Operating a vehicle while intoxicated is a crime in Florida, whether that vehicle operates on land or upon the waves. Officers from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission will be on the lookout for boating under the influence on state waters this...
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Month: June 2016
Florida Man Sentenced Seventeen Years After Guilty Vehicular Homicide Plea
Robert Cesaire struck and killed motorcyclist Charles "Sonny" Ferguson in a head-on collision while drunk and driving the wrong way on an I-95 exit ramp seventeen years ago. On Friday, June 17, Cesaire was finally sentenced to seventeen years in prison for the...
Orlando Man Facing Trial on Charges of Piloting Plane While Drunk
An Orlando man is facing trial for allegedly taxiing his airplane into a shed in Melbourne last year while his son was sitting in the passenger seat.The State Attorney's Office said that a status conference would be held on Monday for Christopher Hall, who is facing...
Inadvertent Calls to 9-1-1 Lead to Felony Drug Charges for Fort Walton Beach Quintet
Inadvertently placing a phone call on a cell phone while it is in your pants pocket is colloquially known as "butt dialing." Butt dialing 9-1-1 is something to be avoided in most cases, as it is embarrassing and could potentially tie up resources needed for actual...
Lake Worth Man Shakes Bottle of Rum at Authorities After String of Car Crashes
Witnesses say a Lake Worth man showed an even more surprising lapse in judgment than usual vehicle accident suspects when he allegedly shook a rum bottle at first responders who arrived at the scene of his final wreck that night.Thirty-five-year-old Edelman...
Hillsborough Sheriff’s Deputy Strikes Semi While Driving Wrong Way on I-75, Faces DUI Charges
A man in a Ford SUV drove the wrong way on the northbound lanes of Interstate 75 early Friday morning, colliding with an eighteen-wheeler in the process. When officers of the Florida Highway Patrol caught up with the driver in a ditch five miles from the collision,...
Two Titusville High School Football Coaches Face Felony Drug Charges
On Wednesday two Titusville High School assistant football coaches were arrested, alleged by the government to be operating an illicit drug ring in Brevard County. Leonard Charles "Chuck" Agee, Jr., 40, and Benjamin S. Jenkins, 36, were arrested and charged with...
Seven Hundred Seventy-Seven Days
Derral had lost all hope. For seven-hundred seventy-seven days he sat in a windowless six foot by nine foot cell all day, every day. His world was confined by three walls of cinder block and one of steel bars. There were six and a half blocks along the long side, four...
