NR 23-30 Groundbreaking – BCSO Animal Surgery Center

PRESS CONFERENCE Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey will address the media tomorrow, September 1, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. for the groundbreaking of the BCSO Animal Surgery Center. The press conference will be held on the grounds of the Animal Care Center located at 5100 West Eau Gallie Boulevard in Melbourne. For additional information, please call […]
NR 23-28 Silver Alert – Missing /Endangered Adult: LOCATED

UPDATE: Ms. Forman-Ryba has been located and is in the process of being reunited with her family. The Brevard County Sheriff’s Office is attempting to locate a missing/endangered adult, 79-year-old, Irene Forman-Ryba. Ms. Foreman-Ryba was last seen this morning, August 23, 2023, at approximately 7:00 a.m., when she left her residence on Timberlane Drive, Cocoa, […]
NR 23-27 Victim identified in death investigation

The Brevard County Sheriff’s Office is identifying the male who was shot and killed in unincorporated Cocoa, on Friday, August 11, 2023. The decedent is identified as 58-year-old, Franklin Orwig Sr. of Cocoa. The investigation began when deputies responded to a residence on Burgess Avenue at approximately 9:45 p.m., Friday evening, after the Sheriff’s Office […]
NR 23-26 Sheriff’s Office conducting death investigation

The Brevard County Sheriff’s Office is conducting a death investigation that occurred last night at a residence on Burgess Avenue in unincorporated Cocoa. Deputies responded to the area at approximately 9:45 p.m., after the Sheriff’s Office was advised that a male had been shot. Upon arrival, deputies located a male victim who was transported to […]
NR 23-25 Arrest made in Merritt Island homicide

The Brevard County Sheriff’s Office has arrested 34-year-old, Ismael Barrera Sarceno and 30-year-old Douglas Expec Lopez, both of Cocoa for their involvement in the death of 30-year-old, Juan Carlos Perez Alvarez, whose body was discovered in the water last week, on July 24th, at Waterway Park in Merritt Island. Barrera Sarceno was arrested late yesterday evening after an […]
NR 23-24 Arrest made in North Brevard Bank Robbery

The Brevard County Sheriff’s Office has arrested 40-year-old Nicholas Race of Weeki Wachee, Florida, for the robbery of the Space Coast Credit Union located at 6899 North US Highway 1, unincorporated Cocoa, that occurred on Monday, July 24, 2023. Race was arrested earlier today in Hernando County by the United States Marshall’s Fugitive Task Force and […]