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In a complaint filed in November 2011, James Potter Jr. alleged Cpl. John Bartis threatened him and used his Sheriff’s Office colleagues to harass, follow and intimidate him.

Judge Rob Crown also said at least two witnesses told detectives Abraham “Abe” Eckman, 23, had threatened to kill Torres, 25.

A Golden Gate man has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the Aug. 4 death of 25-year-old Ernest Torres Jr., also of Golden Gate.

With its eye on the release of a new database in 2014, the FBI is asking local law enforcement agencies for information on how they track tattoos worn by gang members, terrorists and other criminals.

“Unfortunately, there’s not much to go on,” Lt. Greg Bueno said. Troopers are asking for help piecing together a timeline from anyone who might have seen Wallace between 11 a.m. and 11:26 a.m. Saturday.

After paying $1.96 million for a records management system that failed to launch on time, the Collier County Sheriff's Office has refiled a lawsuit for breach of contract against a Michigan-based tech company.

A month after $17,000 was reported stolen from a youth football and cheerleading league, an East Naples organization is stepping in to help raise money for the team.

Even after being filmed for 22 days on a 1,600-mile bicycle trip, the founder of Brotherhood Ride figured the documentary's showing would be a small-time affair.

Last year, a team of 37 officers, firefighters and emergency responders rode bicycles from Naples to New York to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

In a 12-minute video on YouTube, Angiolillo claimed Leffin did not ask for his insurance information, put the incorrect address on the citation, doctored the ticket and towed his vehicle with a noncompliant tow truck.

After thousands of hours of daily training — “enormous amounts of time,” Delaney says — the dogs tested and were certified by the National Association for Search and Rescue in mid-August.

“He made a strange face at me and fell against the window,” the 11-year-old said. They were headed toward a palm tree when Jackson jumped out of his seat, hit the brakes and steered the bus into a chain-link fence.

Capt. Chris Roberts of the Sheriff’s Office said the bones likely were those of a white or Hispanic man who could have died as long ago as 1994. DNA was extracted from the remains

The Romney-Ryan Rita featured 1800 Anejo, a touch of sour, fresh lime and a splash of 100-year-old Grand Marnier. And The O'Bummer?

After he was busted by Chris Hansen of "Dateline: To Catch A Predator" in 2006, Lee County resident Donald Leroy Morrison thanked the television host.

Those in marketing say spending money on promotional items isn’t a waste. T-shirts, koozies, pens and keychains with an organization’s name stick with customers far longer than a commercial.

This year, Wendy Hudakoc will have been a missing person for more than half her life.

Strange things happened in the weeks after the missing person report was filed. New evidence has emerged that the elusive Wayne Ball is very much alive and possibly playing a strange case of cat-and-mouse with relatives and authorities.

At a presentation Thursday, Emily Castillo said eight out of every 10 children being treated by the David Lawrence Center has tried synthetic marijuana.

A 28-year-old homeless man was arrested early Wednesday morning by Collier County Sheriff's Office detectives after DNA tests linked him to an April armed robbery at an East Naples bank.

“I got physically sick,” said Herberger, who temporarily moved to Naples in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina. “It brought back so many memories. I could even smell that terrible smell that came from the city.

Emergency shelters will open in Collier and Lee counties this morning as a precaution ahead of the expected development of Tropical Storm Isaac into a hurricane that could strafe Southwest Florida beginning late tonight and Monday.

In each case Bedell was ultimately uncooperative with responding Collier County sheriff’s deputies, preventing them from pursuing an arrest.

“Pretty much it’s all gone and we have to start all over,” he said. “We’re asking the community to come out and support the kids. They’re in desperate need.”

“It is frustrating for us. We do want to put suspects in jail and make the victims whole,” said Cmdr. Rod Bishop, of the Collier County Sheriff’s Office. “But if you want us to get your money back and put ...

Abraham Eckman said he and Torres had been in verbal altercations over the woman, who is the mother of Eckman’s child and at the time was in a relationship with Torres, according to a probable cause affidavit.

Collier County Sheriff Kevin Rambosk said underreporting of crimes limits law enforcement’s ability to accurately map out where crimes take place. “If we don’t have that information, we can’t properly assess where we can be," Rambosk said.

Collier's race looks almost exactly the same as the last time voters picked a sheriff: Kevin Rambosk, a Sheriff’s Office veteran, against Victor Ortino, a private investigator with three years under his belt as a highway patrol trooper in the ...

“The new organizational structure streamlines operations and will bring about more efficiency, while maintaining excellent supervision,” City Manager Jim Riviere said.

Concetta “Konnie” Bedell was found dead on her back porch by her teenage son on Wednesday morning. Since then, detectives have been trying to reach Lawrence Joseph MacDonald, 44.

“This is absurd,” she wrote in an application for the injunction. “I am terrified of Lawrence. I just want him to leave me and my children alone.”

“I think the first question on everyone’s mind is, are they related in any way? Evidence obtained so far indicates that there is no relationship between the three cases,” Sheriff Kevin Rambosk said.

As of late Wednesday, the Collier County Sheriff’s Office had not named any formal suspects but was calling 44-year-old Lawrence Joseph MacDonald a “person of interest.”

In a suit filed July 31, Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott is accused of unfair labor practices by the International Union of Police Associations (IUPA).

When Russell Myers got back to his San Carlos Park home last week after a trip to the store, he knew immediately that his longtime girlfriend, Debra Striano, had been killed.

A day after a North Naples man was found killed inside his condominium, Collier County detectives continue to search for suspects.

Joe Godcharles and his only son had breakfast together every Wednesday morning.

In his nightmares, Russell Myers hears voices calling out to him. Strange people come crashing through a wall, or a window. He wakes up shaking.

A 23-year-old man has been arrested for the death of 55-year-old Debra Striano.

“There is no question that we have got to improve border security in this country,” Rambosk said. “I also believe 287(g) should be expanded to more law enforcement agencies across the nation"

Collier County Sheriff Kevin Rambosk said he had been given no indication that his agency’s program would be removed. “We’re very fortunate that we do have a very productive unit,” he said.

Cpl. Curtis Fussell of the North Naples patrol division also was given a letter of final warning and suspended for two days without pay, according to internal affairs documents.

Late Tuesday, deputies found Debra Striano’s body inside the home she shared with her boyfriend and their border collie, Scruffy, in the Three Oaks community, just west of Insterstate 75.

Rambosk’s campaign called the allegations “unfounded” and noted that Ortino had a history of filing complaints against Rambosk that have not been upheld by the Florida Commission on Ethics.

Some time in June, someone sailed Wayne Ball's boat to the Naples City Dock and tied up the 34-foot catamaran. Since then, no one's come back for the $50,000 vessel, and no one has seen its owner.

Text messages, emails, photos and Facebook activity — all of these now are accessible to law enforcement. While not substantial, existing case law in Florida allows officers to search a person’s cell phone after he or she has been arrested.

The study found no evidence the laws deterred crimes like burglaries, robberies and aggravated assaults, and showed states that had adopted such laws saw a 7 percent to 9 percent increase in murders and manslaughter.

Victor Ortino, who is running for the top post in county law enforcement for a second time, has often cited his experience as an investigator as a qualification for the job.

The number of reported homicides, sexual assaults, robberies, aggravated assaults and larcenies dropped, while burglaries and motor vehicle thefts increased.

The two fires do not appear to be connected. “They’re not related in any way,” said Corey Nelson, another Golden Gate fire battalion chief.