E-BIKER REPORTEDLY HITS TRICYCLE RIDER IN LOWER KEYS, CHARGED WITH DUI

A 53-year-old Key West  man was arrested on April 1 after he allegedly rode an e-bike while intoxicated after getting in a crash.  According to...

ROOSTER SHOOTER ARRESTED FOR ANIMAL CRUELTY

A man who was caught on video shooting roosters with a pellet gun in Bayview Park in the pre-dawn hours of Friday, March 27,...

SERGEANT FACING CHARGES FOR ALLEGEDLY PROVIDING FALSE WORK TIMESHEETS

Monroe County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Eric Mixon, 53, was arrested by the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday on seven counts of official misconduct...

UNLICENSED CONTRACTOR GETS PRISON SENTENCE FOR SCAMMING SENIOR FOLLOWING IRMA

The Monroe County State Attorney’s Office announced Thursday that Tison Lee Kennedy, 39, was sentenced to five years in a Florida prison following the...

KEYS MAN SENTENCED FOLLOWING 2024 TRAFFIC STOP THAT LED TO METHAMPHETAMINE DISCOVERY

The Monroe County State Attorney’s Office announced that Adam Thomas Montgomery was sentenced following a plea of no contest to possession of methamphetamine with...

NAPLES TEEN FACING CHARGES AFTER HE ALLEGEDLY THREATENED JUVENILE’S LIFE

A 13-year-old from Naples was arrested on March 20 after he allegedly sent another juvenile an image of a rifle on TikTok while threatening...

FORMER DEPUTY SENTENCED FOR RECORDING EX-GIRLFRIEND AND BOYFRIEND, MISUSING COMPUTER

The Monroe County State Attorney’s Office announced that Alexander Morales, 27, was sentenced after entering a plea resolving charges stemming from an April 2024...

WASHINGTON WOMAN FACING CHARGES FOLLOWING PURSUIT IN THE LOWER KEYS

A 44-year-old Spokane, Washington woman was arrested on March 14 after she allegedly fled from the Monroe County sheriff’s office on U.S. 1.   Just before...

DEPUTIES ARREST THREE AFTER WOMAN REMOVES UNDERWEAR, MEN BECOME BELLIGERENT AT RESORT

Three unpaying guests at a Key Largo Resort were arrested during the early morning of March 7 after they reportedly caused a scene. Monroe County...

JURY CONVICTS MIAMI MAN IN VIOLENT HUMAN SMUGGLING SCHEME FROM CUBA TO KEY LARGO

A federal jury in Miami convicted 32-year-old Victor Rafael Arcia Albeja, of Miami, on Feb. 20 for his role in a violent human smuggling...