Ex-con turned inspirational speaker devotes life to helping those currently incarcerated
Kimberly Kuizon reports
BRADENTON, Fla. - Behind barbed wire and bars, Victor Woods spends hours each week working with those in the inmate recovery pod. Don t let these people down. Don’t let Sheriff Wells down, he said.
He listens, talks and works to uplift those serving time in jail. When you get out and somebody tells you, ‘No, I don’t want you here, you’ve got a record. I’m not even interested in seeing your application.’ Remember this day, he said.
Over the last several years, Woods has worked with Sheriff Rick Wells to help those behind bars in Manatee County understand they are strong enough to overcome the obstacles they face.
Authorities in Florida are evacuating about 345 inmates from the first floor of a county jail amid concerns over the potential collapse of a local reservoir, according to reports on Sunday.
Manatee sheriff evacuates 345 jail inmates amid potential plant collapse
Sheriff Rick Wells said the jail isnât expecting more than a foot of flooding in the event of a breach at the old Piney Point phosphate mine.
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Bryan Ellis, Jimi DePriest, and Cayla Pearson, activists with the Party for Socialism and Liberation Florida demonstrate outside of the Manatee County emergency operations center on Sunday. [ LUIS SANTANA | Times ]
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PALMETTO â Amid concerns about the potential collapse of the Piney Point reservoir, Manatee County Sheriffâs officials are evacuating about 345 inmates from the county jailâs first floor.
Sheriff Rick Wells said Sunday that moving all the inmates to the second floor, which was the plan county officials originally announced, would be too much of a security risk. Instead, the jail is taking the inmates by bus to a location Wells declined to share Sunday afternoon while they were still being moved.
5-year-old cancer patient made honorary deputy Jeremiah, a 5-year-old cancer patient, gets a look inside the Manatee County Sheriff s Office s armored vehicle Feb. 18. (Source: Manatee County Sheriff s Office) By ABC7 Staff | February 18, 2021 at 12:37 PM EST - Updated February 18 at 12:37 PM
BRADENTON, Fla. (WWSB) - Five-year-old Jeremiah, like a lot of kids, has a fascination with first responders. He says he hopes to become a police officer or deputy one day.
But last year, Jeremiah was diagnosed with neurobalstoma, a cancer that develops from immature nerve cells. So the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office, in cooperation with the Pediatric Cancer Foundation, made him an honorary deputy Thursday.
Brothers accused of murdering a 16-year-old, mistakenly thought she was pregnant
Amber Woods was found dead in Manatee County back in 2006. Arrests have now been made in connection with her case. Author: Jenna Bourne (WTSP), Claire Farrow Published: 8:24 AM EST December 21, 2020 Updated: 6:24 PM EST December 21, 2020
BRADENTON, Fla. More than 14 years after a teen girl was found shot to death on the side of the road, the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office now says three brothers are to blame.
Amber Woods, 16, was found dead in February 2006 along State Road 62 in Manatee County, near the Hardee County line.
Investigators said she was last seen alive by her aunt at their home in Hardee County after midnight on Feb. 11. Her body was found later that morning by a person driving by.