Finally some closure after a tragic crash. Polk deputies say theyve arrested the driver who took off. After hitting and killing a woman in lake wales and badly injuring a deputy. Charlie lewis will appear in court this afternoon. Sheriff grady judd says the 71yearold confessed to deputies he had been drinking at a party before the crash. Now judd says it could put him in jail for the rest of his life. Saturday mornings crash killed 33yearold jessica enchauteguiotero. Sheriffs Deputy Adam Pennell was severely injured. Jessica flagged down the deputy after crashing her car on state road 60. Thats when Officials Say lewis drove his blue ford f150 into them and kept going. An anonymous crimestoppers tip led them to lewis truck. He was arrested yesterday afternoon on his street. Just minutes from lewis will appear before a judge at 1 this afternoon. Police arrested a woman in saint pete for the death of her child. Who disappeared nearly 5 years ago from their home in bendale, West Virginia.
Eve. You know, it actually is a really comfortable morning, a few spots are cooler, 58 in zephyrhills but most of us are in the 60s, 63 in lakeland, sarasota is at 69 degrees. A few high, thin clouds beginning to stream in but i dont think theyll produce any rainfall. Todays highs is going to be above average, average is 80, i expect 84, during the evening temperatures will fallk ill have an 8day temperature trend and we do trend a little cooler. A pretty good drive overall a couple little problem spots out there. Look at this this is 275, looks absolutely wonderful. Lets take a look at venice now southern Sarasota County area and we still have this collision venice east boulevard at indian hills boulevard. Its off to the shoulder, a little bit of construction here northbound bradenton weve got a crash 38th avenue east at 15th street so be on the look out for that. Thats a look at weather and traffic. Breaking news this morning the death of former u. S. Attorney general janet reno she
Temperatures like yesterday and the day before that, well get right back up to the mid 80s. Vans . Vanessa and on the roads, no big complaint still. Were clear on the roads. We have one notable construction closure to mention. Its not a full blockage so thats good news and its along the veterans expressway. Southbound direction, you see a speed marker at waters. In the area of waters, two left caution in the area but you can see no big delays to be expected hitting this way. Laura janet reno, first woman to serve as u. S. Attorney general and figure at the center of several political fire storms during the Clinton Administration has died. Russell this morning, her goddaughter broke the news saying she suffered from complications from parkinsons disease. Janet reno went to harvard law school, became a prominent prosecutor before rising to she served nearly eight years. Reno figured into some of the administrations biggest scandals. One is the deadly raid on the complex in waco, texas. I
Minutes. All right dave. Well touch on some bigger slow down right now on roadways about to be 8 01. We will start off look along i4. You can see this were following in area of park road. This is westbound. Right lane unfortunately is still blocked here. Now we do so solid delays basically from park back to county line road. If youre watching in last traffic report we are also mentioned a separate slow spot along westbound i4. It was essentially between the mcintosh road area back towards the homosaa. That good good news is clear. We want to get to lithia pine cess delays really bad here crash reported a stearns. Going to be a little bit south of intersection with bloomingdale. Northbound delays reported all way back to fishhawke. Is very jammed up in the area. For those folks who can benefit, from using those are folks around aaron dale area take that instead of lithia pine cess otherwise bell shoals will be a we still have skyfox checking out motorcyclist involved in crash westbound
Discovered an extensive marijuana grow operation. According to the Pinellas County sheriff, 26yearold williams created Armed Robbery d kidnapping last year. And Pinellas Park pd went after him for strangulation last month. He was charged for possessing cocaine riana and luding prescription pain pills. They have been after him for several weeks now. Detees use Video Surveillance before they move in for the arrest today. He tried crawling out detectives spotted williams and ordered had i am to raise his hands but he raised a. 9 millimeter handgun instead. He was pulling it out of his waistband and ready to come like this. When he was in that motion is when detective kramer fired. Thank god he did. Otherwise we could be in a disastrous situation here and have a seriously injured or dead Law Enforcement officer because this guy was hell bent he didnt want to go back to jail. Our cameras rolling when Law Enforcement arrested williams fugitive. The suspects handgun stolen from a previous are