recently made on Twitter. It’s being said that Taylor, who is perhaps best known for stealing sunglasses while on vacation last summer, is potentially displeased with the amount of attention former girlfriend and #PumpRules co-star…
A 22-year-old Florida man was eaten by an 11-foot alligator while trying to hide from the police, according to authorities from Brevard County. The body of Matthew Riggins was identified Monday after it was found in a lake on November 23. Investigators believe Riggins drowned as a result of an alligator attack. WFTV reports that…
Cathy Bernstein tried to flee the scene last week after ramming another driver. The Florida woman might have gotten away with her crimes, too–if it weren’t for her meddling…car!?! Police in Port St. Lucie, Florida responded to a hit-and-run call from Anna Preston, who claimed that someone in a black car had rear ended her…
A Florida police officer has been dismissed from his job with prejudice after getting onstage with a death metal band while in full uniform and singing a song called “Let The Killing Begin.” Officer Andrew Ricks helped long-running death metal band Vital Remains open their Sanford FL show by coming onstage with the band, throwing up the devil horns sign,…
A Florida couple has been arrested and charged with a bevy of crimes after a SWAT team called to their mobile home was forced to wait outside while the couple had sex. Why would a SWAT team wait, you ask? And what did the couple look like? It is a sordid tale. Florida couple Ryan…
23-year-old Whitney Beall was arrested over the weekend in Lakeland, Florida after she used Twitter’s video feed app, Periscope, to live stream herself driving drunk. In the clip, Beall’s speech is heavily slurred. She starts off saying, “Hi, guys…I’m driving home drunk. Let’s see if I get a DUI. In the USA, people! Let’s see…
Occasionally there are cases that make you scratch your head and really question the American legal system. Case in point: Judge Jerri Collins from Seminole County, Florida, sentenced a domestic violence victim to three days in jail after the unnamed woman failed to appear at her alleged attacker’s trial. According to footage from the sentencing…
The decision from the Sarasota County School District in Florida to pay the families of three deceased students $200,000 each ends the long, strange story that began four years ago when the students died in separate incidents after getting hypnotized by then-principal George Kenney. Despite the settlement, the attorney representing the three families told the…
Florida Senate candidate Augustus Sol Invictus has admitted to two acts that you don’t normally hear about from politicians: sacrificing a goat, and then drinking its blood in a pagan ritual. Why? Well, the Libertarian Party’s candidate is also a devout follower of Thelema, and the sacrifice and blood ritual were intended to give thanks for…
A Florida supermarket fight–the second such throwdown this summer–recently broke out because of a misunderstanding regarding a chicken dinner. The fight has gone viral, and inspired a bevy of cheeky Twitter hashtags, including the increasingly popular #floridapoultrybrigade. According to local media, the Florida supermarket fight began when the recipient of most of the violence, 59-year-old…
A Florida man disemboweled his girlfriend during rough sex when the girlfriend cried out an ex-husband’s name. According to the police report the Florida man admitted he turned into a “monster” after the girlfriend said the name. Florida man Fidel Lopez, 24, of Broward County FL, is accused of killing girlfriend Maria Nemeth, 31, by pulling out her intestines….
A Florida woman has been arrested and charged with a number of serious crimes after officers checking up on a probation violation stumbled upon her house–which had been booby-trapped with 3,700 knives. Florida woman Nickcole Dykema, 47, has been arrested and is being held without bail following this past week’s events. On Tuesday, officers went to Dykema’s home intending…
A 91-year-old Florida man has been arrested and charged with a variety of crimes after a spat over lawn clippings ended with the Florida man pulling a gun on his neighbor’s landscapers. Florida man Max Horton, 91, of Avon Park, became enraged when, according to the arrest report, landscaper Robert Hendrix accidentally got some lawn…
Want a little shooting range alcohol with your target practice? Thanks to an indoor shooting range down Florida way, you’ll soon be able to have both. Volusia Top Gun, a noted Daytona Beach facility, has won the right to serve alcohol in a restaurant on the premises. Ron Perkinson, owner of the Volusia Top Gun range and…
Why are there so many sinkholes in Florida? The question is a common one, and took on a new urgency this week after the re-opening of a Floridian sinkhole two years after it swallowed a man’s bedroom in the dead of night. Jeff Bush, of Tampa, was sucked into the sinkhole in February of 2013–while his brother Jeremy watched…
A Florida man has been arrested and charged with a bevy of crimes after bring his 16-year-old daughter and her 17-year-old friend to a stip club and encouraging them to dance onstage. The dancing, of course, came after this Florida man fed the pair alcohol…and other drugs. Jose Manuel Arguelles, 59, of the greater Miami…
Andreya Giansanti, a cast member on CMT’s upcoming reality show Gainesville, was recently arrested and charged with DUI. The 26-year-old was arrested shortly after midnight on August 6th after causing an accident, according to a police report obtained by the Gainesville Sun. According to the report, Giansanti caused the accident when she pulled her white Audi Cabriolet…
Call it Kardashian fatigue: a Florida journalist has become a viral sensation and drawn praise from many viewers who’ve given voice to this common syndrome. How’d he do it? Check out the raw footage as the news anchor walks off set in the middle of a segment on the family–specifically, on the name Kylie Jenner selected for…
A Florida pastor is being called a hero after he interrupted his sermon to stop–by way of forceful tackle–a burglar attempting to rob the church. Florida pastor Les Snodgrass, of Melbourne-based The Door Christian Fellowship Church, was holding forth on a sermon entitled “The Value of Life” when he saw occasional parishoner John Grace…
A Florida man has been arrested and charged with a bevy of crimes despite his attempts at chewing off his own fingerprints in order to escape detection. Florida man Kenzo Roberts, 20, of Lee County, was held by Lee County police after being caught driving a stolen 2015 Mercedes. Police quickly found out that…
A Florida man has been indicted and will go to court after a fight over dog poop in his front yard turned deadly. Omar Rodriguez’s victim died of two gunshot wounds following the altercation last month. According to the Miami Herald, Rodriguez, 66, of Kendall FL, became violent during an argument with neighbor Jose Rey…
A Florida man has been arrested and charged with a bevy of crimes after an extensive undercover operation revealed his theft of more than $2 million in simple, fun Lego products. The Florida man, Ignatius M. Pollara, 49, hails from Tamarac FL, but didn’t limit his thievery to the greater Miami area–he told authorities that…
Florida woman Annette Kielhurn, 57, of Pinellas County, has been arrested twice in three weeks for spats with her former lover. The most recent of the two arrests involved assault with a loving weapon, and took place after Kielhurn first threatened, and then struck her ex in the face with a dildo. Kielhurn was…
Florida man Triston Horne was spending the night at his ex-wife’s house when things, and a sex toy, broke bad. According to a probable cause affidavit obtained by TSG, the pair got into a heated argument in his ex-wife, Misty Clark’s, bedroom. Clark went to the bathroom to compose herself but Horne busted in…
There are certain cases where the things people post on social media warrant them getting fired. I’m just not sure this is one of those instances: Florida man Ryan Uhler says he was fired from his job as a digital marketing special because he joked he wants to marry his dog. In a post…
Arthur Booth, 49, appeared in court on Thursday for a bond hearing following an arrest in which police said he broke into a home, stole a car, and fled from authorities. Presiding Miami-Dade County Judge Mindy Glazer shuffled her papers before taking Booth by surprise with her first inquiry: “I have a question…
Florida man Gary Elliott has been arrested and charged with a bevy of crimes after police found him riding a tricycle at two o’ clock in the morning while bearing two bags full of 73 guns. Elliott began his evening by cutting a hole in the roof of Al’s Army Navy store in Orlando, and climbed…
We’re halfway through the year, which means we’re also halfway through the annual harvest of crazy Florida crime stories! So far, 2015’s provided a pretty solid crop. Here are the top five Florida crime stories of the year–so far. Click each headline to see the full story! 5. Florida woman stops traffic to masturbate…
A Florida man has been arrested and charged with a handful of interesting crimes–and gotten into some hot water with his friends–after he inadvertantly exposed his own illegal cockfighting ring by ordering a pizza to his barn. 38-year-old Eliut Jose Serrano Hernandez ordered just one pizza to his home down in Polk County FL, but…
A Florida woman has been arrested and charged with a handful of crimes after police officers, looking into an unrelated incident, discovered pit bull sex selfies on her phone. Authorities in Bradenton arrested Florida woman Ashley Miller, 18, after finding seventeen photos of ” a canine performing oral sex on an unknown white female”…
He wasn’t wearing a cape, or tights, or pants of any kind–and he couldn’t break the handcuffs–but for one brief, shining moment, Florida man Joshua Masciarelli was, indeed, Superman. In his own heart, anyway. Masciarelli, 23, of Tampa FL, was arrested this weekend for a handful of slight but meaningful crimes. Police found the Florida man…
A Florida man has been arrested and charged with a bevy of crimes after making a bomb out of a bowling ball and attempting to destroy a house with it. Tyler Butler, a 21-year-old Florida man from down Loxahatchee way, was responsible for the cartoonish deed. Authorities first showed up at a foreclosed home in response to…
A 31-year-old Florida man will not be charged with a crime after his May 1st attempt at homemade fireworks destroyed his condo and left him without both arms. Justin McHenry, a Florida man of Cape Coral, lost both arms to the elbows in an explosion that also destroyed his kitchen and damaged a…
It was a busy weekend for Florida. In addition to the man who tried to sell a live shark outside a Publix, we bring you this tale: A 44 year-old Florida man was recently arrested and charged with a bevy of crimes after he called 911 to brag about his muscles and ask the dispatcher…
A Florida man has gotten national attention for his simple act of fishmongery. Patrick Lanier, of Fort Lauderdale FL, recently attempted to sell a shark he happened to catch on the intercoastal waterway. The way he went about trying to sell the creature, though, raised more than a few eyebrows. Shortly after Lanier–who maintains he…
A Florida man has been arrested for dancing illegally. He wasn’t naked in the middle of the road, like so many arrested Florida dancers of yore. He didn’t have an unwilling partner, as has been the case with Florida men before. And he wasn’t especially high–at least, not according to the police report….
Every once in awhile, a story about a person asking the police for help scoring drugs pops up, and we all laugh–rightfully so. This particular story, though, might be the one to top them all. And, of course, it takes place in Florida. The trouble began when a young man named Meltz Celestin, aged…
When police officers pulled Florida woman Cateria Thomas over, it was because she had an altered temporary tag on her license plate, and an unrestrained child in her lap. The scene they found in the car once Thomas was on the side of the road was rather worse. Thomas was arrested on charges of…
George Zimmerman reportedly suffered a minor gunshot wound in Florida today during an apparent road rage incident with another driver. Lake Mary Police Chief Steve Bracknell told WESH the shooting involved Zimmmerman and one other man and occurred shortly before 2 p.m. He explained the encounter may have been related to an “ongoing dispute” between…
Florida pediatric dentist Howard Schneider is now under investigation by the state and is facing a class-action lawsuit from people who claim his practice is a “sadistic and systematic scheme of physical and psychological torture and abuse.” In the lawsuit filed in Duval County, Florida, four plaintiffs claim Dr. Schneider practice was a “house of…
A fast-thinking Florida mom used an online order to Pizza Hut to notify authorities that she and her children were being held hostage by her boyfriend. Cheryl Treadway, along with her three children, were held hostage at knifepoint by Ethan Nickerson Monday afternoon. During the terrifying ordeal she managed to get permission from Nickerson to…
Florida man Jeff Waters had no reason to expect that his transaction at his local Bank of America would go any differently than any other. After all, he had his identification on him; he had the check he wanted to fill out, and he had signed it properly; and he wasn’t–to the best of…
A Florida police officer has been fired and may face criminal charges after he ignored a 911 call for 50 minutes in order to finish having lunch. Lee County deputy Yvan Fernandez was dispatched to the house of Gwen Minnis, a 47-year-old woman who had just been released from the hospital after suffering a…
Bridget Olinda Garcia, 32, of Port St. Lucie FL, has been charged with child abuse after driving away from her home with her son on the hood of her car. The comedy began when Garcia took her oldest child’s phone away from him as punishment for an undisclosed act. This started a fight between…
A Florida man now charged with falsely impersonating an officer was busted after pulling over a car with two real detectives. NBC 2 in Lee County reports John Arthur Benedict was driving a white Ford Crown Victoria, which was made up like a cop car with strobe lights, a spot light and marking “consistent with…
So how does a dad from Florida with the professional wrestling name of Rob Venomous go about pulling out his son’s loose tooth? He ties that dangling chomper to his Camaro SS, which features a vanity license plate that reads “BALLSS2,” and removes it with good old-fashioned horsepower of course! Venomous–whose real name is…
It’s perhaps the most sickening crime that Florida’s long, stinky history has ever produced: A Boca Raton woman has been arrested and charged with assault and battery after smearing dog poop on her neighbor’s face in the middle of a fight. Amy Goldberg, 57, got into an alteration with an unnamed neighbor over–what else?–dog…
A man who fatally shot his neighbor during an argument and then drove the body to his lawyer’s has not been arrested, causing mixed feelings among others involved. Attorney Robert Harris told WZVN in Fort Myers that his client, John Marshall, admitted to killing his neighbor, but claimed it was in self-defense. Harris explained Marshall…
Melany Joyce Alexander, age 30, of Hernando County FL, is under arrest for child abuse after beating her daughter with a metal-studded belt and forcing her to wear to school a shirt on which the mother had written a long note about the daughter’s failing grades. A deputy from the Hernando County Sheriff’s Department…
A Florida woman was arrested this past week for running naked into the street, then mounting a stranger’s Lexus and proceeding to masturbate in full view of traffic. Orlandoite Amie Carter, 31, is at the center of the Florida woman stops traffic to masturbate story. According to the Orlando Sentinel, Carter jumped onto the Lexus’…
The tale of Robert Michael Phillips’ latest arrest is a bit convoluted, and is perhaps best told in individual steps. Consider, then, the following: 1. Phillips, driving in West Palm Beach FL, cut in front of an unmarked Sheriff’s vehicle and narrowly avoided an accident. 2. Now being tailed by the detective in…
After being struck by a car, appearing dead and getting buried, Bart the cat casually turned up at a neighbor’s house earlier this month — to the great shock of that person and Bart’s owner. “I open the door and my neighbor’s standing there with the cat in her hand,” Bart’s owner, Ellis Huston, told…
How about some amazing news out of Florida to mix things up? Former Miami Dolphins fullback Rob Konrad, 38, is alive after falling off his small fishing boat last Wednesday. Knowing hypothermia or cramping would likely set in within a few hours, Rob used the sun to figure out which way was west and began…
John Balmer, 50, is solely to blame for what happened to him at the K-Mart there in Pasco County FL. He was in possession of both methamphetamine and marijuana at the same time that he was wearing a T-shirt that had the following words written on it: “WHO NEEDS DRUGS.” Underneath that, in tinier…
Lee Vern Cook, a 54-year-old Florida man, has been arrested and charged with a whole boatful of crimes, all of which stem from an incident wherein Cook brought crack to an ICU to share with a patient on Christmas Eve. According to the Crestview Police Department, Lee Vern smuggled some crack and a “homemade”…
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