Deputies said that Proano had stalked the elderly man, dismembered his body, and stashed the remains in suitcases before discarding them along a nearby roadway.
A body was discovered outside a local home on Tuesday morning, sparking an investigation, according to the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office.
A Central Florida mother says she does not believe her teenage daughter’s boyfriend’s account of the events that led to the 17-year-old’s fatal shooting this week.
An autopsy report has finally been released after a Delta Air Lines staff member died while on the job at Orlando International Airport.
After a 2-year-old girl died earlier this year, her father is now facing charges of manslaughter and child neglect, according to the West Melbourne Police Department.
In a statement on Tuesday afternoon, Sheriff Judd said that detectives were looking into the "suspicious" death of a female victim.
Deputies said there were no apparent signs of foul play, but they are looking for clues into the identity of the body recovered from the river on Tuesday morning.
Bunnell police arrested a 21-year-old Palm Coast woman on Sunday after officers discovered two dead dogs inside a storage unit where investigators allege the animals were kept in “dangerous conditions.”
Emergency crews responded to what they’re calling a “medical emergency” at the Willow Bend Apartments on Silver Star Road in Orlando. According to the Orlando Fire Department, one patient was transported to Arnold Palmer Hospital as a trauma alert.
After an attack at a Seminole County state park left a 31-year-old woman dead, investigators have revealed they’ve matched her DNA to a nearby alligator.
A Central Florida man has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after murdering and trying to rape his girlfriend’s 93-year-old mother, according to the State Attorney’s Office.
After departing from Florida earlier this month, a crew member aboard a Princess Cruises ship has now been declared dead, according to company officials.
New bodycam footage has been released after deputies fatally shot a knife-wielding woman last month, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.
The woman killed in an alligator attack over the weekend has finally been identified, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
Opponents of the death penalty and friends of Dusty Ray Spencer argued Thursday against his pending execution by lethal injection next week for murdering his wife 34 years ago in Orange County.
The boyfriend of a woman mauled to death protecting her dog is now being accused himself of animal cruelty, according to the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office.
Months after 18-year-old Anna Kepner was found dead on the Carnival Horizon, her stepbrother will be held in a Miami detention facility ahead of his trial, according to court records obtained by News 6.
A woman accused of plowing through a Volusia Beach toll booth, killing a worker and then driving into the ocean, will remain in jail ahead of her trial.
Volusia County is exploring safety measures for its beach ramps following a deadly crash in which deputies say a drunk driver sped through the Dunlawton Beach approach, struck the tollbooth and killed the toll attendant before driving into the ocean.
Deputies fired on a woman who came toward them with a knife on Wednesday afternoon, according to Orange County Sheriff John Mina.
New body-camera footage has been released after a truck drove through a toll booth onto a Volusia County beach, killing a toll worker in the process.
A toll attendant was killed Monday after a pickup truck crashed through a beach ramp toll booth and into the ocean in Daytona Beach Shores, the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said.
Prosecutors say Montalvo caused the October 2025 crash that killed three people and left the scene, while new court testimony detailed alleged post-crash repairs and the case’s earlier mistaken arrest.
The dog owner who was arrested a week after her loose dogs killed a woman, according to the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office, won’t be able to leave jail.
The sheriff said that the man was arrested this week after his wife suspiciously died over four years ago. Now, he awaits extradition back to Virginia.
After a woman died from dog bites in Brevard County last week, the sheriff has announced that the dogs’ owner has been arrested.
Two hundred miles away from where 16-year-old Tim Hudson walked into a federal courthouse, his 18-year-old stepsister, Anna Kepner, would have graduated this month.
A woman spent nearly two weeks in jail for a deadly hit-and-run crash investigators now say she had nothing to do with, raising questions about how Florida Highway Patrol handled the initial investigation.
A memorial continues to grow in New Smyrna Beach after a 22-month-old girl was struck and killed by a vehicle on the beach over the weekend, as family members and community members mourn the tragedy.
A new suspect, Alisa Lee Montalvo of Deltona, has been arrested and jailed without bond in connection with the October Interstate 4 crash near Deltona that killed three people after prosecutors filed no charges against the previously arrested driver.
A driver will not be charged after a crash along Interstate 4 left three people dead late last year, according to court records obtained by News 6.
Florida troopers say a 21-year-old woman hit and killed a man who was helping tow her truck from the mud in East Orange County before fleeing the scene. The victim’s family says he was known for always helping others.
A deadly dog attack raises questions why two large dogs that neighbors say were always running loose weren’t taken away from the dog owner sooner.
Detectives are now investigating after a body was discovered on the roof of a local building this week, according to the Melbourne Police Department.
A Brevard County grand jury indicted Lucas Jones, 19, on one count of first-degree murder, along with charges of abuse of a dead human body. Investigators say Jones targeted Colie Lee Daniel, 28, after finding him on the registry of local sex offenders.
Andres Bahamon, who was identified as a person of interest in his father’s disappearance, was arrested on Monday and charged with felony evidence tampering.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier spoke out on Tuesday over a year after a murder convict was sentenced to just four years in prison.
Newly obtained records by Orange County Community Correspondent, Jayna Manohalal, show another 21 sloths died while under the care of Sloth World, bringing the total number of known sloth deaths connected to the facility to 55.
As investigators with the Florida Highway Patrol work to piece together how a mother ended up walking along State Road 46 carrying her baby in a car seat at 3 a.m., a loved one who spoke with her that night is sharing what she knows about the hours before the deadly crash.
Newly-released body-worn camera video shows the moment a Volusia County deputy was shot during a call to a Deltona home in March. Luis Diaz Polanco is facing charges of attempted murder of a law enforcement officer for the March 2 shooting.
According to the sheriff’s office, the teens knew the victim through online gaming and traveled from the Tampa area to Deltona to trade an AR-style rifle — one that was later determined to be stolen.
Transcripts of the confession of the man accused of shooting a Volusia County deputy show what he happened leading up to the shooting.
Chadwick Willacy was put to death by lethal injection Tuesday evening at Florida State Prison in Starke for the 1990 murder of his Palm Bay neighbor who found him burglarizing her home.
A man arrested for killing his ex’s new boyfriend will now spend the rest of his life behind bars, according to the State Attorney’s Office.
A Palm Coast woman accused of giving birth at home, watching her newborn die and burying the infant in her backyard was denied bond Tuesday after her charges were upgraded to first-degree murder.
Months after a chain-reaction crash along Interstate 4 left multiple people dead, troopers announced that the offending driver may have finally been caught.
Two visitors to Central Florida were killed due to a rip current off Cocoa Beach on Tuesday afternoon, according to the fire department.
Two months after a 74-year-old ran in his 31st and tragically final half-marathon, the driver police say drove into the runner’s lane on US-1 and killed Albert ‘AJ’ Swann is now behind bars.
A Central Florida mother is now facing a murder charge after her newborn was found buried in a shallow grave behind her home last month, according to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office.
The young woman who police said told them her boyfriend dismembered a man, stuffed him in suitcases, and dumped his remains in the Compound, told police she was afraid she could be next.
Police said Jones told his girlfriend he wanted to kill sex offenders, and he even printed a listed of registered sex offenders who lived nearby.
The young man police say dumped two suitcases stuffed with human remains in the tall grass at the Compound is now facing a murder charge, too.
Clifford Owen Long, 37, was indicted by a Brevard County grand jury for the 2025 shooting death of 2-year-old Bles’syn Lightner and the attempted murders of her grandparents in South Melbourne.
The vice mayor of Coral Springs was killed in what police described as a “domestic violence incident,” according to the department.
Some neighbors are sickened to hear human remains were found in suitcases in an abandoned area where dead bodies have been found before.
Days after a man was found dead at an apartment complex, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd announced that an arrest has finally been made.
News 6 has obtained newly released body-camera footage showing what exactly happened after a guest was killed on Epic Universe’s Stardust Racers rollercoaster last year.
Port Orange police scoured a property on Thursday in search of evidence related to a case from over 10 years ago, the department confirmed to News 6.
We have a new look at the gunfire that came from a house as police took cover in the middle of a deadly standoff. Three hours later Monday, after officers returned fire, police said the barricaded woman inside the house alone was dead.
A man has been taken into custody after an alleged tire theft left a Mascotte woman dead last week, according to city officials.
After a small child was killed by a hit-and-run driver this week, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd announced that the suspect has finally been caught.
Anne Mae Demegillo, 20, is charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child and is being held without bond, according to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office.
A Jacksonville man was arrested this week, well over a year after his 5-week-old daughter was brought to the hospital with fatal injuries, according to the Volusia Sheriff’s Office.
A Central Florida grandmother is demanding justice after deputies say a teenager intentionally ran over and killed her 17-year-old grandson in Orlando last November.
A 17-year-old boy has been accused of first-degree murder after another teen was killed back in November, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.
Flagler County deputies said a friend who received messages that the woman had secretly given birth called for a welfare check.
A Marion County mother was put behind bars this week after her 3-year-old daughter was beaten to death last month, according to the sheriff’s office.
A man died after being found riddled with gunshot wounds at a Leesburg apartment complex early Wednesday morning, according to the police department.
The death of 18-year-old Anna Kepner on a Carnival Cruise ship last fall has sparked a new child custody fight involving the Titusville teen’s stepsiblings, newly filed court records show.
