Author: Gary from Goodland

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Authorities are investigating a possible gator attack that left a man dead at a park in Largo. The Largo Police Department responded to the incident, which occurred Tuesday morning on Taylor Lake at John S. Taylor Park, 1100 8th Ave S.W. Police said the man’s death was being investigated as a…

DELAND, Fla. — A DeLand-area man was killed early Monday. Officials say 51-year-old Florida man died in an apparent accidental explosion at a bonfire during an outdoor party. The sheriff’s office and the state fire marshal are investigating. “There’s been an accident. He’s dead. There’s somebody dead,” a 911 caller said. A graduation party at…

HAINES CITY, Fla. – A tractor-trailer delivery driver is facing possession of methamphetamine charges after crashing into the back of a Publix shopping center in Haines City on Thursday afternoon.  The Florida Man, 51, of Cape Coral, was making a delivery in the back of the shopping center when his truck tore an awning off…

Englewood, FL – A man was arrested after attacking an unsuspecting motorist parked in a handicap spot at a South Florida McDonald’s. On May 18th, 36-year-old Florida man attacked a man sitting in a parked car at the McDonald’s on S. McCall Road in Englewood around 1:40 p.m. According to the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office, a woman told…

A naked man spotted lurking in the parking lot of the McDonalds restaurant in Leesburg was arrested after taking a bite out of police officers who tried to remove him from the premises. The restaurant’s manager called the Leesburg Police Department after spotting the man in the wee hours Thursday morning, according to an arrest…

A Florida man, who is a convicted felon, is in jail, and his drugs are off the streets after a routine traffic stop for blowing a stop sign. The Florida man, 39, of Naples, was arrested Wednesday with enough fentanyl to kill nearly 10,000 people. At approximately 7:48 p.m., FM was driving when CCSO deputies…

A veteran received disability after claiming he couldn’t so much as lift 10 pounds. Then he got busted after posting pictures of himself weightlifting online. According to the United States Department of Justice’s website, 36-year-old Florida man of Port St. Lucie, Fla., received over $245,000 in disability payments from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs…

A Florida man from the Pinellas beaches fabricated a fake pardon from former President Donald Trump as authorities investigated him in connection with a number of fraud cases, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Tampa reported this week. The Florida man (FM), 22, of North Redington Beach, is facing charges of wire fraud, bank fraud and…

A Florida man and woman who entered an Englewood, Florida, laundromat and smashed a coin machine with sledgehammer on May 8, are now in custody, according to deputies. Investigators say approximately 10:45 pm on Sunday, May 8; the pair entered a laundromat in Englewood; the male was wearing an ape mask and wielding a sledgehammer,…

Florida Man May 16.

 Four men are accused of dressing up like cops while robbing and shooting people who they believed were drug dealers, including in Hillsborough and Pasco counties, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida. The men were indicted by a federal grand jury in April Source Gagster Dancing Pickle – Sings,…

“I have no idea how to fly the airplane.” The pilot on his single-engine Cessna 208 had “gone incoherent,” the passenger was telling air traffic controllers Tuesday afternoon, according to audio from LiveATC.net. It was, he stressed, a “serious situation.” Air Traffic Controller Robert Morgan, a certified flight instructor, was on a break when the…

HAINES CITY (CBSMiami)- Police officers have to worry about people driving under the influence or boating under the influence, but now, they’ll have to look out for those lawn mowing under the influence. On May 5, one Florida man was charged with a DUI, or in this case an ‘LUI’,  after he allegedly drove his…

SARASOTA COUNTY, FL. – The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Florida man Thursday for an attempted boat theft after the Aviation and K-9 Units helped track him down in the Intercoastal Waterway. Just after 1:00 a.m. on May 5, deputies responded to a report of an unknown man attempting to steal a boat docked…

ZEPHYRHILLS, Fla. — Florida Highway Patrol troopers say an armadillo caused a deadly crash Thursday night in Pasco County. It happened around 10:20 p.m. at Eiland Boulevard near Handcart Road in Zephyrhills. Troopers say a 45-year-old Florida man was riding his motorcycle northbound on Eiland Boulevard when an armadillo crossed into his path. The driver hit the…

A Florida man wanted on drug charges didn’t quite prove himself as a “Master of Deception” when he was arrested last week in a “hideous” blonde wig while trying to pedal his way past police capture, authorities said. Florida Man (FM) was busted on his bicycle as he tried to ride through a perimeter police had set…

A 28-year-old Florida Man was arrested yesterday for allegedly battering his ex-boyfriend during a predawn confrontation about penises, according to a criminal complaint. Cops report that Florida Man–who shares a St. Petersburg residence with the 37-year-old victim–woke up his ex at 5:15 AM and confronted the victim for “not having any compassion for [FM’s] desire…

BUNNELL, Fla. (CBSMiami/CNN) – A Florida man is under arrest after proudly showing off his marijuana plant to police and even inviting them to ‘smoke a bowl’ with him. It happened in the town of Bunnell, on the east coast of Florida between St. Augustine and Daytona Beach. Deputies say Florida man was wearing a…

A Florida Man Ford GT owner in Boca Raton, Florida crashed his recently purchased supercar into a tree Friday evening because he was “unfamiliar with how to drive stick shift,” police say. The driver, a 50-year-old Florida Man (FM), told cops he lost control after downshifting while leaving his housing development at around 6 p.m, a police…

MIAMI, FL – An employee of a South Florida supermarket has been arrested after he allegedly placed his cell phone near a toilet to record a woman he escorted to the store’s private bathroom.  Police were called to the Presidente Supermarket in Miami on Thursday after a female victim told police that she asked an…