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Dajuan Lee Myhand, 22, of Micanopy, was arrested yesterday after deputies responding to a crash in Archer determined that he had stolen the crashed vehicle. The post Man on probation charged with stealing car after crash appeared first on Alachua Chronicle .

LEESBURG, Fla. — A man has been arrested nearly four years after a crash in Leesburg that left a 69-year-old North Carolina man dead, following a lengthy traffic homicide investigation, according to police. Terrance Raghoonauth, 33, of Lauderdale, Florida, was taken into custody April 26, 2026, and booked into the The post Arrest Made in 2022 Fatal Crash That Killed North Carolina Man...

LEESBURG, Fla. – A pedestrian died after being struck by a vehicle Tuesday night in Leesburg, according to police. Officers responded around 8:37 p.m. to Citrus Boulevard just north of North Shore Drive. Investigators say a 2014 Chevrolet Camaro, driven by a 66-year-old man, struck a pedestrian in the...

LEESBURG, Fla. — A narcotics search at a location known as “The Carwash” in Leesburg led to the arrest of two individuals and the seizure of multiple drugs and firearms, according to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office. Detectives with the Special Investigations Bureau executed a search warrant at 1645 Veech The post Drug Raid at Leesburg ‘Carwash’ Leads to Arrests, Seizure of Cocaine, Fentanyl and...

A local florist is building out a new flower shop near downtown Ocala. Kaley Utley is the mastermind behind K’s Blooms, a new flower shop that will be situated at 405 E Silver Springs Boulevard in Ocala. The business will join several other shops situated within Buckmaster Square. According...

VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. – A Central Florida high school was forced to act on Wednesday after a former student showed up with a loaded firearm, according to the school district. In a release, district officials said that the incident happened at Mainland High School in Daytona Beach. However, it all stemmed from another encounter around two weeks ago.

A resident of Lake Sumter Apartments was arrested for shoplifting a total of $185.10 in items from a Walmart in The Villages. A loss prevention officer reported 42-year-old Shaquita Shontaye Hicks for stealing from Walmart at Sarasota Plaza in The Villages on March 20, according to an arrest report from the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office.

To the Marion County Planning and Zoning Commissioners and the Marion County Board of County Commissioners:. You need to expand our roads and infrastructure first before you allow anymore development. Ocala was just listed as the number 1 city in the country for the fastest growth, without improving any roads, water and sewer services; not to mention our hospitals and schools.

A Lady Lake woman has been arrested on warrants charging her with selling drugs out of a parking lot at a restaurant in The Villages. On the evening of May 1, 2025, a special investigations squad conducted a street-level narcotics operation at the Denny’s near UF Health Spanish Plaines Hospital in The Villages, according to a warrant affidavit from the Sumter County Sheriff’s...

The Marion County Sheriff’s Office helicopter assisted in the arrest of a Summerfield man accused of holding a pregnant woman at gunpoint. A five-and-a-half-months pregnant woman was walking toward her kitchen when she saw 32-year-old Carlos Montalvo pointing a black handgun at her from behind the bar of her Marion County home at 1:20 p.m. Monday, according...