Police, Fire and Courts

The three-woman, three-man jury, which heard four days of testimony from 13 witnesses, checked “no” when asked if NCH was negligent and if that negligence was the legal cause of the death of 76-year-old Bernadine Minarcin on March 13, 2009. ...

Marco Island Police Chief Don Hunter terminated Officer Ed d’Allesandro after an investigation revealed d’Allesandro was driving a police vehicle 80 mph in a 35 mph zone without emergency lights or sirens in August prior to crashing his vehicle with ...

Since the Collier County jail was selected to be the pilot location for a whole-body scanner in February, more than 20,500 people and inmates have been scanned. Though the $250,000 high-tech body scanner, RadPRO SecurPASS, was given to the Collier ...

The saying goes, if you want to get a job done, give it to a busy man. Bill Miller certainly qualifies. The business owner and commercial landlord has a full plate of work and civic activities. But, according to Capt. ...

When someone dials 911 for a medical emergency, the last thing on the caller’s mind is the process for how help arrives. That process, though, is critical in determining who responds to the patient, how fast they get there and ...

Marco Island's hunt for a new chief of police didn't take long as former Collier County Sheriff Don Hunter officially took the reigns of the department on Monday morning. Hunter was the only man that City Manager Jim Riviere said ...

Several Collier County fire boards are considering increased tax rates to stay in the black. Cost-cutting measures like furloughs and layoffs have been part of the process to pare down budgets in light of another foreseen property value decline in ...

Thom Carr is neither jumping for joy nor sighing with fears of an impending boredom following his retirement Friday as Marco Island police chief. The former military man has his mind on the Florida retirement classics — golf and boating.

“I had been thinking about it and originally thought about going another year, but been looking at it closer lately,” Carr said. “I’m in my 38th year of law enforcement and enough is enough.”

Marco Island’s top administrator says a kinder, gentler approach to code enforcement is working. Nearly a year ago, at the behest of city manager Jim Riviere, the name of the code enforcement department was changed to “code compliance” and was ...

Just because the wildfires that blanketed the area with smoke earlier in the month were not on Marco, it doesn’t mean local firefighters were not in the heat of battle. This year’s wildfire season has been much more active than ...

A Marco Island woman is accused of forging and cashing her boss’s checks for a total of $14,245.40.

The City of Marco Island may need to pay out more than $31,000 to support the pensions of police officers. The change is due to a more current mortality rate table that is being used to estimate pay outs.

For Joe Oliverio, being arrested on April 21 was one of the most disturbing nights of his life. Now, he’s fighting to clear his name and demanding that the Marco Island police sergeant he claims is responsible for his arrest ...

When Marco Island police responded to a call of a car overheating and on fire in an alley behind the McDonald’s, they arrived to find a 2000 gold Chevy completely engulfed in flames near a Dumpster, according to reports. A ...