Volusia County jail

The Volusia County Branch Jail and the Tomoka Correctional Institution are practically neighbors, within two miles as the crow flies

John Bloodsworth was charged with child abuse and disorderly intoxication in public after witnesses told police that they saw Bloodsworth’s 5-year-old son struggling in the waters off Daytona Beach while Bloodsworth repeatedly jumped off a nearby pier.

A Florida police officer is charged with threatening to kill a woman and her 5-year-old brother, and to rape her sister if she didn’t send him nude photos of herself.

A youth football coach is accused of child abuse after police say he punched three players from an opposing team during a game.

A man was arrested after authorities say he ran naked through an 82-year-old Florida woman’s home, stopping to try on her clothing.

A police report says 31-year-old Michael Caruso removed an exhaust fan from the ceiling Sunday, made the hole big enough to climb through and escaped from the Orange City Police Department building.

Police in Central Florida busted drug suspects who are apparently big fans of the AMC hit television show “Breaking Bad.”

Roxanne Vargas takes a look at two films the family can enjoy this holiday weekend.

A Florida homeless woman is in Volusia County jail after setting her boyfriend on fire.

A surveyor discovered partial human remains while working in a heavily wooded area near the Volusia County Jail.

Police in Daytona Beach have arrested a 52-year-old convicted sex offender after a homeless pregnant woman was tied up and tortured in a recreational vehicle.

Authorities say a 51-year-old man is accused of shooting his daughter’s boyfriend eight times with a high-powered pellet gun.

Authorities say a homeless man carjacked a vehicle belonging to an advocate who was passing out water to needy people in a Daytona Beach neighborhood.

Police say a homeless man beat and strangled a dog on a South Daytona sidewalk.

A 27-year-old Daytona Beach man is accused of fatally stabbing and beating his grandmother.

A central Florida man faces hate crime charges after authorities say he told a man the bar they were in wasn’t for blacks and hit him with a bottle.

A central Florida man faces charges after illegally killing five small alligators for his Super Bowl dinner.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has charged a father and son with possession of child pornography.

A teenager who was beaten unconscious after a Daytona Beach father says he found him sexually abusing his 11-year-old son will undergo HIV testing.