Some people are too passive when police offers stop them; other people are too aggressive. A 31-year-old man from St. Lucie County decided that he was not going to be pulled over by the police. Officers had caught a glimpse of the gentleman while he was driving on Indian River Drive. The officer started flagging...Read More

Two police officers from the Vero Beach Police Department have been placed on administrative leave after being arrested by their own department recently after leaving Filthy’s Bar. Neither of the officers was on duty. The first officer was smart enough not to have driven after leaving the bar. He was charged with disorderly intoxication and...Read More

Fort Pierce prostitution sting nets six arrests In a prostitution sting that arose out of complaints about women knocking on doors at area truck stops and motels, six women were arrested by the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies focused their efforts on a relatively small commercial area around the Florida Turnpike, Interstate 95 and...Read More

As a result of a September incident at a Super 8 motel in Lake Worth, a 35-year-old Fort Pierce man is facing assault and battery charges. The apparently homeless man was arrested on September 29 after allegedly throwing a plastic chocolate chip cookie container at a female clerk. This reported action had taken place after...Read More

On Tuesday, September 27, 2016, a high school student from the Fort Pierce area was arrested, according to officials from the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s office. The young man, just 16 years old, was arrested on charges of possession of a weapon, which, according to authorities, was a BB gun, which he brought to his...Read More

Everyone gets hungry from time to time, but it’s not particularly wise to bite a police officer. A 40-year-old woman from Vero Beach was placed in jail with a 3,000 bail for a particularly violent act that occurred at Vero Beach Elementary School. The woman walked into the school office and immediately started hitting the...Read More

A 39-year-old Port St. Lucie man was arrested at his home on the night of August 15 and charged with aggravated assault with a knife. The arrest is in connection with an alleged incident earlier that night at a Subway restaurant located on Southwest Port St. Lucie Boulevard. The arrest report filed by police stated...Read More

A Port St. Lucie man was arrested on the afternoon of September 6, and charged with robbery without using a firearm in connection with a Fort Pierce bank robbery earlier that morning. The arrest was the second that day involving a regional bank robbery, the other taking place earlier in West Palm Beach. The arrest...Read More

A law enforcement officer’s empathy for a turtle injured by a passing car cannot justify an unlawful search and criminal prosecution……. It’s simple.   Anger resulting from empathy for an injured animal does not give the police the right to search your car and arrest you. Most of us like turtles.   They’re goofy, obstinate, relentless, single-minded,...Read More

After a lengthy period of investigation, a Fort Pierce man has been indicted by a federal grand jury on lewdness charges. According to the indictment, the 30 year old teacher sent lewd photographs to a minor student. The man first was brought to police notice after an anonymous citizen told the school district that the...Read More