The Collier County Sheriff's Office is investigating two separate marijuana grow house busts in Golden Gate Estates that investigators said could be related. The two takedowns happened less than a week apart. The most recent happened Wednesday. With guns in hand, SWAT...
Month: May 2013
Convicted sexual offender arrested after online sting
Thomas Harris was arrested during an undercover sting after a New Jersey detective posed as a mother of a 6-year-old child. The conversation is too distributing to repeat, but reports show it was between Harris and a person he thought was a mother; both talking about...
Woman threatens legal action over revenge porn
NAPLES, FL - A Naples woman says a Collier County deputy is threatening to post pornographic pictures he has of her to the web. Now she's fighting back with legal action. Rebekah Wells admits to a relationship with the deputy and says things turned ugly. If the...
Senator: Fire commanders allowing sex assault
From Congress to the White House, pressure is mounting to hold military commanders accountable for the rising number of sexual assaults in the armed services."This needs to end," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and a member of the Armed Services Committee, said Sunday....
3 try to smuggle drugs into Charlotte Jail
CHARLOTTE COUNTY - Deputies said a Port Charlotte man and two inmates at the charlotte county jail were charged Friday with attempting to smuggle drugs into the county jail. Officials say 22-year-old Amanda Renee Combs and 23-year-old Elizabeth Dawn Apple who were...
Nurse arrested for DUI in school parking lot
PUNTA GORDA, FL - The scene played out at a school parking lot early Tuesday morning. Punta Gorda Police say Noreen Freeman was driving to work drunk. "I'm a little shocked because they usually do thorough background checks," says Jason Thomsen, a parent with a child...
Oak Ridge Middle School student, 13, faces drug charges
A 13-year-old student at Oak Hammock Middle School in Tice is face drug charges after deputies said he brought cocaine and marijuana to school Wednesday.The student, who is not being named because of his age, was charged with marijuana possession, cocaine possession...
Accused rapist on the run: Victim’s mother speaks out
A Lee County mother opened up about her painful past. She shared some very dark secrets in hopes her daughter's accused rapist will finally be caught. She explained the man she once loved has been on the run for years - accused of raping two young girls. Inside the...
3 Port Charlotte men arrested during grow house bust
Two Charlotte County deputies who were searching for a wanted person discovered a grow house in Port Charlotte on Thursday. The sheriff's office said the deputies smelled a strong odor of marijuana coming from a home on Hepner Avenue while in the area. The SWAT team...
Dragged motorcyclist remembered as ‘great man’
Pictures of Ed Patrick with his seven- and eight-year-old grandkids are how his daughter Babette Phillips wants the 54-year-old to be remembered. "He was a great man. He lived life everyday. He was happy. He never met a stranger," Phillips said.Last night Florida...