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The following story was previously published on Lake Legal News. SORRENTO, Florida— A man is facing several weapons charges after being accused of pointing a gun at a juvenile’s forehead Sunday, according to an arrest affidavit. A juvenile was walking down Orange Street when a Dodge truck turned onto the street. The boy, whose age was not listed in the affidavit, told a Lake County Sheriff’s deputy he moved out of the way so the truck could pass, and the truck pulled up next to him. The driver, later identified as Reyes Trujillo, 25, told the boy to move and

The following story was previously published on Lake Legal News. TAVARES, Florida — A 73-year-old man accused of chasing a man down and hitting him in the face with a tire iron earlier this month was picked up on a warrant for the crime Tuesday night, according to the arrest affidavit. On April 2, James Edward Rogers, of Lady Lake, was helping a woman retrieve her belongings from a home on Tracy Lane in unincorporated Tavares, according to a probable cause affidavit. The victim came to the home to ensure his belongings were not being taken and a fight broke

The following story was previously published on Lake Legal News. SORRENTO, Florida — The Lake County Sheriff’s Office is releasing very limited information on a shooting that occurred following an argument in a liquor store parking lot Sunday afternoon. A pair of brothers got into an argument with another male in the parking lot of Country Discount Liquor, 23825 Sorrento Avenue, also known as State Road 46, and the male shot one of the brothers, LCSO Sgt. Fred Jones told Lake Legal News. LCSO responded to the reported shooting at 4:40 p.m. and the man was transported to AdventHealth Waterman

The following story was previously published on Lake Legal News. POLK COUNTY, Florida — DNA from a discarded cigar helped a nab a man who robbed several graves of remains last month and when Lake County Sheriff’s Office detectives interviewed him, he confessed and snitched on his partner, according to a press release. On Dec. 6, a woman and her daughter were driving northbound down Britt Road when they noticed a disrupted tombstone at Edgewood Cemetery and went into the cemetery and found two other graves vandalized and called LCSO, according to a report. Deputies responded and found four graves had been

The following story was previously published on Lake Legal News. OCALA NATIONAL FOREST, Florida — An Ocala man is being held in the Lake County Jail on two counts of attempted murder and two counts of robbery with a firearm stemming from a 2018 drug deal gone bad. According to a probable cause affidavit, on Sept. 27, 2018, Dexavion J’Neil Brown, who was 18 years old at the time, set up a meeting with a man he met in the juvenile justice system in 2017, to trade methamphetamine for a gun and $300. The pair agreed to meet at the