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A Cape Coral man has been arrested and is accused of drawing a swastika on a sign for U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds, WINK News reports. Reports say the sign was a reserved parking sign outside the Lee County Tax Collector's office in Cape Coral and was marked on Election Day.
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A task force that included Cape Coral police arrested Dominic Octavious Cichini in Lehigh Acres in connection with the Oct. 22 road rage shooting in the 800 block of Santa Barbara Boulevard that left two people hurt. He is charged with three counts of attempted second-degree murder with a firearm and one count of possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
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Two people riding in the same vehicle were hurt, neither seriously, when someone fired at them during a road rage confrontation on Santa Barbara Boulevard in Cape Coral on Oct. 22. Police said the shooter was still at large and asked anyone who saw it to call the Cape Coral Police Department at 239-574-3223.
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Lee County Judge Bruce Kyle on Oct. 19 granted a new trial to Anastasiya Zadorozhna, whom a jury convicted in August of vehicular homicide in a July 2024 crash on Pine Island Road that killed a 52-year-old man. Her attorney argued that the prosecution's only eyewitness, a co-defendant, misled jurors about his own plea deal. A status hearing is set for Oct. 29; no date has been set for the new trial.
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Cape Coral police say two registered sex offenders living at a halfway house on Northwest First Place were arrested Oct. 12 and charged with violating probation by having internet-capable phones. The investigation began after a fellow resident reported that one of the men was viewing child sexual abuse material; detectives seized several devices and say more charges may follow. The men, identified by police as William Plumley, 29, and Enrico Mendes Jr., 49, are due in court Nov. 9.
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