In a news conference Wednesday, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd detailed the abuse 4-year-old Bryan Boyer allegedly suffered at the hands of his mother. Patricia Saintizaire, 36, who immigrated ...

A 16-year-old girl reported that a man repeatedly touched her on her buttocks at a Chick-fil-A in Lakeland. The suspect is 57-year-old Awny Abdel Malek Basta, of Lakeland. Basta has an extensive ...

When she turned around to see what was touching her, she saw that it was Basta's hand. "This is an evil, nasty, scary, ugly man…and he's dangerous," said Sheriff Grady Judd. Surveillance video inside ...