KEY WEST STABBING SUSPECT CAUGHT
Eight months ago, Kentrell Freeman was arrested for bringing a baseball bat to his ex-girlfriend’s office and threatening to kill her, despite a domestic...
KEY WEST DRUG TRAFFICKER GETS 7 YEARS IN STATE PRISON
State Attorney Dennis Ward announced on May 13 that Rollins E. Warden, 56, of Key West, was sentenced to seven years in Florida State...
SHOOTER PRESTON BREWER STILL IN JAIL DESPITE BOND OFFER
Judge Mark Jones on March 7 granted a $3 million bond to Preston Brewer, who police say shot and killed Garrett Hughes in a...
JURY CONVICTS WOMAN OF SECOND-DEGREE MURDER FOR 2023 BIG COPPITT SHOOTING
A Key West jury deliberated for less than an hour before finding a 35-year-old Big Coppitt woman guilty of second-degree murder for the June...
MULTIPLE, NEAR-FATAL FENTANYL OVERDOSES ON KEY WEST PROMPT FELONY ARREST
A string of near-fatal fentanyl overdoses in Key West last month prompted an intense investigation by Key West police detectives, who traced the source...
MAN ARRESTED FOR ILLEGALLY PLACING GPS TRACKERS ON WOMEN’S CARS
On Nov. 8, 2024, two individual victims responded to the Key West Police Department upon receiving a cell phone notification alerting them that an...
GUN FIRED IN DOWNTOWN FIGHT; LOCAL MAN FACES FELONY CHARGES
A fight in a parking lot behind Duval Street businesses escalated around 1 a.m. on Dec. 3, when one man says he pulled a...
CITY-OWNED VEHICLE STOLEN WHILE LEFT RUNNING ON SOUTH STREET
A routine inspection for two city of Key West employees escalated into a grand theft auto case, when their city vehicle was stolen from...
TOURIST ARRESTED FOR STEALING CASH FROM TIP JAR IN KEY WEST, POLICE SAID
A New Jersey woman was arrested Sunday after police said she reached into a tip jar on the counter of a Key West store...
TREEHOUSE MURDER’ SUSPECT JAILED IN OREGON
A Monroe County judge issued an arrest warrant for the suspect in the 2017 murder of 59-year-old Matthew Bonnett on Stock Island, a case...
