Crime

Cape Coral Police Department said it has received several cases over the last week in reference to scams involving unwitting Uber/Lyft drivers.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is questioning the actions of State Attorney Monique Worrell over how she handled cases involving a suspect charged with fatally shooting a TV reporter, a 9-year-old girl and a woman in Orlando.

Dillbeck was put to death by lethal injection Thursday evening for the murder of a woman in a Tallahassee mall parking lot. He also killed a Lee County deputy as a teenager.

A Naples man will head to prison for more than seven years on charges of wire fraud, bank fraud, illegal monetary transactions, and possession of ammunition by a convicted felon and repay $2.6 million in a scheme related to COVID-19 relief funds.

The January 2019 killing took place as the Fort Myers Beach library director opened the building to prepare for a book sale.

The Lee County Sheriff's Office has added another layer of crime-solving to its arsenal with the public unveiling of a new DNA machine.

School threats were top law enforcement news Wednesday as the Lee County Sheriff's Office announced the expansion of its school threat enforcement team and Cape Coral police said they arrested a 13-year-old private school student for making a threat.

According to three recently unsealed indictments returned by a South Florida federal grand jury and two informations filed by federal prosecutors, defendants engaged in a scheme to sell fraudulent nursing degree diplomas and transcripts obtained from accredited Florida-based nursing schools to individuals seeking licenses and jobs as registered nurses (RNs) and licensed practical/vocational nurses (LPN/VNs).

The performer belting out some of the most popular songs of the time at the High Hat Club, a venue on what was then Anderson Avenue and now Martin Luther King Boulevard in Dunbar, looked like the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, dressed like Franklin and sounded like Franklin, but she wasn’t Franklin.

A three-month USA TODAY Network-Florida investigation into the death of Katie Baunach at a home in Hendry County found a series of failures to protect her by every layer of state and local law enforcement. Click the link at the end of this article to read Dan Glaun's recounting at News-Press.com.