Deputies arrested a convicted felon in Big Pine Key Friday morning after they said he flashed a gun at a woman giving him a ride home from a bar and then groped her breasts as she drove.

A “good boy” helped in the rescue of an endangered key deer in Big Pine Key.

Two Florida Keys men face the possibility of spending the rest of their lives in prison after they were accused of sexually abusing a 10-year-old child on separate occasions last year.

A charter boat captain in the Florida Keys is facing nearly a dozen charges in connection with a boat crash that left himself and several others seriously hurt over the summer.

A 47-year-old Big Pine Key man was arrested Friday in connection with a fatal drug overdose that occurred last year, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.

Roughly 24 hours after she bonded out of the Monroe County jail after deputies accused her of drowning her Schnauzer puppy, Delaine Lowry was back behind bars after authorities said she tried to break into an animal shelter Wednesday to “steal dogs that previously belonged to her.”

Deputies in the Florida Keys arrested a woman on an aggravated animal cruelty charge after they said she “deliberately and callously” suffocated and drowned a 6-to-10-month-old puppy in a tote bag Monday afternoon.

Deputies in the Florida Keys arrested a 66-year-old man over the weekend on three criminal charges after they said he was caught on camera exposing himself on a neighbor’s property.

A woman visiting the Florida Keys from out-of-state with her husband to meet with a “possible employer” landed in jail after downing half a bottle of liquor in five minutes, crashing into a combination bar-liquor store and then fighting with sheriff’s deputies, authorities said.

A report from Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission investigators released Friday suggests impairment may have played a role in an overnight boat crash in the Lower Florida Keys earlier in the week.

The Local 10 News Weather Authority’s special Staying Storm Safe In Hot Water looks ahead to the Atlantic hurricane season starting June 1.

A 30-year-old woman, who is from Illinois and lives in the Sarasota area, was facing charges on Saturday in Monroe County.

A 30-year-old woman, who is from Illinois and lives in the Sarasota area, was facing charges on Saturday in Monroe County.

The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for the lower Florida Keys on Saturday.

As the end of the legislative session came to a close last week in Tallahassee, an item was added to the state budget that would fund research on a marine mystery that’s developing in the Florida Keys.

Something bizarre is happening to the fish in the lower keys.

A convicted felon accused of luring Key deer into a home, feeding them and even watching Fox News with one of them, now has bigger problems on his hands, according to jail records.

A convicted felon from Big Pine Key is facing criminal charges after authorities said he lured multiple endangered Key deer into his home by feeding them — and posted photos and videos of it all online.

Deputies in the Florida Keys arrested a man accused of hitting another man in the head with a coral rock.

A man who confronted a suspect who stole his tricycle outside of a Florida Keys supermarket wound up on the wrong end of a coconut Tuesday afternoon, according to deputies.

The Conch Republic Marine Army, a growing nonprofit in the Florida Keys, continues to recruit volunteers to keep the waterways clean. But on a recent trip with high school students from Missouri, in the middle of pulling out nearly 350 pounds of trash from mangroves in Big Pine Key, one student made a startling discovery.

Officials in the Florida Keys are warning visitors and residents that dumping trash and hazardous waste on the road is not only a crime, but a threat to the sensitive environment.

A pair of South Florida men are facing felony charges in the Florida Keys after dumping a large container filled with “liquid hazardous waste and oil” right onto the street, deputies said.

A 23-year-old Big Pine Key man remained jailed Thursday after being arrested earlier in the week on six felony charges of possessing child sexual abuse material.

A 28-year-old Sunrise man is facing multiple charges in the Florida Keys after deputies said he threatened to kill and battered three women and closed a dog in a suitcase.

A Canadian man faced two felony child neglect charges in the Florida Keys after deputies accused him of driving drunk and crashing his vehicle with his 4-month-old daughter inside Tuesday evening.

Local 10 News has obtained police body worn camera video showing the arrest of a 67-year-old man in the Florida Keys earlier this month.

A tornado warning was issued Wednesday morning for part of the Florida Keys.

A 67-year-old man was booked into jail in the Florida Keys Thursday after authorities said he threatened to rape and kill sheriff’s deputies and their family members hundreds of times as he was being arrested for driving under the influence.

The Little Mermaid is not the only person who can play and sing some tunes underwater.

Hundreds of divers and snorkelers listened to an underwater concert that advocated coral reef protection in the Florida Keys.

As more tourists come to the Florida Keys, some of whom are buying second homes, more residents are having a harder time finding an affordable place to live.

A fire over the weekend in the Florida Keys is under investigation, and has neighbors who live mostly off-the-grid questioning the services they receive on their island.

A group of 15 Cuban migrants made landfall on Wednesday morning in the Florida Keys, according to The United States Border Patrol.

A man died Wednesday night after being beaten with a pair of pliers in a drug store parking lot in the Florida Keys, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.

The U.S. Border Patrol has apprehended 20 migrants from Cuba who made landfall in Big Pine Key Wednesday morning.

A group of migrants were taken into custody Sunday morning after arriving in the Florida Keys.

Hundreds of people spent time this weekend below the waves for a music festival off the Florida Keys listening to The Beatles’ “Yellow Submarine,” the theme to “The Little Mermaid” and other ocean-themed songs.

Ali Tufo and her boyfriend Tommy Campana left from Palm Beach heading for Key West in Campana's single engine plane, but never made it to their destination.

The U.S. Coast Guard confirmed Friday that it suspended its search Thursday for a couple who is believed to be missing at sea after their plane crashed sometime Sunday.

The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office says an oil and gas sheen was spotted about 9 miles north of Big Pine Key as law enforcement and Coast Guard crews search for a missing couple who was flying a small plane to the Keys.

Loved ones of 36-year-old Ali Tufo say she and her boyfriend Tommy Campana haven’t been seen since Sunday.

A 20-year-old man from Miami turned himself in to authorities on Tuesday after arrest warrants were issued for him relating to the rape of a 16-year-old girl.

A 40-year-old man from Big Pine Key was arrested this week after he threatened another man with a machete over a racial joke he didn’t find funny, authorities said.

Cuban migrants who were on board a homemade wooden vessel made landfall in the Florida Keys Thursday morning.

Deputies arrested three teenage boys after a sexual video of one of them with a 12-year-old girl surfaced on SnapChat at school, Monroe County Sheriff’s Office deputies announced on Tuesday.

According to the Coast Guard, the crew of Cutter Kathleen Moore repatriated 23 migrants to Cuba.

A working-class community in the Florida Keys that helps keep the restaurants, marinas and hotels running is still recovering from the devastating Hurricane Irma in 2017.

Beachgoers stumbled upon bales of marijuana over the weekend that had washed ashore in both Sugarloaf Key and Big Pine Key.

BIG PINE KEY, Fla. – Just days after helping bust a woman for drug possession in the Florida Keys, Monroe County Sheriff’s Office K9 Coral is at it again. This time she alerted deputies to drugs inside a Lexus and a BMW that were pulled over Monday afternoon on Big Pine Key. (Monroe County Sheriff's Office)According to authorities, deputies spotted Howard driving a black BMW south on U.S. 1 around 2:40 p.m. Monday. (Monroe County Sheriff's Office)Dyer is Howard’s boyfriend, according to the sheriff’s office. Authorities said additional deputies were called to the scene along with K9 Coral, who alerted them to drugs in the Lexus and BMW.

PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. – A 41-year-old woman, who Monroe County Sheriff’s Office discovered had outstanding warrants in Broward County for prostitution, drugs and trespassing, was arrested Friday night after a series of violent incidents. Monroe County Sheriff’s Office Deputies said they were called to a scene on Geranium Drive at 10:25 p.m. of reports of a suspicious person who attacked someone. The man who called sheriff’s deputies said he saw a blonde woman lying in the street and when he went to check on her, she slapped a drink out of his hand and hit him. Tweed faces charges of two counts of a battery on a law enforcement officer, two counts of resisting with violence, two counts of resisting arrest without violence and battery. Her warrants out of Broward County are for possession of cocaine, possession of drug paraphernalia, trespassing and prostitution.

MONROE COUNTY, Fla. – Deputies arrested two men and a woman after finding narcotics and marijuana inside of their car on Sunday in the Florida Keys, deputies said on Monday. A Monroe County Sheriff’s Office dog’s findings after a traffic stop in Big Pine Key include 36 grams of heroin, four grams of methamphetamine, and 14 Gabapentin pills. Deputies identified the three arrested as Nicole Webb, 33, and Cory Arthur, 43, of Big Pine Key, and James Barrs, 57, of Naples. Webb faces charges of possession of heroin and possession of a controlled substance without a prescription. Arthur and Barrs face charges of trafficking in heroin and possession of methamphetamine.

A 36-year-old Milwaukee, Wisc., man was arrested after he tried to break a glass door of a gas station, then gave investigators a false name. A sheriff’s deputy responded to a Chevron gas station at approximately 4:15 a.m. after a 911 caller said that he heard loud banging coming from the gas station. The man told deputies that the suspect left when he realized someone was watching him. When he was stopped, Waychoft told the detective his name was David, then said it was David Christ, then Jesus Christ. When deputies went to the gas station, they said they found the door heavily damaged, but still intact.

MONROE COUNTY, Fla. – It was a group of Key Largo residents visiting Big Pine Key who noticed the female Key deer on Sunday. Valerie Preziosi, the founder of the nonprofit organization Save Our Key Deer, said her phone rang. Preziosi said a group of seven volunteers arrived and took turns by bicycle, car, and on foot and saturated the area to find the injured deer. An officer snared the deer and veterinarian Douglas Mader deftly removed the hook with his bare hands, before the stunned deer was released and pranced away. “This successful Key deer rescue is the first in many years achieved through a novel cooperation between federal, state and local resident entities for our native animals,” Preziosi wrote in an email.

KEY WEST, Fla. – A Florida Keys man with a suspended license sped away from a deputy and started an early-morning chase on U.S. 1 before he was finally caught in Key West, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office says. The sheriff’s office says a deputy was called about a suspicious person after 4 a.m. on Barry Lane on Little Torch Key and spotted Springer behind the wheel of a Lincoln Town Car that was blocking traffic. “Springer is known to Deputies from previous law enforcement encounters,” the agency said in a news release. “Deputy White informed Springer that he knows he’s not supposed to be driving as his license was suspended. Springer then sped away and turned southbound on U.S. 1.”Springer again refused to stop when spotted near Mile Marker 15, deputies say, and after spikes were deployed, Springer “continued driving into Key West on rims before finally stopping at the Circle K at North Roosevelt Boulevard and Kennedy Drive.”Springer was taken to jail.

When the deputy approached the driver inside the construction vehicle, he recognized Hawkins as someone he had seen walking just moments before along the same road. According to the deputy, Hawkins had trouble standing and appeared to be intoxicated. Hawkins also denied driving the machinery. Hawkins was charged with driving while under the influence, driving while under the influence with property damage, driving with a suspended license and criminal mischief. The company that owns the vehicle was called and they stated the grader was valued at $120,000, according to Monroe County Sheriff’s.

A Big Pine Key woman was arrested Monday morning for pawning items that she stole from a man's trailer while he was in jail, authorities said. Linhardt said the son found the trailer door open and female belongings scattered throughout the home. The son reported that his father's Gibson guitar and case, Martin guitar and case, Fender guitar and case and a Gamo air rifle were all missing. The victim listed items of value inside his trailer for detectives, which included a flat-screen TV, Milwaukee tools and a computer. Adams Kidwell was taken into custody Monday on charges of fraud, burglary and grand theft.