Florida Highway Patrol says 41-year-old Bryan Howard smoked marijuana oil and took prescription drugs hours before the collision that caused the bus to veer off State Road 40 and crash into a horse pasture.
The Marion County Sheriff’s Office has arrested 34-year-old Roderick Kelvin Watson Jr. and charged him with second-degree murder in the shooting death of the father of his fiancée’s children.
The Levy County drug task force says 62-year-old Thomas Weber was selling large quantities of meth and fentanyl out of his home in Rainbow Lakes Estates.
The Ocala Police Department says officers acted according to protocol to subdue a man suffering from mental health issues.
Ocala Police say the man was in the process of being admitted to a mental health and addiction treatment facility when he ran away from family members.
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An arrest report indicates 41-year-old Bryan Howard told investigators he was driving to a methadone clinic where he receives daily medication for a chipped vertebrae when the accident happened.
A judge denied bond for 41-year-old Bryan Howard who is charged with DUI-manslaughter in connection with a bus crash near Dunnellon that killed eight migrant workers.
Troopers arrested 41-year-old Bryan Howard in connection with the deadly crash. A check of Marion County’s jail records shows Howard has been booked into the jail at least seven other times.
Gainesville police say they found a 57-minute video depicting the sexual assault of a child on the Snapchat account belonging to 21-year-old Joseph Carnes.