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Titusville Police release launch traffic advisory ahead of Ax-2 crewed launch.
Titusville Police want to advise motorists to slow down in launch viewing areas, especially on U.S.1, State Road 406 along the A. Max Brewer Bridge, and all surrounding areas.
Titusville Police want to advise motorists to slow down in launch viewing areas, especially on U.S.1, State Road 406 along the A. Max Brewer Bridge, and all surrounding areas.
Significant vehicle and pedestrian congestion delays should be expected.
A MULTI-AGENCY traffic exit plan has been developed to help with a safe exit from the City of Titusville after the Axiom Space Ax-2 launch.
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WATCH: Brevard Sheriff's Office Arrests Merritt Island Man for Animal Abuse After Starving His Dog to Death
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WATCH: Brevard Sheriff's Office Arrests Merritt Island Man for Animal Abuse After Starving His Dog to Death
suspect identified Clarence Jones, 69, from Merritt Island ABOVE VIDEO: Brevard County Sheriff’s Office has arrested 69-year-old Clarence Jones for Animal Abuse after he starved his dog to death, according to Sheriff Ivey. BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – Brevard County Sheriff’s Office has arrested 69-year-old Clarence Jones for Animal Abuse after he starved his dog to […]
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The AP went out on a work detail with a Florida chain gang wearing black-and-white striped uniforms and ankle shackles, created after Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey took office in 2012. He said the unpaid work is voluntary and so popular that it has a waitlist.
“It’s a win-win,” he said. “The inmate that’s doing that is learning a skill set. … They are making time go by at a faster pace. The other side of the win-win is, it’s generally saving the taxpayers money.”
Ivey noted it’s one of the only remaining places in the country where a chain gang still operates.
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On Christmas Day of 1951, it was the 25th wedding anniversary of Harry and Harriette Moore from Mims, Florida. The couple were pioneer activists and lead re of the early civil rights movement in the United States. Unbeknownst to them, later on that night, they would become the first martyrs of the movement.
In 1934, Harry founded the Brevard County, Florida, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) chapter. NAACP worked towards achieving equal pay for equal work for teachers of any race and fought to have lunching prosecuted and attempted to register voters of colour in the region. Harry saw some success during the nascent civil rights movement; voters of colour doubled in Florida during the last half of the 1940s and lawsuits started to be filed to challenge the policy of paying teacher of colour less than their white counterparts.
Due to their civil rights activity, both Harry and Harriette were fired from the school where they both worked. Orange County was a hotbed of racism and violence during the 1940s and early 1950s; the Orange County Ku Klux Klan was gaining popularity and turning more violent by the day.
On that fateful Christmas afternoon, Harry and Harriette had celebrated their anniversary with Harry’s mother and their 24-year-old daughter. They spent the evening eating cake and chatting. At around 10:15PM, the couple climbed into bed and switched off the light. Moments later, there was an almighty explosion; somebody had planted 3 pounds of dynamite under the bedroom floor of the couple.
The force of the dynamite tore open the floor and slammed the mattress to the ceiling before crashing back down. The bedroom was completely obliterated, the front porch had been shredded and the frame of the house destroyed.Harry died on the way to Stanford hospital in the back of a relative’s Buick; Stanford hospital was the closest hospital that would treat people of colour. Harriette died nine days later due to massive internal injuries; she lived long enough to see her husband be buried.
When police arrived at the scene, a sniffer dog picked up a scent which led to nearby Dixie Highway before abruptly stopping. Sure enough Sheriff H.T. Williams found footprints alongside the scent but since he walked through them, the plaster imprint made was useless. Officially, the murders remain unsolved but according to FBI documents, the Orange County Ku Klux Klan are responsible.
Four suspects were known high ranking members of the Ku Klux Klan: Earl J. Brooklyn, Tillman H. Belvin, Joseph Cox and Edward L. Spivey. Despite the evidence against them, no arrests were ever made and all four main suspects are now deceased.
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Dogs on leads, men with chains....
In October 2013, the Brevard County (Florida) Sheriff for s short period took over the Brevard County's Animal Services and Enforcement Department with a hope to make improvements within the agency.
The animal services department has been under close scrutiny for years, and has had three directors or interim directors since 2011. A key concern by some animal advocates: the number of dogs and cats that must be euthanized because more are being brought to the shelters than are being adopted. County officials say the percentage of shelter animals that are euthanized is decreasing.
The Sheriff, as part of his interim leadership deployed jail inmates to help dog-walking at the county's animal shelters in Melbourne and Titusville. The inmates already had been doing some maintenance work there, as well as cleaning of kennels. The sheriff said using jail inmates at the shelters helps supplement shelter volunteers and frees up shelter staff to concentrate on other duties.
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Brevard Sheriff: 22 arrested at cesspool in Brevard County
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Inmates in this county when worked outdoors are often forced to wear leg irons. While they are minimum security low risk offenders serving short sentences, the county sheriff enjoys the added media attention he gets by this practice.
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The Murder of Harry and Harriette Moore
December 13, 2022
Harry and Harriette Moore got married on Christmas Day, 1926 and moved into Harriette’s family home in the fall of 1927. Harry worked as an educator and Harriette worked as a former teacher and became an insurance broker.
In 1927, Harry was promoted to principal at the local Titusville Colored School. Harry taught the ninth grade, and the school was racially segregated like most schools at the time. Harry’s first year teaching was actually closed early by the local school board due to the system’s systemic discrimination against black children.
Harry and Harriette had their first daughter, born in 1928 and moved out of Harriette’s family home and into their own home, in Mims, Florida, given to them by Harriette’s parents. The home was on an acre of land. The couple had their second daughter in 1930. In 1931, Harriette returned to her teaching career and worked at the same school Harry worked at.
Harry was committed to making a difference and being an activist. In 1934, Harry founded the Brevard County, Florida, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) chapter. He served as the NAACP’s first Executive Secretary in the state of Florida. This NAACP chapter worked towards creating equal pay for equal work for teachers of any race, fighting to get lynchings prosecuted and attempted to allow black people the right to vote.
However, Harry’s activism was very controversial within his county, as the county was white-dominated. In 1946, Harry’s activism caused both him and his wife to be fired from their jobs by authorities. After being fired, Harry became a full time employee of the NAACP.
On Christmas night, 1951, the Moores were celebrating Christmas and their 25th wedding anniversary. Later in the night when the couple retreated to their bedroom, a bomb exploded which injured both Harry and Harriette but left their daughter unharmed (the other daughter is not mentioned).
The bomb was made from dynamite and had been placed directly under Harry and Harriette’s bedroom floor. Both Moores were rushed to the closest hospital that would treat African Americans which was located in Sanford, Florida which was almost 30 miles away from the Moore home. Harry died while being transported to the hospital and Harriette died nine days later from her injuries.
Many people believe the only reason the Moores were targeted was due to Harry’s activism in the community. Since the murder there have been five separate criminal investigations completed.
The first criminal investigation was done by the FBI and began on the night of the explosion, ending in 1955. The second investigation was done by the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office and the Brevard County State Attorney’s Office in 1978.
The third investigation happened in 1991 by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE). The fourth investigation was done in 2004 by the Florida Attorney General’s Office of Civil Rights. In 2008, the FBI investigated again as part of the Department of Justice’s “Cold Case Initiative.”
Through the five different criminal investigations, four different subjects were implicated in the bombing. All four were known to be high up members of the Ku Klux Klan in the central region of Florida. The first subject, a man named Earl J. Brooklyn, had a reputation for being violent and was actually expelled from a Klavern of the KKK in Georgia for engaging in unsanctioned acts of violence.
Earl J. Brooklyn apparently had floor plans of the Moore home and was recruiting people to help him in the bombing. The second person involved, Tillman H. “Curley” Belvin was also a violent member of the KKK and was close friends with Earl J. Brooklyn.
Joseph Cox, was also involved and was implicated by another KKK member, Edward L. Spivey. Spivey had actually implicated Cox in a deathbed confession while he was dying from cancer in 1978.
Joseph Cox had actually taken his own life in 1952, one day after he was confronted by the FBI. Both Earl J. Brooklyn and Tillman H. Belvin died while the FBI was working on their initial investigation. Belvin died of natural causes in August 1952. Brooklyn died from natural causes on Christmas Day 1952, exactly one year to the day of the Moore murders.
No arrests were ever made in the case as all 4 members died. The investigation revealed that Harry’s activism made him a target to the KKK. The Department of Justice Civil Rights Division closed the file in 2011.
The next morning after the bombing, December 26, 1951, angry men in black neighbourhoods were going around spreading the word of the bombing. Many men and women, still in their night clothes, walked through the streets protesting. Many of these people knew Harry Moore personally and were angry at this racist attack.
The murders of Harry and Harriette Moore caused nationwide protests. President Harry S Truman and Governor Fuller Warren both received telegrams and letters in protest of the murders. In New York City on January 5, 1952, Jackie Robinson held a memorial service which brought 3000 mourners. The NAACP also held a memorial service in March 1952 in the Madison Square Garden. About 15,000 were in attendance and people like Langston Hughes came to give respects.
In 1952, Harry Moore was posthumously awarded the NAACP’s Spingarn Medal. In 1999, the Moores home became an Historical Heritage Landmark of the State of Florida. Brevard County’s local government christened the “Harry T. and Harriette Moore Memorial Park and Interpretive Center.”
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A Florida school district is taking steps to avoid a situation like the severe police failings during the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey has announced that some school resource officers will be carrying long guns on campuses in the district. The sheriff posted a video announcing the measure and explaining…
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Sheriff Wayne Ivy Provides Update on Amber Estep Homicide Investigation
In a recent press briefing, Sheriff Wayne Ivy of the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office addressed the community regarding significant developments in the ongoing investigation into the tragic homicide of 39-year-old Amber Renee Estep.
On Thursday, law enforcement agents, in collaboration with the West Virginia State Police, apprehended Brian Estep, the husband of the victim, on charges of…
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TITUSVILLE - A Florida sheriff went on Facebook and berated an animal cruelty suspect as a "despicable excuse for a human being" after she was charged with drowning her Chihuahua.
The 32-year-old woman was already in the Brevard County jail on charges she stabbed a 68-year-old man when police were given a video of her allegedly walking into a pool and holding the tiny dog underwater.
Sheriff Wayne Ivey posted a Facebook video in which he described the abuse and made his thoughts clear about the crime.
"There is a special place in hell for this woman. Until she gets there, she's going to rot in our jail," Ivey said.
He showed a brief portion of the video but said it was too graphic to show in its entirety. After drowning the dog, she slammed it down on the concrete patio, then put its body in a chair inside the home for several days, at one point holding it up during a social media post, Ivey said.
"This woman, if I hear as much that she has a pet rock, I will lose my crap," he said.
While the woman was already in the jail, Ivey had her brought outside so he could walk her back in to be booked on the animal cruelty charges.
As he, Ivey, and an animal cruelty investigator walk her back into the jail, the sheriff said to her, "Usually when I'm walking people in, I have something to say to them. I'm disgusted by you. You're looking all sad and stuff. How do you think that dog felt when you were holding it under the water?"
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Suspect charged in shooting deaths of patient, employee at Florida hospital
Florida – Authorities charged a 29-year-old man with two counts of murder in the shooting deaths of a patient and employee inside a Florida hospital earlier Sunday in what is being described as a “random†attack. David Owens (picture), of Titusville, entered Parrish Medical Center at 2 a.m. and used a handgun to shoot and kill 88-year-old patient Cynthia Zingsheim and employee Carrie Rouzer, 36, in Zingsheim’s room, Titusville police said. Police said Owens entered the building through the emergency room before making his way to the third floor. The women were shot in a third-floor room, near where the 210-bed hospital’s birthing suites are located. “It appears to be extremely random,†said Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey. More NUTTY NEWS APPs: iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch – Android Nutty News Today – Nutty Videos – Nutty News on Twitter – Nutty Videos on Twitter – Nutty News on Facebook – Strange Crimes – True Crime Stories – FBI Most Wanted – Amber Alerts – Strange Facts – Today’s Nutty Joke – Technology News – USA Politics
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On the 25th wedding anniversary of Harry and Harriette Moore, celebrated on Christmas Day 1951 in Mims, Florida, the couple, prominent civil rights activists, unknowingly became the first martyrs of the early civil rights movement in the United States.
In 1934, Harry established the Brevard County, Florida, chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The NAACP, under Harry's leadership, advocated for equal pay for teachers of all races, challenged segregation in lunchrooms, and worked towards registering voters of color in the region.
Despite facing opposition, they achieved some success during the burgeoning civil rights movement, witnessing an increase in voters of color in Florida during the late 1940s. However, their activism cost them their jobs at the school where they both worked. The 1940s and early 1950s saw rising racism and violence in Orange County, with the Ku Klux Klan gaining influence and becoming increasingly aggressive.
On that Christmas evening, Harry and Harriette celebrated their anniversary with family. Around 10:15 PM, after a joyful day, they retired to bed. Moments later, an explosive blast rocked their home, as 3 pounds of dynamite had been planted under their bedroom floor. The force of the explosion destroyed the bedroom, shredded the front porch, and left the house's frame in ruins. Harry succumbed to injuries on the way to Stanford hospital in a relative's Buick, the nearest hospital that treated people of color. Nine days later, Harriette passed away due to severe internal injuries, witnessing her husband's burial before her death.
When the police arrived, a sniffer dog led them to Dixie Highway, abruptly stopping without yielding further clues. Sheriff H.T. Williams found footprints at the scene, but they were compromised as he walked through them. Officially unsolved, FBI documents suggest the Orange County Ku Klux Klan's involvement. Four high-ranking Klan members—Earl J. Brooklyn, Tillman H. Belvin, Joseph Cox, and Edward L. Spivey—were identified as suspects. Despite evidence against them, no arrests were made, and all four suspects have since passed away.
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Brevard County Sheriff's Office settles false arrest lawsuit with tourist
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Matthew R Riggins, Florida inmate E47090, born 1993, incarceration intake in 2014 at age 21, discharged in March, 2015 after 15 months
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In December 2015, authorities say a burglary suspect was killed by an 11-foot alligator while hiding from authorities in a Florida pond.
The Brevard County Sheriff's Office says a Florida man, later determined to be 22-year-old Matthew Riggins drowned as a result of the gator attack.
Riggins and another suspect were in a neighborhood in Barefoot Bay to burglarize homes, Brevard County Sheriff's officials say. Riggins and the other man were spotted on Royal Palm Boulevard, but eluded authorities.
Neither Riggins nor the other man was ever located by deputies.
Riggins reportedly called his girlfriend to say he was being chased by authorities. His girlfriend called police the next day to report him missing when he never returned home, Brevard Sheriff's officials say.
The half-eaten body of Riggins was found in a Barefoot Bay lake just north of Ocean Avenue Way on Nov. 23. He was missing his lower extremities and part of his arm, deputies told the Orlando Sentinel.
Sheriff dive team members were recovering Riggins' body when they encountered a large gator "aggressively approaching" them.
Due to trauma observed on the body, a trapper from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission was called, and an alligator approximately 11 feet in length was trapped and euthanized.
The Brevard County Sheriff's Office says the forensic examination of the alligator located remains consistent with the injuries to Riggins inside the alligator's stomach.
Agents later identified the male who was in Riggins' company that night, however he has refused to cooperate with law enforcement in reference to this investigation.
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Prolific criminal arrested; detectives from the Polk County Sheriff’s Office ask for any other victims to come forward
A Pennsylvania man who has an extensive criminal history related to fraudulent business practices in Florida, Maryland, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania, has been arrested. 55-year old Patrick Gorman, whose last known address was in Ruffs Dale, Pennsylvania, was arrested in Brevard County Sunday, February 4, 2024, on a Polk County warrant. Gorman will be brought back to Polk County to face charges…
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