NAPLES Gov. DeSantis to hold news conference in Naples Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is set to hold a news conference in Naples.
BONITA SPRINGS Bonita Springs residents alarmed after car break-ins A Bonita Springs homeowner is sleeping with one eye open after her social security card was stolen from her car, an incident caught on video.
LEE COUNTY Lee Deputies work to track down transient sex offenders who fail to register WINK News Anchor Corey Lazar goes on patrol with Lee County Deputies in search of transient sex offenders who don’t register.
FORT MYERS Exclusive: Florida Warriors president talks misunderstanding with city On Friday, the president of Florida Warriors Hockey got a letter saying that starting July 1, his program’s rink access at the Fort Myers Skatium would be cut from 48 hours a month to only eight hours a month.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) 3 law officers killed, 5 others wounded trying to serve warrant in North Carolina, authorities say Three law enforcement officers serving a warrant for a felon wanted for possessing a firearm were killed and five other officers were wounded Monday in a shootout at a Charlotte, North Carolina, home, police said.
CAPE CORAL Massive fire leaves Cape Coral businesses in shambles Several fire rescue trucks are responding to a structure fire at a commercial building in Cape Coral.
NORTH FORT MYERS North Fort Myers residents concerned over abandoned boat A day out in the water turned into an alarming discovery for one North Fort Myers family.
FORT MYERS Fort Myers first responders stress safety after rollover crash Fort Myers fire department officials are pointing to safety and awareness following a recent rollover crash on Palm Beach Blvd. and Oasis Way.
NAPLES FSU pitcher Jacob Marlowe’s determined heart is on the mound Former Barron Collier ace, now FSU pitcher Jacob Marlowe is recovering from two open heart surgeries in five days.
Contrasting Lee, Collier and Charlotte homicide rates to nationwide numbers The Wall Street Journal says nationwide homicide rates have dropped by 20% compared to the numbers from 2023.
New program to make life more manageable for Parkinson’s patients A new program, backed by research, was created using the power of spin cycling to redefine the fight against Parkinson’s.
Medicaid class action gets go-ahead A federal judge has cleared the way for a class-action lawsuit that alleges Florida did not properly inform people before dropping them from the Medicaid program after a COVID-19 public health emergency ended.
FORT MYERS New downtown Fort Myers parking options coming soon Two new spots are coming for you to park on nights and weekends in downtown Fort Myers, but you’ll still have to pay.
LEHIGH ACRES Caught on Camera: Family ‘sucker-punched’ in Lehigh Acres brawl A woman is speaking out about a conflict she was involved in at Barefoot Lake.
Miracle Moment: Christina Soriero Doctors diagnosed 22-year-old Christina Soriero with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma when she was just 18. A time in her life when the only thing she should have been dealing with was senioritis and getting ready for life after high school.
NAPLES Gov. DeSantis to hold news conference in Naples Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is set to hold a news conference in Naples.
BONITA SPRINGS Bonita Springs residents alarmed after car break-ins A Bonita Springs homeowner is sleeping with one eye open after her social security card was stolen from her car, an incident caught on video.
LEE COUNTY Lee Deputies work to track down transient sex offenders who fail to register WINK News Anchor Corey Lazar goes on patrol with Lee County Deputies in search of transient sex offenders who don’t register.
FORT MYERS Exclusive: Florida Warriors president talks misunderstanding with city On Friday, the president of Florida Warriors Hockey got a letter saying that starting July 1, his program’s rink access at the Fort Myers Skatium would be cut from 48 hours a month to only eight hours a month.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) 3 law officers killed, 5 others wounded trying to serve warrant in North Carolina, authorities say Three law enforcement officers serving a warrant for a felon wanted for possessing a firearm were killed and five other officers were wounded Monday in a shootout at a Charlotte, North Carolina, home, police said.
CAPE CORAL Massive fire leaves Cape Coral businesses in shambles Several fire rescue trucks are responding to a structure fire at a commercial building in Cape Coral.
NORTH FORT MYERS North Fort Myers residents concerned over abandoned boat A day out in the water turned into an alarming discovery for one North Fort Myers family.
FORT MYERS Fort Myers first responders stress safety after rollover crash Fort Myers fire department officials are pointing to safety and awareness following a recent rollover crash on Palm Beach Blvd. and Oasis Way.
NAPLES FSU pitcher Jacob Marlowe’s determined heart is on the mound Former Barron Collier ace, now FSU pitcher Jacob Marlowe is recovering from two open heart surgeries in five days.
Contrasting Lee, Collier and Charlotte homicide rates to nationwide numbers The Wall Street Journal says nationwide homicide rates have dropped by 20% compared to the numbers from 2023.
New program to make life more manageable for Parkinson’s patients A new program, backed by research, was created using the power of spin cycling to redefine the fight against Parkinson’s.
Medicaid class action gets go-ahead A federal judge has cleared the way for a class-action lawsuit that alleges Florida did not properly inform people before dropping them from the Medicaid program after a COVID-19 public health emergency ended.
FORT MYERS New downtown Fort Myers parking options coming soon Two new spots are coming for you to park on nights and weekends in downtown Fort Myers, but you’ll still have to pay.
LEHIGH ACRES Caught on Camera: Family ‘sucker-punched’ in Lehigh Acres brawl A woman is speaking out about a conflict she was involved in at Barefoot Lake.
Miracle Moment: Christina Soriero Doctors diagnosed 22-year-old Christina Soriero with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma when she was just 18. A time in her life when the only thing she should have been dealing with was senioritis and getting ready for life after high school.
FORT MYERS, Fla.- WINK News first told you in September that Oscar Basora suddenly resigned from the Fort Myers Police Department in the midst of an Internal Affairs Investigation. But, as we started digging into the case, we found a larger trail of questionable behavior on the force. Keep in mind, everything in this report is from the Internal Affairs investigation, recorded by Fort Myers Police, so, it’s the actual voices of officers and witnesses. “So, Briefing 5:45 in the morning, then breakfast at this hotel, then he comes sees me, we have sex and he takes a nap. Then, usually at 8, 8ish, he gets ready to go and then he goes to the police gym,” recalls Oscar Basora’s girlfriend at the time. That was the daily, on the clock routine for ten year veteran Fort Myers Police Officer Oscar Basora, according to his girlfriend. Her name is Noemi and after Basora dumped her, she filed a complaint in May which started an Internal Affairs Investigation. In our month’s long investigation, WINK News obtained the transcripts, along with the actual voice recordings of 34 police officers, plus Basora and his girlfriend. All recorded as part of the FMPD’s Internal Affairs Investigation. WINK News is not identifying any of the officers. Here’s an excerpt from one officer who was in training with Basora: “(Question): What time did you go to breakfast? (Answer): 6:15 (Question): So, right after briefing you guys went straight to breakfast? (Answer): Yes. That was an issued that even sergeants were questioned about during the investigation. (Question): Did you have any knowledge of the whole shift going to breakfast after briefing? (A) I was made aware that that’s usually a location they meet early in the morning.” Basora claimed during the interrogations that the Sergeants knew all along that some officers were going to eat a free, complimentary breakfast saying, “Yeah, these sergeants knew where we were eating.” Another in officer in training with Basora said, “After he gets done with breakfast, (he would) take a ‘to-go’ plate to feed the poor, to a female named Neomi. (Question): And approximately how many times did he go, quote ‘feed the poor’, go to Neomi’s house? (Answer): Almost every day.” When asked about having trainees with him, Neomi said, “He would come see me and we would have sex. I was wondering, how’s he going to do this when he has a trainee with him”. She kept what investigators called in these interviews, thousands of text messages, saying once, “It says he’s on a traffic stop, so that also shows he was working that day. (Question): Okay and again, there’s no question you guys had sex that day? (Anser): There’s no question.” Investigators asked her repeatedly how she knew he was on duty. Noemi read the text messages off her phone, “He says, ‘I’m heading that way soon. May have a dead body in Renaissance Preserve’. So, he’s definitely working. (Question): Did you have sex that day? (Answer): Yes. (Question): Was he working? (Answer): Yes, he was in uniform, he was working.” Throughout the interrogations, Basora insisted that they never had sex while he was on duty but that they did have sex…….a lot of sex. “We’ve had sex, I can’t even tell you how many times, and it wasn’t because it sucked, it was because it was good.”. But his girlfriend, and other officers – say there was more than sex – like taking naps while on the clock. “If he doesn’t come see me to have sex, he takes a nap by some like abandoned parking lot while he was working,” said Noemi. A different training officer recalled this, “After breakfast we would go to the church and he would sleep. (Question): And did he give you any instructions as to what to do if someone called on the radio? (Answer): To listen to the radio and wake him up.” When questioned about this, Basora said that other Fort Myers cops took naps while on duty. “He would go sleep at his mom and dad’s house and I would be answering the radio while in the gym.” And the gym was where, Basora says, even supervisors were working out while on duty. A different officer, not a training officer agreed, “(Question): It was common practice when working out some of the supervisors are in there,” he said. One officer who Basora was supposed to be training says he had to take up the slack, “I took care of the other calls because I don’t think we should go to the gym and workout if there’s calls holding.” Some days, Noemi says, Basora would come over more than once. Like the night of September 18, 2014. “(Question): So, how many times did you guys have sex that day? (Answer): Three times. (Question) And, was he working? (Answer): Yes, definitely working.” You might find that late evening sexual encounter particularly interesting because it ended on the morning of September 19th and because later that day that evening ‐ Oscar Basora got married – to another woman. And she wound up running into Noemi a few months later when she and Basora were coming out of the theater at the Gulf Coast Town Center. “She approached us and she said, ‘so is this your girlfriend?’,” Basora testified to during the investigation. “That’s when my wife responded, ‘I’m his wife, I’m not his girlfriend’. And I just kept escorting my wife to the car and then my wife turned around and looked at her and said, ‘you’re a whore, your’e nothing but a whore, you’re only gonna be a whore’. So, what does Basora say about Noemi now? “I regret my whole relationship with her and I should’ve cut it off sooner.” “This is nothing more than a relationship that ended. One person was unhappy about it and one person was happy. That’s it. Simple as that,” says Fort Myers attorney Joe Viacava, who was not representing Basora at the time but is now. “They could have corroborated things a bit better and they didn’t need to take these initial allegations as true and I think that led them down a road that by the time they realized it, it was kinda too late for everybody. But overall, they got it wrong and he wound up resigning before ever a formal disposition was done and that’s the shame of this.” And what do the rookie officers Basora was supposed to be training think now? One training officer summed it up this way, “I felt like we could’ve done so much more. As far as the city goes, I don’t think it was fair to the city. My work ethic’s a little bit different.” We’ve asked FMPD officials for weeks to comment about this story, but they declined. And there’s more. Tomorrow night, we will tell you the story of a young woman who was in training with Basora but now she has filed an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaint against the FMPD, saying Basora sexually harassed her while on duty.