Tampa, Florida– Police at the University of South Florida say a suspected peeping tom caught peering into windows at the Kappa Delta Sorority on campus is actually an absconded sexual predator wanted out of Illinois.

Officers say they spotted the man around 3:00am on May 6th creeping around in the dark, crouched down next to a window outside the sorority house off Maple Drive.  When questioned, he told officers he was there to visit a friend, but could not provide the friend’s entire name and did not have any identification.

University Police say they later used finger prints to determine the man provided a false name and was actually 27-year old Jeremy Cary of Peoria, Illinois.  State records show in 2010 Cary was convicted of aggravated sexual abuse involving a 13-year old victim.   Records also indicate he failed to properly register as a sex offender and was listed as “location unknown” in the state’s database.

It’s unknown how or why he ended up in Florida, but he remains in custody at Hillsborough County’s Orient Road Jail on hold for the Marshal’s Office.  He will likely be transported back to Illinois to face charges.

Students at USF say while they normally feel very safe on campus, the incident makes them reconsider their surroundings.

“Just knowing that, is going to make me personally a little more aware where I am and who’s around me,” said USF junior Tess Chase.

USF placed fliers up around campus to inform students of the incident in case anyone saw or came into contact with Cary while he was on campus.

Beau Zimmer, 10 News

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Dunedin, Florida – The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office says Tina Marie Foster, who was going to turn 40 on Friday, took her own life after shooting her 10-year-old daughter, Kassidie McMillin.

Foster may have been distraught over her finances. According to reports from the sheriff’s office, she was arrested back in January and was due in court on May 23 over charges that she embezzled a little more than $27,000 while she worked as an officer manager at Temperature Services Incorporated, which is an air conditioning company.

Glen Tishuk filed the fraud reports and told detectives that illegal electronic bank to credit card transactions took place from December of 2008 until August of 2010. Tishuk a

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Polk County, FL –  Right now, deputies are on the scene of a shooting in Fort Meade.

According to authorities, several hundred people were gathered in the area of French Avenue between 6th and 7th Street at the ballfields around 8:30 p.m. A fight broke out and witnesses tell authorities that shots were fired. When Deputies arrived on-scene, they found one adult male victim who had been shot.

He was transported to Bartow Regional Medical Center in critical condition.

The investigations as deputies are still on-scene interviewing witnesses. 

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The victim of a deadly shooting Friday night on the 300 block of South Gayoso Street has been identified as 24-year-old Jorge Cervantes of New Orleans.

Residents in the area said they heard a gunshot at around 9 p.m., but did not see Cervantes inside a Mercury Mystique until around 10:30 p.m., Officer Hilal Williams said in a statement.

First District officers responded to calls about the shooting and found Cervantes with a gunshot wound to the neck. Emergency medical technicians arrived and pronounced him dead, Hilal said.

Investigators are searching for more information. Homicide Detective Elizabeth Garcia is in charge of the investigation and can be reached at 504.658.5300.

Anyone with information can call Crimestoppers at 504.822.1111.

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The New Orleans police commander who until last week ran the city’s controversial red-light camera detail ignored police regulations and apparently tried to conceal his lead role in the operation, according to a draft report of an internal inspection of NOPD’s 8th District, obtained by the Times-Picayune.

New Orleans Police Commander Edwin Hosli

The report also suggests a concerted effort to downgrade serious crimes in Police Commander Edwin Hosli’s 8th District, which patrols the French Quarter, the beating heart of New Orleans’ tourism industry. Read all post…

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