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Edward Franco

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Oct 1, 2026
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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Edward Franco

    Bonita Springs woman accused of using AI to make violent threats against Lee County Sheriff's Office (opens the original)

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    A Bonita Springs woman was arrested after she was accused of using an artificial intelligence platform to make violent threats against the Lee County Sheriff's Office. According to investigators, Carli Michelle Heller, 30, reportedly made threatening statements in a chatroom using Anthropic's Claude AI platform. The AI flagged the messages and escalated them to a human review team, which then notified law enforcement. The arrest report states that on Sept. 26 at approximately 5:10 a.m., Heller r

  2. Article · Sep 26, 2026 · Edward Franco

    Fort Myers residents alarmed by sightings of naked man in apartment complex (opens the original)

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    Residents of the Grand Central Apartments in Fort Myers are raising safety concerns after multiple sightings of a naked man walking around the gated community. “A naked man! Walking around!” said Yvonne Prieto, a resident of the complex located near US-41 and Silver Gate Lane. Prieto said she first learned about the incident on Thursday morning when she opened an email from the apartment’s management team. The email, which included blurred images, stated there had been multiple sightings of the

  3. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Edward Franco

    Naples Manor man accused of threatening woman with gun found by deputies in a dirt pile (opens the original)

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    Collier County deputies arrested 33-year-old German Perdomo Landaverde after he was accused of threatening a woman with a gun and chasing her outside a tiki bar in Naples Manor early Sunday morning. According to the arrest report, the incident occurred near US-41. The victim called 911, and deputies searched for Landaverde using K-9 units and a drone. Body-worn camera footage shows deputies locating him in a dirt pile off Hardee Street and Georgia Avenue. "Everyone has to always be on alert, and

  4. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Edward Franco

    Charlotte County deputies search for man accused of assaulting woman on Genesee Street (opens the original)

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    Charlotte County deputies are still searching for a man accused of assaulting a woman near her home on Genesee Street in South Gulf Cove almost two weeks ago. The victim, in a frantic 911 call, described the attack as happening quickly. "Honestly, I don't know, it happening so [expletive] fast," she said, her voice emotional. She told deputies the man fled after hurting her near a garage behind her home in the early morning hours of Sept. 11. "I locked the shop there and then went to go around t

  5. Article · Sep 22, 2026 · Edward Franco

    Lehigh Acres man accused of more than $42K in credit card fraud over two years on the Gulf Coast (opens the original)

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    A Lehigh Acres man has been arrested after he was accused of committing more than two years of credit card fraud, with investigators linking him to over $42,000 in unauthorized purchases. "Fraud has definitely increased," said Christina DePari, a fraud prevention specialist and compliance and risk management officer at Edison National Bank. DePari explained that fraud has become "much more complicated and much more advanced than what we've seen in the past because of our technology now." Investi

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