Crime

Orlando Citizen’s Crime desk covers crime and public safety across Orlando and Orange, Osceola, Seminole and Lake counties — reported by Arthur Ivey, our crime reporter.

How this desk works — our standards, in plain language

We report only from official sources. Every fact in a Citizen crime story comes from an official release or public record: the Orlando Police Department, the Orange, Osceola, Seminole and Lake county sheriffs, court filings of public note, or the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. If an agency hasn’t said it, we don’t print it as fact.

Charges are allegations. When police say someone did something, we write “police say” — and we name the agency in the story, so you always know whose account you are reading. A person charged is presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court. That language is not a courtesy; it is a trust feature of this desk, and it never gets edited out for pace.

We name suspects only as official releases name them. We do not publish victim-identifying detail beyond what officials themselves release. We do not treat scanner chatter or social-media rumor as fact: an unverified report is labelled unverified, or we hold the story until an official source confirms it. And when we get something wrong, our Corrections policy applies — the fix is made in the story and noted there.

Latest crime coverage

Osceola Deputies Say a Deputy Shot a Woman Who Pointed a Gun at a Man Outside a Kissimmee Bar — the Sheriff’s Office account of the November 14 shooting on W. Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway; FDLE is investigating, and neither the woman nor the deputy is named in the release.

Orlando Police Say Woman Charged With Murder After Man Found Dead at Shenandoah Way Apartments — Orlando police say a 36-year-old woman has been charged with second-degree murder after a man was found dead at Pacifico Apartments on November 9. The charge is an allegation; police have not released the man’s name.

All crime stories, newest first: the Crime archive. Crime stories also appear on the hub of the area where they happened — a story belongs to its neighborhood as well as to this desk.

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