Man Arrested After Pointing Laser At Police Helicopter In Florida Neighborhood
September 2025
Law enforcement officers responded to a serious incident involving a suspect who pointed a laser at a police aircraft flying over 929 16th Street West. Using aerial surveillance and coordinated ground response, officers quickly tracked the laser’s source to a residence with a small car and four-door sedan in the driveway.
Officers arrested the man on the back porch without incident. Pointing a laser at an aircraft is a federal offense due to the extreme danger it poses to pilots and public safety. WFLA brings you the exclusive footage and police audio from the scene.
A man who is known for grabbing Nancy Pelosi's podium during the U.S. Capitol riot is running for a county office in Florida.
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— A man who grabbed then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s podium and posed with it for photographs during the U.S. Capitol riot is running for county office in Florida.
Adam Johnson filed to run as a Republican for an at-large seat on the Manatee County Commission on Tuesday. That was the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot, where he was photographed smiling and waving as he carried Pelosi’s podium after the pro-Trump mob’s attack on Jan. 6, 2021.
Johnson told WWSB-TV that it was “not a coincidence” that he filed for office on Jan. 6, saying “it’s definitely good for getting the buzz out there.” His campaign logo is an outline of the viral photograph of him carrying the podium.
He’s far from the first person implicated in the Jan. 6 riot to run for office. At least three ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 2024 as Republicans. And there are signs that the Republican Party is welcoming back more people who were convicted of Jan. 6 offenses after Trump pardoned them...
Adam Johnson carries the lectern of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi through the Capitol rotunda on Jan. 6, 2021.
The last prisoner strapped to a table in Florida's death chamber was 74 years old - the oldest the state has executed in modern times. The next two set to die are older still.
The series of executions, due to be carried out by the end of this month, highlights the nation's aging death-row population. One of Florida's prisoners scheduled to die in July, a man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend's parents in 1986, is 80 years old and would be only the second known octogenarian to be executed in the U.S...
This combination of undated booking photos provided by the Florida Department of Corrections shows, from left, Dusty Ray Spencer, Dennis Sochor and Dominick Occhicone.
The FBI has arrested a 21-year-old Florida resident, identified as Zyaire Dontaevious Zamarion Wilkins, for allegedly distributing malware embedded in a series of Steam games to approximately 8,000 PCs. Arrested last week, Wilkins—alongside two unnamed co-conspirators—is accused of using the private information stolen from those infected computers to steal over $200,000 in cryptocurrency...
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Saw this on the news this morning this is 67th avenue a d the 826 westbound .Miami lakes. This is a Stones throw from me. We don't have gators in this area. They're further west in the Everglades and alligator alley
A Florida man named Anthony Gordon was arrested and charged with a third-degree felony for domestic battery by strangulation following an argument with his girlfriend in Largo.
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According to an arrest affidavit cited by The Smoking Gun, Anthony Gordon, 32, was arrested and charged with domestic battery by strangulation following an incident involving his 45-year-old girlfriend.
Police in Pinellas County said the couple was lying in bed earlier this month when the woman allegedly asked Gordon "not to fart in bed." The affidavit states that Gordon responded by calling her a derogatory name, prompting the woman to spit on him.
Investigators allege Gordon then grabbed the woman by the throat with both hands and pulled her from the bed onto the floor. The woman told police the choking lasted several seconds before ending when she bit Gordon's finger...