Steven Joseph Nickles
A Poinciana woman accused of drowning her 14-year-old daughter in a bathtub in 2024 has been found competent to stand trial.
Kelsey Glover, 35, is charged with first-degree murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in the death of her daughter, Giselle Glover. A misdemeanor battery charge previously filed in the case has been dropped.
Circuit Judge Hal C. Epperson Jr. found Glover competent to proceed during a May 29 competency status hearing, according to court records. Competency in a criminal case determines whether defendants have sufficient ability to understand the proceedings and assist in their defense.
The order states both prosecutors and the defense stipulated to an evaluation by a mental health professional. Based on that report, the court found Glover competent and set the case for pretrial on Aug. 18.
Last year Glover was found incompetent for trial and remanded for treatment at a state hospital. At an April 9, 2025, competency hearing, Dr. Katherine Oses and Dr. Leonard Skinzynski testified that Glover was mentally unfit to stand trial. The doctors diagnosed her with bipolar disorder with psychotic features, and Judge John Beamer ordered her committed for treatment, setting a later hearing to review her competency status.
According to Glover’s arrest report, Osceola County Sheriff’s deputies responded Nov. 20, 2024, to a home on Cambourne Drive after receiving information that a child had died there. Deputies made forced entry and found Glover inside the home. The teen-aged victim was found unresponsive in a bathroom and life-saving measures were performed before she was taken to Poinciana Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead, said the report.
A live-in companion who helped care for Glover’s children told detectives Glover had taken the teen off insulin medication two days earlier. The girl, who had type 1 diabetes and used an electronic pump, became sick, was vomiting and eventually became bedridden, according to the report.
The companion told detectives she argued with Glover about the girl’s medical condition and tried to help bathe her. During that time, the report alleges Glover submerged the teen’s head under water. The companion was able to pull the girl from the water and tried to perform life-saving measures, according to the report.
When the companion tried to call 911, Glover allegedly grabbed a hammer and chased her into another bathroom, where the companion barricaded herself and called for help. Deputies later observed damage to the door consistent with it being struck by a hammer.
The medical examiner’s office conducted an autopsy which listed the girl’s cause of death as drowning and the manner of death as homicide, according to the warrant affidavit.
Kissimmee man charged with possession of CSAM, bestiality images
The Osceola County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a Kissimmee man they say was in possession of child phonography.
Steven Joseph Nickles. 50, was arrested Thursday morning and charged with 16 counts of possession of child pornography, 14 counts of possession of images/videos of animal sex acts and one count of unlawful use of a two-way communication device.
According to police, the department’s Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) unit began an investigation after OCSO was notified by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) of an individual possessing child sexual abuse material.
Thursday morning, ICAC detectives served a residential search warrant at a residence in the Whispering Oaks neighborhood of Kissimmee. Detectives located evidence of Nickles possessing files of child sexual abuse material and files of bestiality. Based on the evidence, police say he was Nickles was arrested and booked into the Osceola County Jail with zero bond ahead of an initial court appearance.
Police did say they have yet to find evidence that the suspect has met any minors in person.
Kissimmee man gets federal sentence in COVID fraud case
A Kissimmee man has been sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for his role in a COVID relief fund scheme.
As part of the sentence, Levelle Joseph Harris, is required to forfeit $640,911.85 to the United States, which represents the total amount of proceeds obtained by Harris from his scheme.
Harris pleaded guilty on July 30, 2025.
According to court records from the Middle District of Florida, in 2020 Harris fraudulently obtained nearly $1.3 million in COVID relief funds. Per the court, he used some of the funds to purchase a residential property. Harris was prosecuted for that conduct and ultimately convicted of 14 counts of wire fraud. When the United States sought the forfeiture of the residential property Harris had purchased with the stolen COVID relief funds, Harris sold the property and gave the proceeds to the United States.
However, investigators determined that Harris devised a separate scheme to avoid paying his criminal forfeiture by obtaining a mortgage through false representations, then used the proceeds to purchase the residential property and pay his criminal forfeiture. Through Harris’s mortgage fraud scheme, he fraudulently obtained the $640,911.85.
Correctional employee from St. Cloud sentenced in jail bribery scheme
Karen Torres, 50, of St. Cloud has been sentenced by a United States District Judge to one year and one day in federal prison for receiving a bribe as a public official. As part of her sentence, Torres is required to forfeit $43,550, which represents the proceeds of her criminal offense. She pleaded guilty on February 4, 2026.
According to court records, Torres was employed as a correctional officer at the Coleman Federal Correctional Complex in Sumter County. Between May 2022 and March 32025, Torres introduced contraband (marijuana, cigarettes, and K2) into the facility in exchange for tens of thousands in bribes from inmates.
