Lauren Sweeney

A man filing an appeal for a 2009 DUI conviction, says a motion containing his social security number and medical records was visible to the public for years. “It’s basically a criminal’s dream, they don’t have to worry about skimmers. They just go to Lee Clerk and get all the information they need,” said Mark […]

For people who want to avoid a DUI, are portable breathalyzers accurate enough to use when deciding if you can drive? WINK News puts them to the test. Testing for accuracy WINK News looked online and purchased three different portable breathalyzers for $50 or less. The BACtrack Go Keychain Breathalyzer, the JASTEK model JS0048 and […]

The father of a man killed outside a south Fort Myers townhouse in 2016 has paid for a billboard to criticize the decision not to file charges in his son’s case. The four line message that cycles through a digital billboard just over the Edison Bridge on Business U.S. 41 in North Fort Myers, ends […]

The prospect of a new hotel in downtown Fort Myers was exciting for many residents to hear back in 2014. But four years later, no bricks have been laid, and the project is still in the works, held up over language in the original deed for the land to the City. That deed, from 1936, […]

June should have marked a year for Hope Daley and Matthew Dykes in their Golden Gate home. Instead, they visit a dirt lot where the house once stood on a daily basis: checking mail and feeding stray cats that they inherited when they purchased the house in 2017. The only thing left standing on the […]

Protests over a perceived lack of action by the Lee County Sheriff’s Office and State Attorney Stephen Russel’s office have erupted since the release of secret video shot on four Buckingham area properties. The videos were taken by the Animal Recovery Mission, known as ARM, a Miami-based nonprofit animal rights organization. ARM first released video […]

Two additional arrests in relation to undercover video of alleged animal abuse are expected by the end of the week, WINK News has learned. So far, the Okeechobee County sheriff arrested four workers at dairy farms caught on video shot by the group Animal Recovery Mission, known as ARM. Sheriff Noel Stephen said more arrests […]

In the days after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, classmates recounted memories of Nikolas Cruz. One told a reporter he sensed Cruz would do something crazy one day. Another said she could tell there was something not right about him. Cruz had a history of mental health treatment, and the conversation about […]

When Island Park Road in south Fort Myers was impassable for days on end during late August torrential rains and then again after Hurricane Irma, many were surprised by the level of flooding. At least one hundred homeowners reported damage to their homes by floodwater, according to an engineering report commissioned by Lee County. The […]

It’s been over a decade since the man who was last seen with Mary Mount led investigators to the shallow grave where he had left her body near Sierra Blanca, Texas. The desolate area near the Mexico border is the last place Dottie Knapp thought her daughter would end up. Knapp said she misses her […]