Law Enforcement

A Fort Myers man will serve four consecutive five-year prison sentences in a case involving severed cat heads and stalking activities.

The 10th annual Stef'An Strawder Memorial Showcase will be at Lehigh Senior High School, starting at 4 p.m. Sunday.

The southbound lanes of I-75 are open Thursday morning after being shutdown Wednesday afternoon and evening during and after an incident involving law enforcement. The Florida Highway Patrol and the Lee County Sheriff’s Office responded to an alert involving the suspect in a fatal shooting in St. Petersburg that was concluded on the freeway at Alico Road exit 128.

Three Naples men were killed Sunday morning and several others injured after a crash on southbound I-75 near the Pine Ridge road exit. A man who had stopped to help was among those killed.

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 funeral service for Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Michael Diego will be held at noon Saturday at First Naples Church with a public viewing beginning at 10:30 a.m.

Emu pursued, lassoed, returned home unharmed

From drones to body cameras, artificial intelligence is changing how police departments are investigating crimes and train officers. While law enforcement leaders call it efficient and lifesaving, questions remain about bias, transparency and how far the technology will go.That shift is already underway in Southwest Florida, where police departments are beginning to rely on artificial intelligence in daily operations.

Choking is the fourth leading cause of accidental death with one child is lost to choking every five days and a total of 5000 people a year. But there is a device that has the potential to help lessen those chances — the LifeVac — and now Collier County Sheriff Office units will all have one of the life-savers. Collier Sheriff Kevin Rambosk displayed the LifeVac at a special media briefing Thursday at the Professional Development Center in Collier County and said the Sheriff's Office is adding 500 LifeVac choking rescue devices, enough to equip every CCSO patrol vehicle.The donation was made possible by The Cassata Foundation and LifeVac inventor and CEO Arthur Lih. Foundation trustees Rosario S. Cassata and his wife Carolyn Cassata are Collier County residents. Lih lives in Southwest Florida as well.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement will break ground Thursday on a new Fort Myers Regional Operations Center to be built on a site in South Lee County.A noon media briefing will announce construction of the new FMROC nearly three years after Hurricane Ian caused structural damage to the current FMROC building at Page Field.