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A woman, who asked not to be named and identified herself as an essential worker and a U.S. citizen, said on Friday that a Miami Herald video showed the third time that she had been stopped for an immigration inspection.
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Two men have been arrested in Hillsborough County in connection with the theft of a storage trailer in Key Largo that contained about $35,000 worth of property, including guns, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday.
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Dramatic cellphone video shows a woman being forced from a car Wednesday by federal agents in the Florida Keys.
A 53-year-old Key Largo man was arrested earlier this week for illegally dumping more than 6,000 pounds of trash on Monroe County property, authorities confirmed Friday.
FBI Miami special agents are investigating a human trafficking operation that federal prosecutors announced on Friday, so far, has three suspects awaiting trial and three convicts in prison.
Did you know 43% of Monroe County residents live below the federal poverty line?
Authorities have released body camera footage showing the response from first responders after a child was bitten by a shark.
An American crocodile shot in the head with a spear gun and rescued in the Florida Keys on Monday "also has a bullet in between the eyes," staff at Zoo Miami said on Tuesday.
State wildlife officers are seeking information and offering a reward after an American crocodile shot with a spear gun was spotted in Key Largo.
Card Sound Road was closed in both directions after a motorcyclist crashed and died on Sunday in Miami-Dade County.
A chaotic and dangerous wrong-way chase in the Florida Keys ended at a Key Largo resort ― and with two of the three suspects trying to hatch creative ways to blend in, witnesses and deputies said.
Several people were taken into custody following a chase in the Florida Keys.
Four Florida Keys bail bondsmen, two of whom were already facing legal trouble in Miami-Dade County, were booked into the Monroe County jail on an assortment of charges on Tuesday.
A Key Largo man is facing an attempted murder charge after deputies said he tried to kill his roommate with a bow and arrow Tuesday morning.
About two days after a shark attack off the Florida Keys, the parents of an 8-year-old boy from Pinecrest said he remained hospitalized on Wednesday -- and they were “immensely proud” of his 10-year-old sister’s “strength of character and composure.”
For the first time, commissioners in the Florida Keys used a surplus of tourist tax dollars to build affordable housing for tourism workers, thanks to a Florida law passed in 2024.
Tributes poured in over the weekend for a South Florida charter boat captain after authorities said the 43-year-old became the victim of a deadly road rage shooting in the Orlando area.
A Broward County firefighter’s visit to the Florida Keys over the weekend came with a felony, sheriff’s deputies said.
A community in Key Largo was told it would be second on the county’s list to receive flooding relief.
A man in Key Largo was under arrest after police said he was fleeing from a traffic stop.
It’s a big day for students in Monroe County as they’re heading back to school.
There was an open house on Tuesday at Key Largo, an A-rated public elementary and middle school in the Monroe County School District.
A Miami federal jury has sided with plaintiffs suing Tesla over the company’s Autopilot system. Jurors found the company partially liable as they handed down a nine-figure verdict Friday afternoon.
A critical voice took the stand Wednesday in the first-ever federal jury trial involving Tesla’s Autopilot system: a safety expert who says the technology is defective and promoted in ways that encourage misuse.
Two bail bondsmen working for a South Florida company are accused of bailing out a couple who never even hired them and then demanding that they pay up.
A Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputy was arrested on a driving under the influence charge in the Florida Keys Monday night.
A 26-year-old man from Bohemia, New York, was arrested Thursday night in Key Largo after authorities say he hit another man with a brick during a domestic dispute.
A Washington man used a net to catch butterflies at a park in Key Largo, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission announced on Monday.
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers arrested an Oakland Park man on Wednesday in connection with a December boat crash in the Florida Keys that left his son’s girlfriend dead.
A mother manatee known as “Stripes” and her newborn calf were rescued near Key Largo on Thursday after the adult manatee was found severely entangled in fishing line, according to officials with the Dolphin Research Center and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
A Miami-Dade County mother faced charges Thursday in Monroe County for allegedly protecting her 15-year-old son after he shot at his romantic rival.
A 43-year-old Key Largo woman’s badly-beaten body was left concealed under a water heater in a room in a resort hotel room on the island for two days before authorities discovered her Monday, according to a newly-released arrest report from the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies found a 43-year-old woman dead at a Key Largo resort and said she was the victim of a homicide.
A man riding an electric scooter died Sunday evening after colliding with a pickup truck in Key Largo, the Florida Highway Patrol confirmed Monday.
A Key Largo man is facing three felony charges after deputies said he sexually battered a 7-year-old girl.
A large brush fire continued to cause significant disruptions in two South Florida counties Wednesday.
U.S. Border Patrol agents recently detained the driver of a blue Mitsubishi in the Florida Keys.
A 15-year-old boy opened fire and wounded another teenager during a fight over a girl in Key Largo, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.
A 62-year-old man died Monday after losing consciousness while diving at the Spiegel Grove wreck off Key Largo, authorities said.
A Key Largo man was arrested Thursday after he attacked a Monroe County Sheriff’s Office sergeant, authorities announced Friday.
Two Florida Keys men face the possibility of spending the rest of their lives in prison after they were accused of sexually abusing a 10-year-old child on separate occasions last year.
Monroe County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. James Hager had an unusual task Friday morning — helping residents in the Pirates Cove subdivision near Mile Marker 98 remove an unwelcome guest from their backyard.
Residents of the Ocean Reef area of Key Largo received a chilling message from the county on Tuesday.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission released new details Tuesday in an arrest that stemmed from a deadly late-December boat crash off Key Largo.
In a wild and violent chain of events Sunday, a Key Largo man being arrested for attempted murder stole a Monroe County Sheriff’s Office sergeant’s patrol cruiser, drove away and then stopped a woman and carjacked her SUV, later wrecking it on U.S. 1, according to the agency.
More than 35,000 property owners in the Florida Keys received an extra tax bill this week.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is investigating a boat crash in Key Largo that occurred early Sunday morning.
A boat crashed into the Card Sound Road Bridge in Key Largo Wednesday night, injuring several passengers, with one requiring an airlift for treatment. authorities confirmed Thursday.
Key Largo residents Jason and Marketa Kendall are moving up.
Monroe County Mayor Holly Merrill Raschein said the way construction is done in the Florida Keys has to change.
A 39-year-old Davie man is facing a felony charge in the Florida Keys after deputies said he pointed a gun at two people during a road rage incident on Tuesday afternoon.
Monroe County Public Schools announced all of the schools and districts’ offices will be closed on Thursday as part of preparations for Hurricane Helene’s impact in Florida.
Monroe County Sheriff Rick Ramsay says four men and one woman arrested on smuggling charges in the Florida Keys are part of a sophisticated human trafficking operation.
Five people are facing 20 felony charges a piece after authorities said they helped to smuggle 20 migrants onto the shores of South Florida over the weekend, officials announced Tuesday.
Preparations are underway in the Florida Keys as residents brace for the possible impact of Tropical Depression Four.
A tropical storm warning and a flood watch by the National Hurricane Center were in effect on Friday night in the Florida Keys, from Key Largo to Key West.
The Florida Highway Patrol released videos on Friday showing the arrest of a police officer with the Doral Police Department for allegedly driving under the influence on May 20 in Monroe County.
Drivers in the Upper Keys should expect significant traffic congestion on the Fourth of July due to a parade in Key Largo, authorities confirmed Wednesday.
The Florida Keys Mosquito Control District has activated its mosquito-borne disease response plan and intensified mosquito control operations in Key Largo and Upper Matecumbe Key, the organization announced Monday.
Bricks of suspected cocaine were discovered by scuba divers on Wednesday off Key Largo.
Over two dozen individually wrapped kilograms of suspected cocaine were discovered by scuba divers on Wednesday in approximately 100 feet of water in the Atlantic Ocean, authorities confirmed.
The cases against a man and woman once accused of more than a dozen felonies in the Florida Keys were dropped, according to court records.
A worker at a South Florida McDonald’s is facing three felony charges after sheriff’s deputies said she attacked customers during a drive-thru dispute over the weekend.
After a recent pursuit in the Florida Keys, deputies reported finding a woman who said she worked as a nurse in possession of cocaine, records show.
A 35-year-old woman from Miami-Dade County was behind bars on Sunday in the Florida Keys.
Authorities responded to a migrant landing on Thursday morning in the Florida Keys.
Deputies in the Florida Keys arrested a man Thursday after they said he set his former workplace on fire, causing more than $1,000 in damages.
A Wisconsin fugitive who deputies say kidnapped a 13-year-old girl from South Carolina and brought her to the Florida Keys is now facing several child rape charges in the Palmetto State.
Something bizarre is happening to the fish in the lower keys.
An Islamorada man is facing felony and misdemeanor charges after being arrested for driving under the influence for the seventh time, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies found a kidnapped 13-year-old girl from South Carolina early Tuesday morning in a wanted man’s vehicle parked at a Key Largo shopping center, authorities said.
A former homeowners association bookkeeper spent nearly $34,000 of residents’ money on various personal expenses — ranging from bath bombs, bras and toilet paper to hotels and gynecologist visits — over a two-year span, deputies say. Now, she’s facing dozens of felony charges in the Florida Keys.
A jury acquitted a Key Largo man of sexual battery after he had been accused of raping a woman.
Newly-obtained dashboard and body camera video shows the arrest of a Cutler Bay man accused of riding his motorcycle at 160 mph in the Florida Keys and, at one point, clipping a Monroe County deputy’s gun belt as he fled law enforcement.
A federal regulatory agency is blaming a Key Largo marine construction company for the death of one of its workers back in March, proposing fines of nearly $100,000.
A Hialeah man was in his birthday suit on his birthday at a resort in the Florida Keys, according to deputies, and what he’s accused of doing in a hot tub has landed him in hot water with the law.
James Hager, a sergeant with the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, rescued two divers who they said were drifting from their boat at Molasses Reef, south of Key Largo on Friday.
A 54-year-old Key Largo woman blamed her Yorkshire terrier when deputies pulled her over for a traffic violation Wednesday night, but she was actually drunk, according to a Monroe County Sheriff’s Office arrest report.
A boat was fully engulfed in flames near mangroves in Key Largo.
Authorities in Massachusetts arrested a Key Largo man Tuesday after the rescue of a woman aboard his yacht led them to a trove of guns, ammunition and drugs, according to court documents.
Authorities arrested a Miami man they suspected of wreaking havoc on the water in Key Largo earlier this month, spinning a yacht in circles and causing damage to multiple boats in the process.
A 32-year-old Key Largo woman was arrested Saturday after threatening to harm a child, deputies said.
A woman was thrown off a personal watercraft when it exploded in the waters off the Florida Keys, and the incident was captured on cellphone video.
A Key Largo man was charged under Florida’s felony littering statute after Monroe County deputies accused him of illegally dumping more than two tons worth of trash.
A 65-year-old man died in a “dive incident” off Key Largo Monday morning, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.
A Key Largo woman witnessed her then-husband raping a girl and did nothing about it, according to a Monroe County Sheriff’s Office arrest report.
Wildlife experts are urging boaters to be aware of their surroundings and obey posted speed limits as boat strikes continue to rise in South Florida.
A worker died after falling from a crane in a construction accident in Key Largo Tuesday afternoon, Monroe County Sheriff Rick Ramsay said.
Over a dozen Cuban migrants were taken into custody overnight Saturday after arriving on a homemade boat, according to a top U.S. Border Patrol official.
A Florida state trooper struck and killed a pedestrian in Key Largo early Monday afternoon, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
Multiple agencies responded Tuesday morning after a sail freighter with what appeared to be more than 100 Haitian migrants onboard attempted to make landfall in Key Largo.
Monroe County officials followed Gov. Ron DeSantis’s decision to declare a state of emergency on Friday as Tropical Depression Nine strengthened in the Caribbean and meteorologists warned it will likely hit Florida as a hurricane next week.
A woman called 911 asking for help for a Transportation Security Administration officer who later died on Wednesday in a gated community in Key Largo.
Every time desperate Haitian migrants in crowded wooden boats arrive in South Florida, Leonie M. Hermantin said she thinks about what they are trying to get away from.
Photos and video sent in to Local 10 News show a packed sailboat surrounded by boats from multiple law enforcement agencies, including the U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Customs & Border Protection Air and Marine Operations division.
Officials urged drivers to avoid the “18-Mile Stretch” of U.S. 1 between Florida City and Key Largo due to a fatal crash Friday afternoon.
A police pursuit stretched into the upper Florida Keys on Monday afternoon, and it was all caught on camera.
Video from deputies’ body camera and dash cam shows when an off-duty Miami-Dade police officer was arrested last month in the Florida Keys.
