Kristina Bugante

2 months ago | nbcmiami.com | Kristina Bugante

A volunteer basketball coach for a community center in Miami was arrested for allegedly sending inappropriate and sexual text messages to a 10-year-old boy, police said. Charles Williams, 26, was arrested Tuesday on several charges, including lewd and lascivious exhibition and conduct on a child, promoting sexual performance by a child, and tampering, according to a police report.

2 months ago | nbcmiami.com | Kim Wynne |Kristina Bugante

Police on Thursday identified the man who was shot and killed by an off-duty officer at an RV park in Fort Lauderdale. The shooting happened Wednesday evening at the Yacht Haven Park & Marina Resort at 2323 West State Road 84, according to Fort Lauderdale Police. A property manager alerted the off-duty officer, identified as Lieutenant Jonathan Bohm, of a man inside the property causing a disturbance, police said.

Jan 7, 2025 | nbcmiami.com | Kristina Bugante

Police released the body camera footage of the moments officers fatally shot an armed man who was having a mental crisis and holding his brother hostage last month in Fort Lauderdale. The incident happened Dec. 11 in the area of Southwest 25th Avenue and 22nd Avenue, where Fort Lauderdale Police received calls from the family members of Jalen Moore, 22, and reported he was armed with a gun and was inside the home with other family members, including an infant.

Dec 6, 2024 | nbcmiami.com | Kristina Bugante

Dashcam video captured a man dangerously weaving in and out of traffic on the Seven Mile Bridge in the Florida Keys before he got out of his truck and jumped into the water below. Joshua Seth Lapidus, 34, of Homestead, was later captured, handcuffed and caught on another dash camera asking a Florida Highway Patrol trooper for leniency. "Listen, I know I did some stupid s--- just now, but it wasn't that stupid," he says. "It was that stupid," the trooper responds.

Nov 21, 2024 | nbcmiami.com | Kristina Bugante

The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office has identified the two motorcycle deputies who died and another who was critically injured after they were hit by a car Thursday morning. The crash happened on State Road 80 in Loxahatchee, in western Palm Beach, while the three deputies were working traffic enforcement, Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said in a news conference. One of the deputies' motorcycles wouldn't start, so the three were standing on the grassy shoulder waiting on battery jumper cables.