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The Florida governor’s war on street art hits Fort Lauderdale, where an artist says her rights were violated.

Florida’s AG has a penchant for political spectacle that plays up to President Trump. Taxpayers are picking up the monstrous tab.

In a recent viral social media post, U.S. Sen. Rick Scott makes bold allegations about the recent Los Angeles mayor’s primary election that saw Mayor Karen Bass and Democratic candidate Nithya Raman edge out Spencer Pratt, the former reality TV star endorsed by President Donald Trump.

Collier County sheriff’s reports from 2020 paint a very bleak portrait of Det. Sgt. Kristine Whittaker’s performance as a criminal investigations supervisor.

Lieutenant Arturo Gonzalez, who led the Fort Myers Police Department’s special enforcement division, abruptly retired this week after allegations he was caught on city surveillance video in an affectionate moment with a human resources employee earlier this month, the Florida Trident confirmed.

The federal corruption investigation against him was terminated last November, but Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno faces a new inquiry into some of the same allegations — this time by the Florida Ethics Commission. Editor's note: Watch WGCU's Southwest Florida In Focus tonight for a special interview with Florida Trident's Bob Norman on the Carmine Marceno case.

When a penny stock company in Arizona called Bourque Industries was looking to sell a new form of protective body armor to law enforcement agencies around the country back in 2011, nobody was buying it. Then the Collier County Sheriff’s Office stepped up.

A raft of never-before-seen police reports obtained by the Florida Trident via a public records request portray Carmine Marceno Sr., who was then 67, as a stalker, bully, and thief who routinely roamed a Collier County gated community where he lived in his signature sweat pants terrorizing his neighbors.

When the U.S. Attorney’s Office closed a criminal investigation into Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno in November, Marceno issued a statement calling allegations that he engaged in a kickback scheme “completely false.” But in an undercover FBI recording obtained by the Florida Trident, Marceno, while not admitting personal involvement, is heard telling his alleged co-conspirator that he has his “back” regarding payments that may have been made and assuring him they were his “personal business” and the public had no way to discover they were made.

When Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno won the Republican primary on Aug. 18, 2020, he celebrated in a Bonita Springs hotel suite, where close colleagues and friends stood in a circle around the room as he addressed each one. Among those in the circle were fellow sheriff’s office employees like Capt. Chris Lalor, whom he called “heaven sent,” and John Holloway, who would later become his undersheriff and whom he dubbed the “brains of the operation.” But saved for the end was someone Marceno said came from “a different place,” his closest friend, 56-year-old Ken Romano, a New Jersey-raised jeweler with both the look and voice of a backroom character on "The Sopranos."