Dannielle Garcia

Some parents in Southwest Florida are considering keeping their kids home from school after a local fifth-grader was arrested for a school shooting threat. The 10-year-old boy is in juvenile detention. The sheriff makes no bones about it. He says the child threatened a mass shooting at his school; Patriot Elementary School in Cape Coral. […]

WINK News is learning more about the arrest of a 10-year-old boy accused of making a threat against a Cape Coral elementary school. It comes days after 19 children and two teachers were killed at a Texas elementary school. The child who was arrested is the same age as those victims. WINK News was able […]

A man has been arrested after being accused of climbing onto the roof of a restaurant, yelling, and making threats Thursday morning. The Lee County Sheriff’s Office said, the man was wearing only underwear and threw pieces of concrete off the roof of La Mexicana restaurant, located at 1441 Ortiz Avenue, toward bystanders and deputies […]

Video of students rushing out of school. Parents crying out for their children. And law enforcement officers with their guns drawn. The images and stories from the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, are difficult to watch and hear for students and teachers across the country. A look at school shootings in the last 10 years […]

A man is accused of posing as a pool company owner and taking thousands of dollars from people after telling them he would build them a pool without having the proper license. Angel Santana is now facing several charges, including fraud. He has been released on bond. WINK News spoke to a victim who is […]

A low-flying plane rattles people in one Southwest Florida neighborhood. It turns out that the plane belongs to Lee County Mosquito Control and was doing pest control testing. When Wilberson Vilsaint shot the video of the plane flying low, he said he worried that the plane was flying too close to the ground. “Just a […]

There is an initiative in a Collier County community to ban large boats to save dolphins. It’s hard not to smile when you see a dolphin, and people who spend a lot of time on the water see a lot of them here in Southwest Florida. They are playful and love to chase the wakes. […]

An organization wants to bring a new war memorial to Punta Gorda with an Iraq and Afghanistan war memorial. Veterans Park bears a lot of meaning to the people in Punta Gorda, the people who went to war, and the families of those who died. The park could soon be home to a memorial for […]

Protesting in front of homes will soon be banned in Florida. Governor Ron DeSantis signed the bill into law to end it. This comes as people swarm outside the homes of some Supreme Court justices because of the potential overturning of Roe v. Wade. Governor DeSantis says, “Sending unruly mobs to a private residence is […]

A Cape Coral man will serve up to 12 years in prison for beating his mother to death in 2020 after entering a plea of no contest to charges against him Tuesday. Michael Tortolani, 28, did not contest charges of manslaughter, battery and drug possession, and faces 12 years in prison for manslaughter with credit […]