Traffic advisory for the Spanish Harbor Bridge
A construction contractor for the Florida Department of Transportation will be performing repairs on the Spanish Harbor Bridge at Mile Marker 35.5 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today, Dec. 13, and tomorrow,...
View ArticleNo injuries after reported bomb threat in Key Largo
Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to the Coldwell Banker Commercial Schmitt Real Estate Company, 100430 Overseas Highway, in Key Largo, about 1:30 p.m. Thursday after a bomb threat was reported.There...
View ArticleTraffic advisory for the Niles Channel Bridge
A construction contractor for the Florida Department of Transportation will be performing repairs/inspecting the Niles Channel Bridge at Mile Marker 25.5 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today, Monday, Dec. 17,...
View ArticleSheriff’s Office announces next Citizen’s Police Academies
The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office will be holding its next Citizen’s Police Academies starting in February and we are looking for people who are interested in learning more about law enforcement and...
View ArticleMan arrested for stealing dive gear
A 40-year-old Fort Lauderdale man was booked into jail Tuesday a warrant regarding the theft of approximately $1,300 in scuba gear from a Key Largo dive shop last year.Jose Fernando Ricciarelli Aguilar...
View ArticleMan crashes truck while fleeing after theft
A 61-year-old Miami man was arrested Tuesday after he stole a pressure washer from the Home Depot in Marathon and then crashed a pickup truck after he was spotted by the Sheriff’s Office. Gilberto...
View ArticleMan arrested for stealing car in Miami
A 33-year-old Homestead man was arrested Friday for possessing suspected drugs after he was stopped in the Upper Keys for driving a rental car reported stolen out of Miami-Dade County.David Mirville...
View ArticleMan arrested for battery
A 29-year-old Marathon man was arrested Thursday on a warrant regarding the battery of a woman in October.Tommy Orlando Alo was charged with battery. Middle Keys Deputy Victor Morales was called to...
View ArticleBody pulled from the water in Marathon
The body of a 63-year-old liveaboard was found floating in a canal at 890 15th Street, oceanside, in Marathon Monday morning.Steven Paul Churchill, formerly of Detroit, Michigan, was found by boaters...
View ArticleTraffic advisory for Long Key Bridge
A construction contractor for the Florida Department of Transportation will be performing repairs on the Long Key Bridge at Mile Marker 63 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. from Jan. 2 – Jan. 4 and again from 9...
View ArticleMan arrested at gas station after causing disturbance with clerk
A 59-year-old man was arrested early Thursday morning after he yelled at a Marathon gas station clerk and was found to be in possession of a $500 bicycle reported stolen out of Key West.Donald Louis...
View ArticleWoman robs taxi driver of $150 in cash
A 25-year-old Key West woman who grabbed a taxi driver and forcefully took a $150 cash fare from his possession was arrested Saturday night.Sherelle Lanay Robinson was charged with robbery, larceny,...
View ArticleVandal(s) hit Marathon golf course
The Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help in finding who or those responsible for apparently driving a large pickup truck over some of the fairways and greens at the Florida Keys Country...
View ArticleBales of suspected cocaine wash ashore in Islamorada
A fisherman returning from sea found between 40 and 60 pounds of suspected cocaine in a bale that had washed up under a dock along the 100 block of E. Carroll St. Saturday morning.The fisherman said he...
View ArticleMan arrested after trying to steal clerk’s wedding ring
A 42-year-old Marathon man was arrested for robbery on Sunday following an investigation into an incident at a gas station on Saturday.Rogerio Mandelli was charged with battery as well as robbery.Sgt....
View ArticleMan arrested for shooting handgun in the air
A 38-year-old man was arrested early New Year’s Day for firing a 9mm handgun into the air on Plantation Key.There were no reported injuries.Andre Lee Brunson of Maryland was charged with discharging a...
View ArticleTeddy Bear donation
Monroe County Sheriff Rick Ramsay (right) and Internal Affairs Inspector Michelle Maxwell (left)are joined byCayo Hueso Resorts owner Joyce Benavides (center) Wednesday. Benavides dropped off a box of...
View ArticleSheriff’s Office Aviation Division targets aggressive driving
Sheriff Rick Ramsay ordered the agency’s Aviation Division to address aggressive driving specifically along U.S. 1 in Islamorada last week, one of the busiest travel weeks of the year in the Florida...
View ArticleIllegal campers arrested with a pound of marijuana, LCD and ecstasy
A man and woman from Ohio were arrested Friday night after a .40-caliber Glock, 1.2 pounds of marijuana, ecstasy and LCD were found in their vehicles.Jordan Boerger, 23, his address was not immediately...
View ArticleSheriff’s Office seeks help identifying suspect
The Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help in identifying the man seen in the attached photos who attempted to steal about $500 items from the Marathon Home Depot on Friday before fleeing on...
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