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FMPD confirms two shootings at three crime scenes FORT MYERS, Fla.- Police confirm two shootings late Saturday afternoon are related. The first shooting happened in the Dunbar neighborhood followed by another shooting at a hardware store across the street from Lee Memorial Hospital. Police say a male in his teens or 20s was shot around 5:30 p.m. on Saturday. Authorities say a third location was also part of […]
Woman arrested for moving in to snowbird’s home in Naples NAPLES, Fla. – An unwanted house guest was caught making herself at home in a Naples community. Someone checking up on a snowbird’s house came back to find a car missing and the doors wide open. Some neighbors tell WINK News they saw her walking around the neighborhood just days before she got caught. Not […]
Four charged for making fake oil spill claims in Pensacola PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) – Four Pensacola residents including a former IRS employee are going to prison for filing false oil spill claims. U.S. Attorney Pamela Marsh announced Friday that four people had been sentenced on mail fraud charges. The four pleaded guilty to participating in a scheme where they alleged they lost money due to […]
Deputies search for Burnt Store Marina boat thief LEE COUNTY, Fla. – Crime Stoppers is looking for a man who reportedly took a boat from Burnt Store Marina on July 6. Deputies said a man left his pontoon boat in the slip around 10 p.m. Monday. When he returned the next morning, the man said his boat was gone. The boat owner said he […]
Cape man dies after falling out of a pickup truck CAPE CORAL, Fla. – A man, who fell out the back of a moving pickup truck in early July, has died from his injuries. Police said 23-year-old Timothy Holland was riding in the back of the truck on July 9, when he fell out as the truck left the parking lot of Stevie Tomato’s Sports Page on […]
Gov. Scott orders to arm, protect Fla. National Guard members TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Governor Rick Scott released an executive order Saturday that would help protect Florida Guardsmen in the wake of the Tennessee shooting, where five military members were murdered. Scott instructed the Florida Adjunct General to take immediate action in protecting Guardsmen. The order instructed the state to relocate all Florida National Guard personnel […]
US Navy says sailor injured in Tennessee shooting has died CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) – The U.S. Navy says that the sailor who was shot earlier this week at a military support center in Chattanooga, Tennessee, has died. The death was announced Saturday, two days after a shooting in Chattanooga killed four Marines and injured three others, including the sailor. The Navy statement did not give […]