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    MARION COUNTY, Fla. (WESH) — Two members of the Marion County Sheriff’s Office are accused of detaining one of their own and violating his rights against warrantless searches and seizures.

“Illegal arrest, illegal detention, illegal search, illegal everything. Literally the whole case is totally illegal,” Attorney Anthony Sabatini said of an incident involving his client, Jeremiah Ricketts, a deputy with the Marion County Sheriff’s Office.

According to an arrest report from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office, Ricketts’ wife is also a Marion County deputy, and in December 2025, she requested law enforcement retrieve her patrol car and equipment she left inside of it from their home in Grand Island because of their “current domestic situation.”

The report says she told deputies the items that should have been inside included a rifle, a pistol, a duty belt, and more.

According to administrative review documents from the Marion County Sheriff’s Office, Lt. Benjamen Adams and Sgt. Jeffrey Boyles picked up the patrol car, but didn’t find the equipment inside.

The review documents say they went back to the home and confronted Ricketts, who the arrest reports claim was “currently on suspension”. But disciplinary documents for Ricketts shared by the Sheriff’s Office only seem to show an eight-hour suspension from 2024.

“You can use that keypad, go get the gear, show us where it is. We are collecting the gear,” one of the members of the sheriff’s office can be heard saying in body camera video of the encounter.

The exchange goes on, and Ricketts is told he’s being detained.

“You have authority to detain in Lake County?” Ricketts asks.

“Yes, I do,” a member of the sheriff’s office said.

Ricketts was ultimately put in handcuffs.

Though it’s redacted from the body camera video released by the sheriff’s office, administrative review documents said Ricketts handcuffs were removed and he, Boyles and Adams went into the home, but didn’t find the equipment and says after Adams “becomes accusatory” and asks what he did with the equipment, Ricketts asked them to leave his house saying he does not consent to any of this.

From there, it says Ricketts was handcuffed again, and the Lake County Sheriff’s Office was called out. Their arrest report says ultimately some of the missing items were found inside the home, and that Ricketts was being charged with armed burglary, grand theft of police equipment, and grand theft of a firearm.

Sabatini represented Ricketts in that case, which ultimately wouldn’t go forward. The State Attorney’s Office filed an announcement of no information on the grounds that the evidence was legally insufficient to prove guilt.

“I was thrown out because it was a completely illegal behavior by the police,” Sabatini said.

In an interview with Boyles included in the administrative review documents, Boyles said he believed the Florida statute related to “Fresh Pursuit” gave them the authority to detain Ricketts, as did Adams in his own interview.

Adams also said he believed that he did not coerce Ricketts.

Documents from the sheriff’s office say Boyles and Adams were found to violate warrantless searches and seizures, dereliction of duty, and use of discretion by supervisors.

Documents shared by the sheriff’s office say Adams was demoted to sergeant and suspended for 30 days. Boyles was demoted to corporal and suspended for 20 days. The sheriff’s office said they have appealed those findings.

WESH 2 asked Sabatini about his client’s current status with the department. He said he is on administrative leave. The Sheriff’s Office has not confirmed Ricketts current status with the department.

Sabatini said he plans to file a civil lawsuit against the Marion County Sheriff’s Office.

“Unlawful detention, unlawful arrest, the were no jurisdiction. There was no basis for what they did; they violated his rights to be free of unreasonable searches and seizures, they came into his house illegally, so there was a lot going on there was a lot of different constitutional violations in this case,” Sabatini said.

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By Alexandra Igoe

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    GULF COUNTY, Fla. (WBBH) — Sea turtles in St. Joseph Bay were rescued by the Fish and Wildlife Research Institute after becoming cold-stunned due to dropping water temperatures below 50°F.

Members of the Sea Turtle Stranding Team from the Fish and Wildlife Research Institute responded to the call to rescue the cold-stunned sea turtles.

The turtles were removed from the water and taken in to be evaluated and warmed.

If you see injured, distressed or dead sea turtles, report it.

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    SMITH TOWNSHIP, Pa. (WTAE) — Four people were taken to the hospital after a reported explosion at a metal fabricating plant Thursday night, Washington County emergency dispatchers said.

A hazardous materials team was called to the Langeloth Metallurgical Company facility on Langeloth Road in Smith Township.

“Apparently, they were transferring some kind of chemical from a tanker to a stationary tank, and something went wrong and something exploded,” Smith Township Fire Chief Brandon Kriznik said.

The incident was reported at about 6:15 p.m.

Washington County officials issued a shelter-in-place notice for the Langeloth neighborhood because of concerns about a potential release of hydrogen peroxide into the air. That notice has since been lifted.

“Everything’s good. There was nothing released that can harm anybody, and everybody can rest tonight knowing that everything’s good here,” Kriznik said.

Washington County Emergency Management has notified the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, which emergency management officials said is standard procedure in a chemical incident.

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    WICHITA, Kan. (KAKE) — Kiah Duggins was just 30 years-old when she died in the crash of Flight 5342. At such a young age, she was already so accomplished. Setting goals for herself as young as 10 years-old. Her mom describes her daughter as inquisitive and compassionate, standing up for the underdog all throughout her life.

“My faith in God. That is what got me through,” said her mom, Gwen Duggins. “I’m so grateful that I got to birth such an amazing human like Kiah and that’s what really gets me through.”

Gwen Duggins relies on her faith. In a year filled with grief. As she remembers her firstborn, Kiah. A daughter who lived a lifetime of adventure in her short 30 years.

“She was my child, but she was a remarkable human being and an incredible role model for young women to pursue your dreams and to never limit yourself in what you can do,” said Gwen. “And I think that’s a story every young woman needs to hear.”

Curious, smart and caring. Kiah started young. In first grade, she came home with her first idea.

“When she was young, she came home from school one day and was like, ‘Mom, I want to write a petition,’” said Gwen. “She was in first grade, and I was like, ‘a petition for what?’ And she’s like, ‘Well, you know, I’ve just noticed that the letter c is really not needed in the alphabet. It just copies k and s, and so we really could have a 25-letter alphabet.’”

By age 10, she had already set goals.

“She came to my husband and I and opened a notebook, ‘Mom and Dad, here are my five and 10-year goals,’ and she was 10 years-old,” said Gwen.

Kiah achieved things in her life that most could only dream of. An accomplished ballet dancer. She graduated from East High School’s International Baccalaureate Program, at the top of her class, Summa Cum Laude from Wichita State with several degrees.

“I think in college is where she found her voice in advocating for others, and decided that in order to change the system, you have to know the system from the inside out,” said Gwen. “And so she decided to become an attorney for that very reason.”

One of the highlights of her life was interning with her idol, former First Lady Michelle Obama, in the White House for five months, helping with the ‘Let Girls Learn Initiative’.

Then shortly after college, Kiah became a Fulbright Scholar, moving 8,000 miles from home to a tiny town in Taiwan where she taught English to elementary students for a year.

“It was very hard for me having her 8,000 miles away,” said Gwen. “But she insisted, and she loved it, and I got to take my first international trip because we went to visit her when she lived in Taiwan, and she says it was the best experience of her entire life.”

Kiah then turned to law school, graduating from Harvard.

“Kiah had very lofty goals, and one of the reasons she wanted to go to Harvard is she felt like, as a woman of color, people don’t really listen to you,” she said. “ And she said, ‘Mom, maybe if I have Harvard behind my name, it’ll give me a little bit of clout, and maybe people will listen.’”

In January of 2025, doctors diagnosed Gwen with breast cancer for the second time. Kiah insisted on coming home from D.C., where she was a civil rights attorney, for her mom’s surgery.

“A friend of ours knew that Kiah had come home for my surgery, and she was watching CNN, and she saw the news of the crash,” said Gwen. “So she called my husband and asked if Kiah was still in Wichita. And we were like, ‘No, she left a couple of hours ago. And so once we knew the flight number, we knew that Kiah was on that flight.”

And that was it. The beautiful, brilliant and bright light of her daughter was gone. Along with 66 other lives on flight 5342 and the army helicopter it collided with.

“So I, you know, wailed and cried and then at about 4:00 that morning, I had intense chest pain and called my surgeon,” said Gwen. “I ended up having to go back into the hospital to remove hematomas and blood clots that had formed from me grieving.”

Kiah’s body would be one of the last recovered. More waiting, more anguish. Now, the Duggins try to move on without her.

“I love talking about her and who she was, because I believe that it’s important for young people to understand that even somebody from Wichita, Kansas who went to Wichita Public Schools can really make an impact on the world,” said Gwen. “And that’s the thing that we have seen the most since she passed. Her impact and her reach was incredible and far more incredible than we even knew.”

While in college, Kiah started her dream of starting a nonprofit for underrepresented girls, a college readiness program she named The Princess Project.

“She named it that because, when she was young, someone told her that princesses were not brown, and so she understood that with her gifts and the privilege that she had been given, that she could be that metaphorical princess for a lot of girls and help them to see that they could reach their goals and their full potential,” said Gwen.

Since her death, her family has renamed it Kiah’s Princess Project. They hope to start working with girls starting in the fall. One more way Kiah’s legacy will live on.

“What makes me really sad is the world lost some amazing humans,” said Gwen. “And you know, the world doesn’t get to experience their light and their gift and their genius, and that’s really hard. You know, as I read about other families, I wept, amazing human beings on that flight with my daughter. So it’s not even just losing my daughter, but the collective loss is incredible.”

After Kiah’s death, Barack and Michelle Obama sent a letter to Kiah’s parents sharing their grief and what an incredible person she was.

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    SPRINGERVILLE, Arizona (KNXV) — Authorities are seeking information after multiple horses were found dead from apparent gunshot wounds in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest.

Forest officials say nine horses were found recently on the Black Mesa Ranger District.

The horses appeared to have received bullet wounds, indicating they were shot.

Officials say necropsies were completed and the carcasses were buried.

The USDA Forest Service is urging anyone with information to contact the Navajo County Sheriff’s Office tipline at 928-524-9908.

A $5,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible.

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