Crime

Survivors of crime and family members of victims gathered Tuesday at the Capitol to join lawmakers and advocates in calling for expanded support for victims and public-safety changes.

A Venice man has been charged with with interstate transmission of a threat to injure and unlawful possession of a silencer and faces up to 15 years in federal prison.An indictment on Alexander Lightner, 26, was handed up on Wednesday.

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer and a Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigator have been arrested in separate cases.The CPB and is facing charges that he stole cash from an international airline passenger during the course of his employment as a CBP officer at Naples Airport.A criminal complaint names William Joseph Timothy, 43, Naples, as the officer. If convicted, Timothy faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison.

Florida Proud Boy sentenced on felony charges for assaulting police officers during Jan. 6. Capitol breach defendant became a fugitive to avoid sentencing, triggering a 6-week manhunt.

An Ohio man is facing a possible life prison sentence after pleading guilty to the Halloween armed robbery of a Fort Myers bank.Grant Elmore Davis, Jr. , 71, of Mansfield, Ohio, entered a guilty plea Wednesday to charges of armed bank robbery, discharging a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, and possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon. A sentencing date has not been set.

Cities on opposite coasts of Florida — including one Southwest Florida community — are at the top and bottom of the most sinful places in the United States.A report from personal-finance website WalletHub listed 2023’s Most Sinful Cities in America. The report compares more than 180 U.S. cities based on seven sinful behaviors: anger and hatred, jealousy, excesses and vices, greed, lust, vanity, and laziness.

Former Cape Coral resident Devin Ryan Maresca will serve a three-year federal prison sentence for mail fraud and aggravated identity theft.Maresca, 33, was sentenced Tuesday by Senior U.S. District Judge Virginia Hernandez Covington. As part of his sentence, the court also entered an order of forfeiture in the amount of $74,700, which were the proceeds of Maresca’s mail fraud scheme.

An arrest warrant issued Monday for Cape Coral councilmember Patty L. Cummings charged her with three third degree felonies: Fraudulent Application for Driver License and two counts of False Swearing in Connection with or Arising Out of Voting or Elections.She surrendered at the Lee County Sheriff's Office Tuesday afternoon.

Authorities are investigating shootings in Texas, Indiana, Florida, Illinois, Georgia and other states. Many of the shootings took place at the sites of large gatherings early Sunday.

A man shot and killed at least 16 people at a restaurant and a bowling alley in Lewiston, Maine, and then fled into the night, sparking a massive search by hundreds of officers while frightened residents in multiple communities stayed locked in their homes Thursday under a shelter-in-place advisory.