A trial is underway in Osceola County for Anas Muhammad, charged as an adult with first-degree murder in the 2022 stabbing death of 16-year-old Paola Pagan, who was attacked outside her Kissimmee apartment as she left for school.

Titusville's mayor praised the “swift and professional” response by the Titusville Police Department and regional law enforcement partners during a critical incident Monday night at Sand Point Park.

Marion County deputies trying to stop an Amber Alert suspect used a PIT maneuver to disable his vehicle Monday evening — and shots were fired as they moved in to arrest him, according to the sheriff's office.

Officers are investigating a “domestic violence incident” that broke out in Holly Hill on Monday, according to the police department. Police said the incident may have stemmed from an argument over infidelity.

A 67-year-old man was arrested in Sumter County after deputies say a late-night encounter that began with an online connection escalated into a vehicle chase, a crash and a reported threat at gunpoint.

Titusville police are asking for help locating two people they say shot at a home that had people inside early Saturday on Thomas Street.

The family of a 20-year-old man fatally shot by Osceola County sheriff’s deputies outside a Target in 2022 has reached a $1 million settlement in a federal civil rights lawsuit, with the family’s attorney saying he hopes the agreement will promote accountability within the sheriff’s office.

A “juvenile male” was struck by gunfire in Kissimmee on Thursday evening, according to the police department.

An Ormond Beach man has been put behind bars after two children were put through “heinous punishment” and “cruel mistreatment,” according to the Volusia Sheriff’s Office.

An investigation is underway after a dog was allegedly struck by a Brevard County patrol car, which then left the scene, according to Sheriff Wayne Ivey.

A Central Florida man was arrested after being accused of violating recent emergency rules regarding a flesh-eating parasite, according to Florida Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson.

A Sumter County Sheriff’s Office detective has been arrested and terminated after investigators say she improperly accessed multiple law enforcement databases for information involving her husband's ex-wife.

The Orlando Police Department issued a warning after video was released showing a mob of e-bike riders downtown.

A Central Florida man was arrested after he was caught stealing diesel from Circle K gas stations across the area, according to the Volusia Sheriff’s Office.

An unsettling shopping experience for a woman at a Walmart in Orange County this week led to an arrest for video voyeurism.

About 49 people were arrested as part of a multi-agency operation going after drug traffickers in Central Florida. The networks operated in Volusia, Flagler, St. Johns, Marion and Orange counties, according to law enforcement.

A Lamborghini was pulled over in a “Super Speeder stop” on Wednesday morning for going over 100 mph on the highway, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.

New video footage from Lake County Sheriff’s Office shows a dangerous situation involving the vice president of an HOA in Lake County last month.

A judge signed the order on Thursday, citing Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.134(b)(2). The state had not filed charges by the 63rd day following the defendant’s arrest, nor did prosecutors file anything to demonstrate good cause for an extension.

A Palm Coast man has been arrested after he was caught driving the wrong way while intoxicated, according to the Flagler County Sheriff’s office.

In a statement on Tuesday afternoon, Sheriff Judd said that detectives were looking into the "suspicious" death of a female victim.

The Volusia County Council is set to vote on whether to create a domestic violence offender registry — a move that could make the county the first in Florida to establish such a database.

Police have released footage of the arrest at a nearby restaurant after investigators said the suspect fled the scene.

Bunnell police arrested a 21-year-old Palm Coast woman on Sunday after officers discovered two dead dogs inside a storage unit where investigators allege the animals were kept in “dangerous conditions.”

The vice president of an HOA in Leesburg was taken into custody last week after he was accused of ramming into a van with his F-150 truck, according to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office.

The mother of a two-year-old who was killed when another child found a gun and fired it in Osceola County earlier this month now could be charged with culpable negligence.

A new trial begins Monday in Brevard County for Erica Dotson. Dotson is facing capital murder charges in the death of her 3-year-old son, Jameson.

Crystal Lawson, 32, of Orlando faces 113 felony counts of computer crimes and one count of unlawful use of a two-way communication device. She posted a $1.14 million bond over the weekend after it was set at $10,000 per count.

The Orange County Sheriff’s Office put up crime scene tape to close TCU Boulevard near Pamlico Street on Saturday.

Upon a review of the surveillance footage, investigators said they recognized one of the “female” suspects due to his extensive history of previous arrests.

Deputies said they found feces coating floors, walls, and the ceiling in the kitchen and living room.

A suspected reckless driver in Osceola County reached speeds of 135 mph before sheriff’s deputies were finally able to stop him earlier this month.

A Windermere man was arrested after Orange County deputies say he hit an 11-year-old child on an e-bike with an SUV, then smashed the child’s cellphone during a confrontation in the neighborhood.

A newly released report from the Town of Howey-in-the-Hills sheds light on why the town’s police chief resigned last month. According to an investigation conducted by the Lake County Sheriff’s Office, former police chief Michael Giddens was being investigated for having sex while on duty with a woman who was the estranged wife of the suspect in a criminal investigation.

Police arrested a McDonald’s restaurant employee for allegedly pulling a knife on a customer and telling him, “You can die today,” during a dispute over missing French fries.

A Central Florida man has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after murdering and trying to rape his girlfriend’s 93-year-old mother, according to the State Attorney’s Office.

Per investigators, Shepard had a “jerry-rigged Whizzinator,” a fake bladder of fake urine wired to a heating pad with a faux penis to make it look convincing.

Body camera video released by police shows what happened when two Central Florida charter school principals were arrested on DUI charges.

On Wednesday, investigators revealed that 19 Florida residents have now pleaded guilty in a wide-ranging bank fraud conspiracy.

In a news conference Wednesday, Worrell highlighted significant gains in conviction rates and continued progress on juvenile justice reform.

Gov. DeSantis signed a letter Monday designating July 28 as the date of execution at Florida State Prison for former Mascotte police officer James Duckett.

Three days after a 60-year-old man was shot in Sanford’s Goldsboro neighborhood, investigators say they are still working to determine exactly what happened — and who is the victim or the suspect.

An Orlando man was arrested after officers said he picked up an 8-year-old girl near a hotel pool and ran when her family confronted him.

Seven people were arrested as part of an undercover operation in Volusia County this month, according to the sheriff’s office.

A man was arrested following a disturbance call that led Port Orange police to discover a concealed laboratory containing hazardous chemicals inside his home.

An operation in Osceola County to catch sex offenders and predators who hadn’t registered with the state led to 126 arrests, the sheriff’s office said Monday.

Florida is in the process of executing three of its oldest death row inmates back to back — each one older than the last.

Jeremy Mason, 29, was arrested on Friday after troopers responded to a “Be On the Lookout” alert for a white Chevrolet Silverado traveling westbound on State Road 400. Dispatchers reported a woman inside the vehicle was yelling that she had been kidnapped.

Police in Sanford say one person is hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after a shooting Saturday. Police say it happened near W. 14th Street and Bell Avenue.

The principal of a charter school in Lake County has been arrested on charges related to DUI, along with another woman who claimed to be a principal at the school.

Three people have been arrested after a shooting at an apartment complex in Orlando on Thursday, which led to a pursuit that ended in Seminole County.

The U.S. Department of Justice is planning to seek the death penalty against one of the suspects in a drug ring and carjacking that led to a woman’s death in 2024. Prosecutors say Jordanish Torres-Garcia was the one who held Katherine Aguasvivas at gunpoint in the shocking carjacking that took place in Winter Springs.

Eddy Noelsaint, 54, was found guilty this week of four counts of sexual battery against a member of his church.

A Palm Bay man will spend 38 years in prison for the beating death of his 12-year-old son in 2021. Jason Godleski, 38, was sentenced this week in Brevard County after pleading no contest to charges of second-degree murder, aggravated child abuse, and neglect of a child with great bodily harm.

The execution of former Mascotte police officer James Duckett can go forward after the Florida Supreme Court lifted its stay.

A suspect fled a traffic stop in Sanford Tuesday, ending with a crash that killed two innocent bystanders on U.S. 17-92 in Casselberry. From the beginning, the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office said it did not actively pursue the suspect, 26-year-old Marquavious Wheaton, as he allegedly sped through Seminole County at speeds exceeding 100 mph. However, witnesses told News 6 that law enforcement swarmed the crash scene quickly, leaving some to wonder how. Now we know.

Florida prosecutors will seek the death penalty for the man accused of killing a Lake County woman last year and leaving her body along a Mount Dora road. A grand jury indicted Shahidul Islam for first-degree murder in the shooting death of his sister-in-law, Monica Islam.

The Osceola County Sheriff’s Office says a man was hospitalized after a deputy-involved shooting early Wednesday morning.

Former Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum has been arrested on drug possession charges in Alabama after police say they pulled him over for erratic driving and found marijuana and meth in his vehicle.

The Osceola County Sheriff’s Office needs help to find three people accused of stealing electronics from a school and vandalizing one of the conference rooms. The incident happened on June 26 at 1:46 a.m. at Cross Prairie K-8 School on Rankin Street in Kissimmee.

A convicted sex offender in DeLand is facing several charges, accused of forcefully groping two nurses at a hospital.

A man accused of shooting a 70-year-old woman three times at an Orlando bus stop will remain behind bars after a judge denied him bond.

A promised crackdown on illegal house parties over the July 4 weekend led to six people being arrested and two parties being shut down.

According to police, Justice S. Fletcher placed a firearm inside a trash can on Thursday, retrieved it, and accidentally discharged it, striking a building. No injuries were reported.

The father of a 13-year-old girl is suing the Orange County apartment complex where authorities say his daughter was raped and killed July 4, 2024.

Prosecutors are asking a judge to keep Kevin Millares locked up without bond until trial. Millares was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service in New York after fleeing the Orlando area following the June 8 shooting.

Deputies said he took over 20 dogs from his mother's home in Palm Coast before heading to St. Johns County, where they were purposefully released and abandoned on the side of the road.

New bodycam footage has been released after deputies fatally shot a knife-wielding woman last month, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.

A woman on her way back from visiting her sick father in the hospital was killed when a suspected drunk driver rear-ended her car at a red light and fled the scene in Lake Mary late Tuesday night. Now, her heartbroken fiancé is speaking out — not just about his loss, but about the decision he says cost Danielle Akers her life.

An assistant principal in Seminole County is now facing a DUI charge after he was caught riding an e-bike late at night, according to the sheriff’s office.

Police said Peoples fled earlier from VSO deputies who were attempting to arrest him, raising concerns he would continue to endanger the public. After the arrest, officers said they discovered his 11-year-old daughter was in the vehicle.

Data shared with News 6 from the Florida Highway Patrol shows troopers made 967 arrests for dangerous excessive speeding statewide from July 1, 2025, through June 15, 2026. The total number of “super speeders” stopped in Florida in the last year is likely much higher when you factor in arrests made by county sheriffs, municipal police, and other agencies.

Deputies said they received a tip last week about the video, which was reportedly posted to Snapchat.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has issued another scathing letter to Orange-Osceola State Attorney Monique Worrell, this time accusing her office of “leniency toward murderers and pedophiles.” Worrell accused Uthmeier of being 'more interested in scoring political points' in a response to News 6.

The Volusia County Sheriff is responding to a Holly Hill church pastor who told News 6 her son was not involved in a major drug and gang operation, saying investigators surveilled the house next to the church for almost a year and saw people selling marijuana.

Police said the incident happened on Tuesday evening along State Road 414, where the girl was seen waving her arms to get help outside an SUV on the side of the highway.

A 34-year-old man charged earlier this year with defrauding investors out of at least $250 million pleaded guilty Tuesday to running a “Ponzi scheme.” Christopher Delgado could face up to 50 years in prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud and money laundering Tuesday.

A Palm Coast couple wired $40,000 to a contractor for home renovations that were supposed to be finished in three months. Detectives say the work barely started — and the money went elsewhere, including signed baseball card purchases.

Volusia County law enforcement raided 10 properties, targeting a violent drug gang known as the "Cut Throat Murderers" linked to fatal overdoses and shootings on the county's east side.

Lady Lake officials say 20-year-old Bryson “Swift” Leverette was one of two people shot at a home in the Skyline Hills area of town on June 30, 2023.

The Polk County Sheriff’s Office announced that on Friday, deputies arrested 12 adults and 3 juveniles accused of stealing food and drinks from the Wawa in Davenport.

Two Deltona parents accused of threatening a teenager with a knife and a gun returned to court for a bond hearing.

A Palm Bay woman was arrested over the weekend after she was caught with cocaine in her “lower region” after a traffic stop, according to the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office.

Zebron Trenton Biggs, of Orlando, was arrested May 27 after the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office linked him to two separate shootings at a home in Altamonte Springs. Investigators say Biggs tried to kill the victim because "he didn't want to have a baby with a 14-year-old."

Orlando police say a fight overnight near Church Street and Orange Avenue ended with an accidental gunshot, sending a woman to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Sanford police are continuing to investigate after a woman in her late 60s was found dead inside her home Friday evening.

A former nurse at University Behavioral Health Center in Orlando will spend the next 10- years in prison, adjudicated guilty of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old patient last June.

On Friday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed off on eight more bills, bringing the total number of new laws this year to well over 200.

The woman accused of luring Lake County deputies to her home in a deadly ambush in 2024 sat quietly in a courtroom for six hours Friday, as three psychologists testified about her ability to stand trial. Julie Sulpizio is the only living suspect in the ambush that left Master Deputy Bradley Link dead. Two other deputies survived their injuries.

Police in Kissimmee now say the body that was discovered in a neighborhood on Thursday morning is part of a homicide case. The victim has now been identified as Charles Harper, 71. Police are looking for help finding whoever took Harper's truck, which was recovered later in Altamonte Springs.

Downtown Ormond Beach businesses are taking matters into their own hands after drivers continue to ignore a reduced speed limit on Granada Boulevard — nearly a year after the change took effect.

An Osceola County deputy was arrested Thursday morning, accused of domestic violence. Deputies say the victim reported Elias Ramirez III, 34, from an Orange County RaceTrac after they said Ramirez began shoving and kicking her.

Over a decade after a woman was killed during an armed robbery, Orange County deputies announced they’ve finally pinned a suspect.

An afternoon in a quiet Oviedo neighborhood turned chaotic this weekend after an attempted armed robbery led to a car crash, a gunshot and an alleged effort to cover up the crime. News 6 is learning that four people are now facing charges, including a man previously arrested while wanted for attempted murder in New Jersey.

A Kissimmee man was caught earlier this month after he fled from law enforcement in an RV, according to the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office.

An Apopka man accused of running a massive cryptocurrency investment fraud through Goliath Ventures has agreed to plead guilty, according to court records obtained by News 6 on Tuesday.

A St. Cloud foster parent accused of multiple child sex abuse felonies was reportedly caring for six foster children at the time of his arrest, raising questions about oversight within Florida’s foster care system.

A heavy law enforcement presence popped up along Lee Road in Orange County on Tuesday evening after a man reportedly threatened his brother with a knife, according to the sheriff’s office.

A former Florida Highway Patrol captain has pleaded “not guilty” in a major off-duty pay scheme, according to court records obtained by News 6.

An undocumented immigrant from Mexico has been arrested after getting into a “physical altercation” with an ICE agent in Orange County last week, according to the FLHSMV.