Former Port St. Lucie police chief Richard Del Toro was sworn in as St. Lucie County sheriff on Tuesday morning.

Cordero-Stutz, a 55-year-old veteran administrator at the now-defunct Miami-Dade Police Department, defeated Levine Cava’s ...

The Broward Sheriff's Office is seeking help from the community to locate 14-year-old Porshae Thompson, who has been missing since the morning of last Saturday. She was last seen near the 2700 ...

The Broward Sheriff’s Office and Pompano Beach Fire ... scene tape indicate the seriousness of the situation. Broward County Crime Stoppers is asking anyone with information to come forward ...

A Charlottesville jury convicted the former Culpeper County sheriff for accepting more than $75,000 in bribes in exchange for a law enforcement official badge. Scott Howard Jenkins, 53 ...

A former sheriff ... badges and credentials. The jury also heard evidence that Jenkins pressured officials to restore gun rights for Rick Rahim, one of the scheme’s co-defendants, by submitting false ...

In return, Jenkins appointed them as auxiliary deputy sheriffs, a sworn law enforcement role that came with official badges and credentials ... by submitting false residency information to a Culpeper ...

The bribe payors were then issued official Culpeper County Sheriff's Office badges and credentials without being trained or vetted. The undercover FBI agents testifying during Jenkins' trial said ...

CULPEPER COUNTY, Va. — Former Culpeper County sheriff Scott Jenkins was found guilty of accepting bribes in exchange for law enforcement badges and credentials by a jury in a federal trial Dec. 18.

(AP) — A former Virginia sheriff was convicted Wednesday night ... was no connection between the payments he received and the badges he handed out, according to news reports.