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A staff member at the Okeechobee County Juvenile Detention Facility is accused of accepting Cash App payments for marijuana ...
Alundria Fuller, an employee at the Okeechobee juvenile detention center, has been accused of smuggling drugs, vapes, and ...
A man suspected of stealing a vehicle from a gas station may have abandoned it near Dixie Ranch Acres in the early morning ...
The Okeechobee County Sheriff's Office (OCSO) says it arrested John Allan Starnes, who's accused of "repeated acts of ...
Nineteen months of repeated sabotage attacks targeting Okeechobee County Fire Rescue and the Emergency Operations Center have ...
A man is behind bars after deputies say he spent more than a year intentionally scattering nails around Okeechobee County ...
A so-called "Nail Bandit" faces criminal charges after Florida deputies say he repeatedly used sharp objects to damage fire ...
The Okeechobee County Sheriff's Office said Thursday afternoon that it is searching for a runaway individual.As of Thursday night, the individual believed to have escaped, 43-year-old be Dwight D ...
There are no indications that the deaths were connected, Okeechobee County Sheriff's Office spokesman Jack Nash said. Banes had been in custody since May 18 while Abruzzi was arrested Aug. 9.
A 72-year-old man is accused of being the “Nail Bandit” responsible for tossing sharp objects in the path of fire and rescue ...
The Okeechobee County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday afternoon that it is searching for a male.The man, who is described as a Black male wearing a white tank top, ran away during a traffic stop ...
A corrections officer at the Okeechobee County Jail was hospitalized after being hit in the head with a 13-pound pot of food by an inmate serving two life sentences for murder.