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6 days ago | 
villages-news.com | Jordyn Pennington
The Sumter Schools Enhancement Foundation, in proud partnership with the Wildwood Wildcats Booster Club, announced the 2025 recipients of the Jump Start Scholarship. Sixteen exceptional graduates each earned a 30-credit tuition and fee scholarship, opening doors to Florida colleges, universities and technical schools.
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6 days ago | 
leesburg-news.com | Jordyn Pennington
An Ocklawaha woman was arrested on a warrant after allegedly destroying her sister’s house and threatening her boyfriend with a knife during an “episode.”On afternoon of June 16, an officer with the Fruitland Park Police Department was dispatched to a criminal mischief complaint in the 700 block of Phoenix Avenue1, according to an affidavit of probable cause out of Lake County.
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6 days ago | 
leesburg-news.com | Jordyn Pennington
A woman was arrested after allegedly attacking her boyfriend and coming at him with a knife during an argument. Officers responded to a battery at an undisclosed residence around 1:35 a.m. Sunday, June 15, according to an arrest report from the Leesburg Police Department. The caller told dispatch he had been struck in the face by his girlfriend, 28-year-old Emily Lasha Gaynor, who “pulled a kitchen knife” on him.
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6 days ago | 
leesburg-news.com | Jordyn Pennington
A woman is spending an additional 45 days in jail after bragging about smuggling fentanyl into the Lake County Jail. A detention deputy working at the Lake County Jail was stopped by a female inmate who wanted to speak with him, according to an arrest report from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office. She told him to keep an eye on cell 51, which housed 35-year-old Tiffany Danielle Skidmore. “She told me she never got strip searched in booking and snuck in her fentanyl,” the inmate told the guard.
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1 week ago | 
leesburg-news.com | Jordyn Pennington
A man from Chile was arrested for theft after allegedly attempting to steal nearly $200 worth of steaks at Walmart. A deputy responded to Walmart, located at 550 U.S. Hwy. 27, Clermont, at 11:10 a.m. Wednesday, according to an arrest report from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office. An asset protection associate had been monitoring 37-year-old Luis Eduardo Arancibia Espinoza for retail theft.
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1 week ago | 
leesburg-news.com | Jordyn Pennington
A Winter Garden man wanted for battery was arrested after trying to get away from officers who found him parked in a shopping center. Officers observed a gray Hyundai Accent in a Clermont shopping center, located at 1500 Oakley Seaver Drive, around 5:55 p.m. Wednesday, according to an arrest report from the Clermont Police Department. The primary driver of the vehicle, 30-year-old Justin Travis Lynam, had an active warrant for his arrest for domestic violence.
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1 week ago | 
villages-news.com | Jordyn Pennington
A woman was arrested on drug charges after her Cadillac was pulled over on State Road 44 not far from the Lake Deaton Boat Ramp. A deputy noticed the driver of a black Cadillac Escalade, later identified as 33-year-old Kara Mariah Weller, headed eastbound on State Road 44 with nonfunctioning passenger-side headlight around 10 p.m. Thursday, according to an arrest report from the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office. Another deputy saw it, too, and initiated a traffic stop.
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1 week ago | 
leesburg-news.com | Jordyn Pennington
A mother was arrested after falsely claiming that a stolen firearm found during her son’s arrest belonged to her. On Wednesday afternoon, 50-year-old Denise Banks Forbes of Tallahassee went to the Clermont Police Department, located at 3600 S U.S. Hwy. 27, regarding the arrest of her son, according to an arrest report from the CPD. The officer she spoke to was familiar with the case because he was the arresting officer for the charges.
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1 week ago | 
villages-news.com | Jordyn Pennington
A Wildwood man was arrested for battery after allegedly punching a woman and the man who got in between them. A deputy responded to a physical disturbance involving 21-year-old Ienosente Mauricio Crawford at an undisclosed residence in Wildwood around 2:45 p.m. Sunday, according to an arrest report from the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office. The deputy spoke with two victims, a man and a woman, about the incident. The man stated Crawford punched the woman, so he got in between them.
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1 week ago | 
villages-news.com | Jordyn Pennington
An Ocklawaha man was arrested when he was found in a stolen vehicle with glass pipes and live ammunition as a convicted felon. A deputy spotted 45-year-old Reginald Kenneth Jeffery in the driver’s seat of a stolen silver Ford F150 around 1:25 p.m. Tuesday, according to an arrest report from the Marion County Sheriff’s Office. The vehicle was parked in Belleview, with the keys in the ignition. Jeffery was detained, and a glass pipe was found on the front passenger seat.
