Detectives investigate armed robbery
Sheriff’s detectives are investigating the armed robbery of a restaurant worker that occurred Friday night in Islamorada. Deputy Nicholas Thaler and Sgt. Patricia O’Keefe responded to the Marker 88...
View ArticleMarathon hotel worker arrested for fraud
A Marathon woman was arrested for paying money into a jail inmate’s commissary account using a stolen credit card number. In January of 2017, a couple from Illinois was staying at the Kingsail Motel in...
View ArticleBody found near old gym
On Sunday morning, numerous Key West police officers were on the scene on White Street where a dead body was found. The 67-year-old male was found in a covered area beside the former Island Gym, now an...
View ArticleKey Largo man faces more drug, gun charges
A Key Largo man wanted on a warrant was arrested Friday night, and was found in possession of illegal narcotics and a stolen revolver during the arrest. Deputy Cody Kerns and Sgt. Scott Ward went to a...
View ArticleTwo women face drug charges
Two women caught using drugs in a truck on Big Pine Key are in jail on drug charges. A woman called the Sheriff’s Office on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. because she was in the vicinity of Watson Field on Big...
View ArticleAlabama man arrested for attempting to rob his boss
An Alabama man in the Keys to do roofing work was arrested in Marathon on Friday after he attempted to rob his boss at knifepoint. When Sgt. Joel Slough arrived on 121st Street in Marathon at 3 p.m.,...
View ArticleMainland man arrested for stone crab trap robbing
A Miami man who robbed stone crab traps and harvested undersized claws near the Bahia Honda Bridge has been arrested on warrants in Miami. Lazaro Jesus Alonso Rodriguez, 35, was cited for possession of...
View ArticleBroward County men charged with undersized fish
Deputies on routine patrol for resource violations caught two Broward County men early today with eight undersized mangrove snapper. Deputies Michael Maleta and Matthew Cory were on the Channel 5...
View ArticleHit-and-run probe leads to Ecstasy arrest
A 32-year-old Cudjoe Key woman with MDMA, a drug commonly referred to as “Ecstasy” or “Molly,” was arrested recently at the Sugarloaf Lodge as part of an hit-and-run investigation that began earlier in...
View ArticleSting: 4 businesses served alcohol to minors
On Jan. 30, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office Special Investigations Division conducted an operation checking businesses that sell alcohol in the Lower Keys. Sixteen businesses were checked including...
View ArticleMan arrested in machete attack
A 33-year-old man who attacked another man with a machete was later arrested in Marathon. Joshua Lee Meadows of Marathon was charged with two counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. Middle...
View ArticleHome burglary, boat theft under MCSO investigation
Monroe County Sheriff’s Office detectives are investigating a boat theft and a home burglary after a house was broken into and a $40,000 Scarab jet boat and trailer were reported stolen in Key Largo on...
View ArticleWoman arrested for disturbing the peace
A 48-year-old woman was arrested Monday after she screamed at resort staff and threw plants off a hotel balcony. Wendy Sue Crocker of Islamorada was charged with resisting arrest without violence and...
View ArticleBig Pine man charged with business burglary
A Big Pine man is in jail charged with burglarizing the Ace Hardware store on Big Pine Key. The burglary was reported the morning of Jan. 23 after the owner arrived at work and found damage to a door...
View ArticleFamiliar card scam reported again
The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office is again warning residents to be leery of anyone notifying citizens that they won or are due money that can only be received via the purchase of gift cards or prepaid...
View ArticleUpper Keys burglar captured after tip
A 19-year-old man wanted for burglarizing a Key Largo business in December was arrested after the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office received an anonymous Crime Stoppers tip. Timberelen Terrell of Key...
View ArticleTraffic stop leads to drug, ammunition bust
A 28-year-old Key Largo man faces numerous charges after ecstasy, marijuana, more than 30 marijuana oil cartridges and handgun ammunition were found in a sport utility vehicle he was driving early...
View ArticleFamiliar card scam reported again in the Florida Keys
The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office is again warning residents to be leery of anyone notifying citizens that they won or are due money that can only be received via the purchase of gift cards or prepaid...
View ArticleTwo men arrested for boat burglary
Two mainland men were arrested over the weekend for burglarizing and damaging a boat on Big Pine Key. Ismael Perez Castineira, 28, of Miami, and Alain Oliva Perez, 19, of Hialeah, were both charged...
View ArticleDrug bust made during traffic stop
A Key Largo man and woman with an array of drugs were arrested after they were stopped for traveling in a sport utility vehicle with illegally tinted windows. Nicole Paddock, 23, was charged with...
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