Sharpes News

One of two teens convicted in the 2006 beating of two homeless men on Merritt Island could be sent back to jail on charges he violated probation less than a month after his release from prison.

Tiana Crisman, a key prosecution witness who did not show up to testify during an April felony manslaughter trial, is now behind bars at the Brevard County Detention Center.

Titusville police are sorting through evidence in case involving seven dogs - including two puppies - removed from a home where a suspected dog fight was about to take place.

Two men who police said held up a man in a darkened driveway as he readied for work, remained jailed without bond this morning.

A 19-year-old man will remain behind bars after a circuit court judge ruled against reducing a $750,000 bond in a drive-by shooting case, officials said.

Agents with the Brevard County Sheriff's Office Fugitive Unit traveled to the Marion County Jail today to take custody of Titusville murder suspect Jeremiah Williams.

Slaying suspect Jeremiah Williams remains under observation at Munroe Regional Medical Center in Ocala, according to authorities.

There's solid progress to report at the perennially overcrowded 1,701-bed Brevard County jail.

A man who brandished a handgun at another driver in a fit of road rage was arrested today on a charge of aggravated assault with a firearm, police said.

A 35-year-old man faces charges that he targeted his own brother-in-law's home to steal a GPS system and a can of gasoline, police report.

The Florida Department of Corrections says the move is typical when there's an investigation.

State officials are not allowing visitors into the Brevard Correctional Institution this weekend and have placed all 1,000 prisoners on lockdown.

Former murder suspect Wade Dante Jackson will be freed from the Brevard County Jail Complex this afternoon, his lawyer said this morning.

A man and woman face charges of carrying out a distraction theft at an electronic store and nearly getting away with $600 in equipment cut from the shelves.

Detectives say a 70-year-old man suspected of repeatedly having sexually explicit conversations with a 15-year-old girl he met in Wal-Mart, may have approached other young girls.

SHARPES -- In the past five years, officials have investigated at least 12 allegations of sex or improper relationships between male inmates and female officers or staff members at the Brevard Correctional Institution, according to state records.

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Two teens suspected of shooting to death a 23-year-old man during a bold, daytime home invasion remain jailed today, charged with first-degree murder and robbery with a firearm.

A 47-year-old man who police said punched a developmentally challenged boy in the head and kept him in the closet overnight, remains in jail today without bond.

Two men arrested last week on charges of running a marijuana grow house that produced up to 25 pounds of the illegal weed, will face a judge next month.