Police teach gun safety to kids in Fort Myers after deadly child shooting
Published: May 4, 2021 10:15 PM EDT
Updated: May 4, 2021 10:42 PM EDT
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Fort Myers Police Department held a gun safety event for children at S.T.A.R.S Complex Tuesday. This comes after a child accidentally shot another child in the city recently, who later died.
It’s this tragedy the Fort Myers police say made them want to educate local children about gun safety.
“The curiosity of some of the kids can get them into situations where, you know, it’s dangerous,” said Officer Keron Ramjattan with FMPD’s community relations unit. “So we’re just here to promote the safety and show them how to respond when they run into those circumstances.”
Appendix A states that the Freeh Group was informed that multiple individuals reported that a supervisor and two officers leaked information to the city s primary heroin and cocaine suppliers. Those suppliers had been unsuccessfully targeted by the department and other agencies for more than a decade.
Since 2001, investigators were repeatedly informed that officers warned the drug dealers before they executed search warrants, the report states.
In a redacted portion of the appendix, it alludes to a potential witness being murdered. Investigators in the department, outside agencies and community members were unwilling to give information to the Investigations Bureau. Some in fear that investigators would be compromised and witnesses killed.
FMPD shares Freeh report details related to drug, murder investigations
Published: May 3, 2021 5:47 PM EDT
Updated: May 3, 2021 7:45 PM EDT
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Details in the document show FGIS was informed of allegations that an FMPD supervisor and two other officers had leaked information to primary cocaine and heroin dealers in the city. FGIS claimed those suppliers have been unsuccessfully targeted by the department and other agencies for a decade.
The document also alleges that since 2001, investigators have been repeatedly told by multiple sources officers have provided warnings to drug dealers prior to execution of search warrants.
Shortly after the audit, the department put four officers on administrative leave. Three retired amid the leave while the FBI investigated.
18-year-old arrested in connection to drive-by shooting near Fort Myers apartments
Published: April 15, 2021 10:19 PM EDT
Updated: April 15, 2021 11:13 PM EDT
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Two separate scenes are both connected to a drive-by shooting with injuries near Jones Walker Apartments in Fort Myers Thursday.
A man was seen being put in handcuffs in the Suncoast Estates community of North Fort Myers, and law enforcement had guns drawn on another man on Business 41 in North Fort Myers as well.
Fort Myers Police Department confirmed suspect Jarret Lane Nowling, 18, was the man arrested during a traffic stop on BUS 41. He is now in custody at Lee County Jail and faces charges for aggravated battery (causing bodily harm or disability) and aggravated assault (with a deadly weapon without intent to kill).
Fort Myers Police Chief Derrick Diggs, backed by consultants, told the city council that several categories of crime have dropped dramatically in the past five years, the product of studying and responding to trends as they develop in the community.
New strategies, include paying more attention to statistics that identify where crimes are likely to happen, have been in use, the city police say, as the rate of violent crime in the city of Fort Myers dropped by 51% over the past six years. A 50% drop in crime tells me we are concentrating on the right things it says to me, the city is safe Diggs said at a news conference after the city council workshop. We have to do better because we can only drop crime so