Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the solving of four Florida homicides connected to MS-13 gang activity, along with federal murder charges against several MS-13 gang members.

Broward County Sheriff Gregory Tony held a news conference Wednesday afternoon regarding a weekend triple murder case, announcing the suspension of several deputies after he said an internal probe revealed serious shortcomings.

A Florida prosecutor says he will seek to vacate as many as 2,600 convictions of people who bought crack cocaine manufactured by the Broward County Sheriff’s Office between 1988 and 1990.

Seventeen Florida sheriff’s deputies have appeared in court on charges that they stole about half a million dollars in pandemic relief funds.

A detective who has been with a South Florida sheriff’s agency for nearly 21 years is accused of falsifying information and closing out sex crimes cases without a thorough investigation.

A Florida ethics commission has determined that the sheriff of one of the state's biggest counties appears to have lied when he didn’t disclose in his job application that he fatally shot another teenager when he was 14.

A Florida ethics commission has determined that the sheriff of one of the state's biggest counties appears to have lied when he didn’t disclose in his job application that he fatally shot another teenager when he was 14.

News4JAX looks back at how Florida governors have handled sheriff appointments in the recent past.

Broward County’s emergency call center is greatly understaffed and the sheriff told county commissioners his agency doesn’t have the money to fill the empty positions.

Officials say Florida sheriff’s deputies fatally shot a drug suspect who drew a gun on them outside their headquarters.

COVID-19 has had a staggering impact on the sheriff's department in Broward County, Florida.

A Brazilian man who died in a plane crash in South America in 2005 is responsible for the slayings of three Florida women two decades ago, authorities said Tuesday.

A former South Florida sheriff who was removed from office by the governor because of his agency’s response to the Parkland school shooting that left 17 people dead has found a new job reviewing the footage of red light cameras.

Ron DeSantis fired his predecessor Scott Israel over his handling of the 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that left 17 dead. The Broward County sheriff runs a 6,000-employee operation with a half-billion dollar budget, one of the largest law enforcement agencies in the southeast. Israel won election twice before he was removed by DeSantis after the Parkland school shooting. Broward County Mayor Dale Holness said in a statement that Tony deserved to be elected. "Sheriff Tony came into office under circumstances that many questioned, Holness said.

FILE- In this Oct. 21, 2019 file photo, former Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel appears before the Senate Rules Committee concerning his dismissal by Gov. Ron DeSantis, in Tallahassee, Fla. Israel is running against Sheriff Gregory Tony in the upcoming Florida primary. (AP Photo/Steve Cannon, File)

FILE- In this Oct. 21, 2019 file photo, former Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel appears before the Senate Rules Committee concerning his dismissal by Gov. Ron DeSantis, in Tallahassee, Fla. Israel is running against Sheriff Gregory Tony in the upcoming Florida primary. (AP Photo/Steve Cannon, File)FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – The two shootings dominating the Democratic primary for sheriff in Broward County, Florida, couldn't be more different. DeSantis' decision was upheld by the Republican-led state Senate, even though its investigator found DeSantis' grounds didn’t meet Florida law. But Tony, 41, quickly made enemies with the primary deputies' union, which said he fired and disciplined deputies accused of misconduct without due process and wouldn't communicate.

Broward County Sheriff Gregory Tony told reporters over the weekend that he didn't see the need to disclose the 1993 killing to Gov. The former Coral Springs sergeant had quit that department in 2016 to operate a consulting firm that specialized in active shooter training. The Coral Springs employment questionnaire asked several times if he had ever been arrested, charged with a crime or received a notice to appear. "There’s nothing that I had ever done that was a crime,” Tony told the South Florida Sun Sentinel. Bell told the Herald that Tony should have disclosed the shooting to Coral Springs and DeSantis.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – The Florida sheriff's office ripped apart by the 2018 Parkland high school massacre is now facing an angry, public fracture sparked by the coronavirus death of one of its deputies. “Tony has been politically fiddling with facts like Nero as Rome burned,” wrote Bell, the leader of the 1,400-member Broward Sheriff’s Office Deputies Association. Several deputies, including school resource officer Scot Peterson, failed to charge into the building to confront the shooter. Both Tony and Israel are former Republicans, but the county is heavily Democratic and they changed parties before taking office. Before the current rift over protective equipment, Tony clashed with the union after he suspended and fired some deputies accused of excessive force.

Right now, you will lose your license if you have an armed guardian, Book said in a text message. Upon hearing her suggestion, he asked whether it could be considered an expansion of the guardian program. Books plan would tweak the state law that governs voluntary pre-kindergarten education program, and would require action by the Legislature. One of the policy proposals recommended by the panel which made it into state law is an expansion of the guardian program, which allows school personnel to be trained and armed in schools. A statewide survey conducted by the Florida Department of Education showed that more school districts have opted into the school guardian program since June.

(CNN) - Two Broward County Sheriff deputies who responded to the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School were terminated for neglect of duty, Sheriff Gregory Tony said on Wednesday. The terminations of deputies Edward Eason and Joshua Stambaugh came as a result of an internal affairs investigation into the police response to the February 2018 shooting in Parkland, Florida. Of those seven, four have been terminated, including school resource officer Scot Peterson, who is facing criminal charges. He was accused of neglect of duty and failure to meet Sheriff's Office standards, the report says, and was terminated after the committee found him culpable. Peterson has faced sharp criticism for not going into the school building to confront the shooter when he heard gunshots.

Sheriff Gregory Tony will hold a news conference at 9 a.m. to announce the completion of the internal affairs investigation following the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.