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Erhan John Er of Sarasota was sentenced Thursday to 52 months in federal prison on international firearms trafficking conspiracy charges after he bought firearms from dealers in Naples and Sarasota to be smuggled into Canada.

Yaquelin Dominguez-Nieves, 26, who had been living in Sebring, Florida, was sentenced in Miami federal court, according to court records.

Between last October and May, Customs and Border Protection officials have found and detained about 1,000 Cubans arriving in Florida.

Authorities have found a total of five bodies, leaving 34 missing. The Coast Guard says it will call off its active search for survivors at sunset Thursday if it doesn't receive any new information.

The United States Coast Guard seized cocaine with an estimated street value of around $500 million during a series of interdictions in international...

A man with a python hidden inside an external hard drive was stopped from boarding a Florida plane headed to Barbados.

Authorities said a Florida woman they arrested for allegedly smuggling contraband into a state prison managed to distribute a highly potent synthetic...