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SEBRING -- Several of the Highlands County Sheriff’s Office unsolved homicides will be getting a fresh look from four sets of very experienced eyes. Sheriff Paul Blackman announced Friday, April 13 the establishment of the Cold Case Homicide Team made up of four retired law enforcement officials with more than 100 years of combined experience in both investigations and prosecutions. The team will be made up of Howard Godwin, who served four terms as Highlands County Sheriff; Jerry Hill, the

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Local mechanic hit with 203 more felony charges SEBRING -- A local mechanic who was already facing charges for 25 felonies and one misdemeanor now has a whole lot more court time ahead of him after he was charged with 203 more felonies and a pair of misdemeanors Thursday, April 12. Kevin Ray Barber, 39, owner of South Side Auto and Diesel in Sebring and formerly the owner of Kevin’s 4-Wheel Drive in Lake Placid has been in the Highlands County Jail since he was arrested Monday, March 12 and

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AVON PARK -- An Avon Park man wanted for a Polk County armed robbery will also have a lot of Highlands County charges to answer to after his arrest Tuesday, March 27. Deputy Cody Pearlman was on patrol in Avon Park around 9 a.m. on March 27 when he spotted 21-year-old Troyvante Dashonn Bolton at the intersection of South Lake Boulevard and Billy Hill Road. Deputy Pearlman knew Bolton had an active Polk County warrant for a March 15 armed robbery in Auburndale due to an alert from the Auburndale

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SEBRING -- A Sebring man who was arrested on child pornography charges last month is facing 300 more charges in what is being called the largest child pornography case in central Florida history. Christopher Ray Queen, 50, was charged with 300 counts of possession of child pornography on Friday, March 23. He was also charged on Friday with two counts of lewd and lascivious behavior with a victim under age 12, one count of lewd and lascivious behavior with a victim between 12 and 16 years of age

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LAKE PLACID -- A 61-year-old Lake Placid man is in the Highlands County Jail without bond on charges of attempted second-degree murder after a stabbing Saturday night. Deputies were called to the suspect’s home on Sarasota Street south of Lake Placid at 9:40 p.m. on Saturday, March 24, after a 911 call about a disturbance between Carlos Lorenzo Gonzalez and the victim, 31-year-old Martin Martinez Zuniga. When the first deputy arrived, he found Zuniga lying in the yard with a stab wound to his

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