A tropical storm watch was in effect for the Florida Keys Monday as Hurricane Milton roared off the Gulf of Mexico.

Monroe County Sheriff Rick Ramsay says four men and one woman arrested on smuggling charges in the Florida Keys are part of a sophisticated human trafficking operation.

A Florida Keys sheriff’s deputy facing 19 felony charges after her own agency accused her of illegally accessing its databases to pass along information to her teenage “drug dealer” boyfriend was set to be fired Wednesday evening, her employer announced.

Five people are facing 20 felony charges a piece after authorities said they helped to smuggle 20 migrants onto the shores of South Florida over the weekend, officials announced Tuesday.

A Florida Keys sheriff’s deputy was arrested by her employer on more than a dozen computer crimes charges Wednesday, officials said.

Sheriff Rick Ramsay is proud of the peculiar collection of over 150 animals at the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office Animal Farm, a USDA-certified zoo at the Stock Island Detention Center in Key West.

A Monroe County Sheriff’s Office deputy is facing a felony charge after authorities said he broke into his ex-girlfriend’s home in Key West Monday morning.

A deputy fatally shot an armed girl in the Lower Florida Keys Monday morning, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.

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 head-on collision in the Florida Keys left multiple injured Saturday, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.

One week after Local 10 News highlighted concerns over a construction site crash in the Florida Keys, the Monroe County Sheriff says changes could be coming to the area.

Body-worn camera obtained exclusively by Local 10 News shows the frantic moments after a big rig crashed into a concrete barricade on U.S. 1 in the Florida Keys.

The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office gave Local 10 an inside look at the department’s body scanning technology that detects potential contraband before it enters the jail.

A Miami man who is an inmate at the Monroe County Detention Center on Stock Island is now facing more charges after he allegedly threatened to kill a Florida Keys judge, his defense attorney and a state prosecutor, authorities announced on Thursday.

Monroe County Sheriff Rick Ramsay is urging to public to be aware of holiday toy drives that are being hosted by the Pagans Outlaw Motorcycle Club, one of South Florida’s most notorious gangs.

Numerous residents in the Florida Keys have reported scammers/thieves posing as real Monroe County Sheriff’s Office members this week asking for money or making threats about fake arrest warrants and false accusations about missing fake jury duty.

A deputy with the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office was arrested Wednesday for falsifying an off-duty detail time sheet last month.

A Florida Keys deputy was arrested by Florida City police on a misdemeanor battery warrant Friday, according to his employer, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.

The Monroe County Sheriff’s office announced the arrest of 10 men Wednesday that they said were accused of stealing $2.5 million worth of products from multiple marinas throughout South Florida.

Monroe County Sheriff Rick Ramsay spotted a sinking boat as he drove along U.S. 1 Thursday, leading a deputy to rescue five men from the waterlogged vessel, according to a sheriff’s office spokesperson.

A Monroe County Sheriff’s Office deputy was arrested for DUI overnight Saturday after he was found asleep in a private vehicle, authorities said.

A 56-year-old Miami-Dade man was arrested Thursday for leading an extensive fentanyl distribution ring in Monroe County, authorities said.

Deputies arrested six men and one woman, largely from Miami-Dade County, in an “ongoing check fraud investigation” in the Florida Keys, officials announced Thursday.

The Monroe County Sheriff says his department is working to pursue murder charges against drug dealers connected with overdose deaths.

A worker died after falling from a crane in a construction accident in Key Largo Tuesday afternoon, Monroe County Sheriff Rick Ramsay said.

A 23-year-old woman was facing a murder charge on Thursday in the Florida Keys after detectives accused her of selling the fentanyl that caused a 53-year-old woman’s death.

A Key West man is faced a felony charge Wednesday after authorities accused him of trashing a Stock Island street with more than two dozen illegally-dumped mattresses and box springs, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.

Florida Sen. Rick Scott is set to join local officials Thursday in Marathon to discuss the ongoing migrant crisis in the Florida Keys.

Cuban migrants are still arriving by boat in the Florida Keys even as the Biden administration promises a crackdown.

Immigration may be a federal issue, but local taxpayers in the Florida Keys are footing some of the bills amid the onslaught of migrants arriving in the island chain.

At least 500 migrants have landed in the Florida Keys over the last several days in what the local sheriff’s office described on Monday as a “crisis.”

Dry Tortugas National Park will close temporarily, beginning Monday morning.

Skeleton remains found in a wooded area in the Florida Keys earlier this year have finally been identified as those of a man who had been reported missing in 2020, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Thursday.

Monroe County deputies arrested one of their own Friday, after a detective was accused of battering a colleague inside a sheriff’s substation.

A veteran corrections officer in the Florida Keys found himself booked into jail Wednesday, after state troopers accused him of insurance fraud and leaving the scene of a crash.

As detectives continued to investigate the theft of narcotics from the Monroe County Fire Rescue Trauma Star helicopter program, a nurse and a paramedic faced charges, deputies announced Friday.

A former Monroe County Fire Rescue chief flight nurse for the Trauma Star helicopter program has been arrested on accusations that she was stealing narcotics, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office announced Tuesday.

A woman called 911 asking for help for a Transportation Security Administration officer who later died on Wednesday in a gated community in Key Largo.

The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a 39-year-old man who they said fatally shot his girlfriend and then told authorities that she had taken her own life.

Monroe County Sheriff Rick Ramsay wants residents to know that he will never call them to ask them to pay for anything with gift cards. Scammers have been doing that.

A Monroe County Sheriff’s Deputy was arrested by Homestead police Tuesday after what officers said was a domestic incident.

Monroe County Sheriff Rick Ramsay released a statement on Monday morning saying he was disappointed to learn a civilian employee was arrested over the weekend.

Monroe County Sheriff’s Office is concerned and warning residents to be careful when it comes to internet-related scams involving gift cards.

A man is arrested near the Florida Keys for reportedly dumping nearly 900 pounds of trash, everything from bicycles to old water heaters.

According to authorities, 23-year-old Connor Curry and 25-year-old Trevor Pike were taken into custody after getting into a fight with three U.S. Navy sailors.

DNA technology helped detectives to identify William Anechiarico, also known as Ralph, as the suspect of a 1987 rape in the Florida Keys.

A 54-year-old man was arrested Monday in connection with the 2017 murder of a woman in Key Largo, authorities confirmed.

Officials in the Florida Keys advise anyone participating in next week’s two-day lobster mini season to be aware of state and local ordinances.

A detention deputy in Monroe County was fired after it was reported he picked up and slammed a detainee to the ground. The deputy will face criminal charges.

MONROE COUNTY, Fla. – Monroe County Sheriff Rick Ramsay fired a Middle Keys victim advocate Tuesday, immediately after the man was arrested by the Florida Highway Patrol in connection with a road rage case. “This was a serious case that fortunately didn’t end with the loss of life,” Ramsay said in a statement. “My policy is to be transparent about positive incidents as well as negative incidents involving the Sheriff’s Office. Further details about the road rage incident were not released. AdLinhardt said Hustad was hired by the Sheriff’s Office on April 6, 1999.

MONROE COUNTY, Fla. One of two brothers sought in a fatal Florida Keys shooting from last month has been apprehended in Mexico. Jose Luis Espinosa Gomez, 34 of Stock Island, is being held by police in Jurez and will be brought to Monroe County to face charges in the death of Jose Manuel Clemente, the Monroe County Sheriffs Office says. Gomez and his younger brother Mayque Marin Gomez, 31, are accused of killing Clemente, 45, on June 15 in the commercial fishing trap yard on the 5000 block of 5th Avenue known locally as La Curva.Mayque Marin Gomez remains on the loose. Anyone who has any information is asked to contact the Sheriffs Office at 305-289-2351 or, to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-866-471-8477. Marshals Service and the El Paso, Texas Police Department for all their hard work on this case, Monroe County Sheriff Rick Ramsay said in a statement.

MONROE COUNTY, Fla. An investigation into excessive force has led to the firing of a Monroe County Sheriff's Deputy. Deputy Jon Riggs was dismissed Monday from the Monroe County Sheriffs Office after two separate Internal Affairs investigations were launched following complaints received in December. Riggs worked in the lower keys, the Sheriff's Office said. According to authorities, one incident that was investigated involved Riggs inappropriately and unnecessarily using a Taser and pepper spray on an individual in Key West. The other incident involved Riggs becoming out of control, using threats and profanity while interacting with a group of teenagers on Big Pines Key.

MONROE COUNTY, Fla. A man who emailed Monroe Countys sheriff threatening to shoot first ask questions later now finds himself behind bars, the sheriffs office says. Shoot first ask questions later.According to the Monroe County Sheriffs Office, Davis had seven baggies of heroin, several hypodermic needles and two Suboxone strips in his possession when he was arrested. Investigators say Davis will face drug-related charges in Volusia County and charges of making written threats to do bodily injury in Monroe County. Davis has an arrest history in Monroe County dating to 2015, according to the sheriffs office. If you threaten anyone in this community, the Sheriffs Office will find you and we will arrest you.

Three decades later, the Monroe County Sheriffs Office says it has cracked the cold case. The Sheriffs Office says that her killer has been identified as Robert Lynn Bradley, who was himself killed in a homicide in Texas in April 1992 at age 31. The agency says that its major crimes unit detective Vince Weiner partnered with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and used new DNA technology to ID the victim and killer. Bradleys DNA was obtained from the 1991 crime scene in the Keys, the Sheriffs Office says. The Sheriffs Office says Kirkum was seen by witnesses hitchhiking out of Key West on Feb. 14, 1991.

Linhardt said they targeted the victim because her vehicle has Monroe County plates and a hurricane reentry sticker. Linhardt said the teen provided her drivers license to deputies at the checkpoint but didnt alert them about Sardinas because she was scared. Authorities said the teen continued heading south to a gas station at Mike Marker 92, where Sardinas got out of the vehicle. Linhardt said the teen drove the woman to a pharmacy and then called a family member, who then notified authorities. The victim identified Sardinas in a photo lineup as the man who kidnapped her.

On Thursday evening The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office reported that Weisberger was severely injured when he was struck by a moving car near Founders Park at Mile Marker 87. Weisberger fatally stabbed his brother, Pascal Weisberger, 14, and his father, who was identified as Ariel Jacob Poholek, 43, near Mile Marker 87.2. The father had come in to see what was going on when he was also attacked,” said Monroe County Sheriff Rick Ramsay. The teen’s younger brother was pronounced dead at the scene. Earlier in the day as police searched for Weisberger, Ramsay said: "He’s on the run.

GOOGLE STREET VIEWMARATHON, Fla. - A 10-year-old girl brought a steak knife to school Friday in Marathon, and she showed it to other students in the cafeteria saying she planned on using it if an armed attacker entered the school, according to the Monroe Sheriff's Office. Sheriff's Office School Resource Officer Robert Bulnes found the knife in the fifth-grade Stanley Switlik Elementary School student's backpack and released her to the custody of her parents. "I'm grateful this young girl did not threaten anyone and that did not appear to be her intent," Sheriff Rick Ramsay said in a statement. Prosecutors are charging her with possession of a weapon on school grounds. Deputies said the girl did not threaten anyone with the knife.