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Browse Florida Crimes

Browse published Florida criminal offenses by name and quickly access statutes, elements, definitions, and related reference information.

Affrays and Riots

Florida Statute § 870.01

Mutual public fighting, participating in a riot or aggravated riot, or inciting or aggravatedly inciting a riot.

VariesVaries

Aggravated Animal Cruelty

Florida Statute § 828.12

An intentional act, or qualifying failure to act by a person with custody or control, resulting in cruel death or excessive or repeated unnecessary pain or suffering.

FelonyThird Degree

Aggravated Assault

Florida Statute § 784.021

An assault committed with a deadly weapon without intent to kill, or with intent to commit a felony.

FelonyThird Degree

Aggravated Battery

Florida Statute § 784.045

A battery committed under aggravating circumstances recognized by Florida law.

FelonySecond Degree

Altered or Removed Firearm Serial Number

Florida Statute § 790.27

Altering or removing a firearm serial number with intent to disguise identity, or knowingly possessing, selling, or delivering a firearm whose serial number was unlawfully altered or removed.

Felony or MisdemeanorVaries

Animal Cruelty

Florida Statute § 828.12

Unnecessarily overloading, overdriving, tormenting, depriving of necessary sustenance or shelter, mutilating, killing, or cruelly carrying an animal.

MisdemeanorFirst Degree

Animal Fighting or Baiting

Florida Statute § 828.122

Knowingly engaging in one of the prohibited activities involving animal fighting or baiting, including training, promoting, wagering, or attending.

FelonyThird Degree

Animal Neglect and Abandonment

Florida Statute § 828.13

Confining an animal without required food, water, exercise, or air; or abandoning an animal under the statutory circumstances.

VariesVaries

Approaching First Responder After Warning

Florida Statute § 843.31

Knowingly and willfully approaching or remaining within 25 feet of a first responder after a verbal warning, with specified improper intent.

MisdemeanorSecond Degree

Assault

Florida Statute § 784.011

An intentional unlawful threat by word or act to do violence to another person under circumstances creating a well-founded fear that the violence is imminent.

MisdemeanorSecond Degree

Assault or Battery on Law Enforcement or Protected Personnel

Florida Statute § 784.07

Assault, battery, aggravated assault, or aggravated battery against law enforcement or another specified protected person engaged in official duties.

VariesVaries

Battery

Florida Statute § 784.03

Intentional touching or striking of another person against their will, or intentionally causing bodily harm.

MisdemeanorFirst Degree

Battery by Strangulation

Florida Statute § 784.031

Knowingly and intentionally impeding another person's normal breathing or blood circulation against that person's will in a manner creating a risk of, or causing, great bodily harm.

FelonyThird Degree

Burglary

Florida Statute § 810.02

Entering or remaining in a dwelling, structure, or conveyance with the intent to commit an offense under circumstances defined by Florida law.

FelonyVaries

Carjacking

Florida Statute § 812.133

Taking a motor vehicle from another person's person or custody through force, violence, assault, or putting in fear.

FelonyFirst Degree

Carrying a Concealed Weapon or Firearm

Florida Statute § 790.01

Carrying a concealed weapon, electric weapon or device, or firearm when the statutory authorization criteria are not met.

Felony or MisdemeanorVaries

Child Abuse and Neglect

Florida Statute § 827.03

Child abuse, aggravated child abuse, or child neglect under the statutory definitions and resulting-harm circumstances.

VariesVaries

Computer Pornography and Child Exploitation

Florida Statute § 847.0135

Computer-facilitated child-sex offenses including prohibited solicitation, traveling, and transmissions.

VariesVaries

Continuing Criminal Enterprise

Florida Statute § 893.20

Committing three or more Chapter 893 felonies in concert with five or more persons while holding an organizer, supervisory, or management role and obtaining substantial assets or resources.

FelonyLife

Contributing to Delinquency or Dependency of a Child

Florida Statute § 827.04

Causing, encouraging, or inducing conduct that causes or tends to cause a child to become or remain delinquent, dependent, or in need of services; includes a distinct adult-impregnation track.

VariesVaries

Controlled Substance Offenses

Florida Statute § 893.13

Unlawful sale, manufacture, delivery, possession with intent, or possession of a controlled substance.

VariesVaries

Counterfeit Payment Instrument

Florida Statute § 831.28

Counterfeiting or possessing a counterfeit payment instrument with intent to defraud.

FelonyThird Degree

County Detention Facility Contraband

Florida Statute § 951.22

Unauthorized introduction, possession, exchange, removal, or attempted removal of listed contraband involving a county detention facility or inmate.

VariesVaries

Criminal Mischief

Florida Statute § 806.13

Willfully and maliciously injuring or damaging another person's real or personal property.

VariesVaries

Criminal Use of Personal Identification Information

Florida Statute § 817.568

Fraudulently using, or possessing with intent to fraudulently use, another person's personal identification information without consent.

FelonyVaries

Dangerous Fentanyl Exposure of First Responder

Florida Statute § 893.132

An adult who recklessly exposes a first responder to dangerous fentanyl or fentanyl analogs while unlawfully possessing them, causing overdose or serious bodily injury.

FelonySecond Degree

Dealing in Stolen Property

Florida Statute § 812.019

Trafficking in, or endeavoring to traffic in, property known or reasonably believed to be stolen; a separate first-degree track applies when the defendant organized the theft and trafficked in the property.

FelonyVaries

Depriving Officer of Means of Protection or Communication

Florida Statute § 843.025

Depriving an officer of, or rendering useless, a covered protective or communication item.

FelonyThird Degree

Destructive Device Offenses

Florida Statute § 790.161

Willfully and unlawfully making, possessing, throwing, projecting, placing, discharging, or attempting covered conduct involving a destructive device.

FelonyVaries

Discharging Firearm in Public or Residential Area

Florida Statute § 790.15

Knowingly, recklessly, or negligently discharging a firearm in statutorily prohibited public or residential circumstances.

Felony or MisdemeanorVaries

Disorderly Conduct

Florida Statute § 877.03

Acts that corrupt public morals, outrage public decency, disturb the peace and quiet of witnesses, or involve brawling or fighting.

MisdemeanorSecond Degree

Disorderly Intoxication

Florida Statute § 856.011

Being intoxicated and endangering another person or property, or being intoxicated or drinking alcohol in a public place or public conveyance and causing a public disturbance.

MisdemeanorSecond Degree

Disposing of Lighted Substances

Florida Statute § 590.10

Throwing, dropping, or disposing of a lighted match, cigarette, cigar, ashes, another flaming or glowing substance, or a substance or thing that may or does cause a wildfire.

MisdemeanorFirst Degree

Distribution Causing Overdose or Serious Bodily Injury

Florida Statute § 893.131

An adult's unlawful distribution of specified opioids or analogs when the substance causes or is a substantial factor in causing a user's overdose or serious bodily injury.

VariesVaries

Domestic Battery by Strangulation

Florida Statute § 784.041

Knowingly and intentionally impeding the normal breathing or blood circulation of a family or household member or dating partner against that person's will under the statutory strangulation circumstances.

FelonyThird Degree

Driving Under the Influence

Florida Statute § 316.193

Driving or being in actual physical control of a vehicle while impaired or with an unlawful blood- or breath-alcohol level.

VariesVaries

Driving While License Suspended or Revoked

Florida Statute § 322.34

Driving while a driver license or driving privilege is canceled, suspended, revoked, or disqualified.

VariesVaries

Drug Paraphernalia

Florida Statute § 893.147

Unlawful use, possession, manufacture, delivery, transportation, advertising, or retail sale of drug paraphernalia.

VariesVaries

Drug Trafficking

Florida Statute § 893.135

Knowing sale, purchase, manufacture, delivery, importation, or actual or constructive possession of controlled substances at statutory trafficking quantities.

FelonyFirst Degree

Exposing Children to an Adult Live Performance

Florida Statute § 827.11

Knowingly admitting a child to a qualifying adult live performance.

MisdemeanorFirst Degree

Exposing Minors to Harmful Presentations

Florida Statute § 847.013

Knowingly exposing minors to specified harmful motion pictures, exhibitions, shows, presentations, or representations.

MisdemeanorFirst Degree

Exposure of Sexual Organs

Florida Statute § 800.03

Exposing or exhibiting sexual organs, or being naked in public, in a vulgar or indecent manner.

VariesVaries

Failure to Appear

Florida Statute § 843.15

Willfully failing to appear as required after release in connection with a criminal charge or proceeding.

VariesVaries

False Imprisonment

Florida Statute § 787.02

Forcibly, secretly, or by threat confining, abducting, imprisoning, or restraining another without lawful authority and against the person's will.

VariesVaries

False Name or Identification to Law Enforcement

Florida Statute § 901.36

Giving a false name or otherwise falsely identifying oneself after arrest or lawful detention.

VariesVaries

False Personation of Officer or Protected Official

Florida Statute § 843.08

Falsely assuming or pretending to be a listed officer or official and acting as that person or requiring another person to assist.

FelonyVaries

False Report of Bomb Explosive WMD or Violent Firearm Use

Florida Statute § 790.163

Making a false report about a bomb, explosive, weapon of mass destruction, or violent firearm use with intent to deceive, mislead, or misinform.

FelonySecond Degree

False Reports to Law Enforcement Authorities

Florida Statute § 837.05

Knowingly giving false information to a law enforcement officer concerning the alleged commission of a crime.

VariesVaries

Felon or Delinquent in Possession of Firearm

Florida Statute § 790.23

Possession, custody, control, or ownership of a firearm, ammunition, electric weapon or device, or other weapon by a statutorily prohibited person.

FelonySecond Degree

Felony Battery

Florida Statute § 784.041

An intentional unwanted touching or striking that causes great bodily harm, permanent disability, or permanent disfigurement.

FelonyThird Degree

Female Genital Mutilation

Florida Statute § 794.08

Knowingly committing or attempting female genital mutilation on a person younger than 18, or committing related removal or consent conduct.

VariesVaries

Fleeing or Attempting to Elude

Florida Statute § 316.1935

Willfully failing to stop or fleeing after being ordered to stop by an authorized law enforcement officer.

VariesVaries

Forgery

Florida Statute § 831.01

Falsely making, altering, forging, or counterfeiting a covered writing with intent to injure or defraud.

FelonyThird Degree

Fraudulent Use of Credit Cards

Florida Statute § 817.61

Using a card obtained or retained unlawfully or known to be forged, or falsely representing cardholder status, with intent to defraud.

VariesVaries

Furnishing Weapons or Firearms to a Minor or Person of Unsound Mind

Florida Statute § 790.17

Furnishing covered weapons to a minor or a person of unsound mind, or knowingly and willfully selling or transferring a firearm to a minor, outside the stated permissions.

Felony or MisdemeanorVaries

Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material

Florida Statute § 827.072

Possessing, viewing, transmitting, or creating computer-generated material portraying a fictitious person who reasonably appears to be under 18 engaged in sexual conduct.

VariesVaries

Harmful Communication to a Minor

Florida Statute § 847.01385

An adult's harmful pattern of explicit and detailed sexual communication to a minor.

FelonyThird Degree

Harmful Materials to Minors

Florida Statute § 847.012

Selling, renting, loaning, using a minor to produce, or certain school-property distribution or posting of material harmful to minors.

FelonyThird Degree

Hoax Bomb

Florida Statute § 790.165

Unlawfully making, possessing, displaying, using, threatening to use, or otherwise making available an inoperative device or object that appears or is represented to be a destructive device or explosive.

FelonySecond Degree

Home-Invasion Robbery

Florida Statute § 812.135

Entering a dwelling with intent to commit robbery and committing robbery of an occupant inside.

FelonyFirst Degree

Improper Exhibition of Dangerous Weapon or Firearm

Florida Statute § 790.10

Exhibiting a covered weapon or firearm in a rude, careless, angry, or threatening manner in the presence of one or more persons.

MisdemeanorFirst Degree

Indecent Lewd or Lascivious Touching of Certain Minors

Florida Statute § 794.051

Lewd or lascivious touching by a person 24 or older involving a person 16 or 17 years of age.

FelonyThird Degree

Interference With Custody

Florida Statute § 787.03

Taking or enticing a minor or incompetent person from a lawful custodian, or committing the separate no-court-order custody-interference track.

FelonyThird Degree

Leaving the Scene of a Crash

Florida Statute § 316.027 / 316.061 / 316.063

Failing to stop, provide required information, render aid, or report after a crash involving property damage, injury, serious bodily injury, or death.

VariesVaries

Lewd or Lascivious Offenses

Florida Statute § 800.04

Lewd or lascivious battery, molestation, conduct, or exhibition committed upon or in the presence of a person under 16.

VariesVaries

Loitering or Prowling

Florida Statute § 856.021

Loitering or prowling under unusual circumstances that create justifiable and reasonable alarm or immediate concern for the safety of people or property nearby.

MisdemeanorSecond Degree

Loitering or Prowling by Certain Offenders Near Children

Florida Statute § 856.022

Specified offenders with convictions involving minors who loiter or prowl within 500 feet of where children congregate, or unlawfully contact, communicate with, or approach children at specified locations.

MisdemeanorFirst Degree

Minor Firearm Possession

Florida Statute § 790.22

A minor's prohibited possession of a firearm, or an adult's prohibited permission of a minor's weapon or firearm possession.

Felony or MisdemeanorVaries

Murder and Felony Murder

Florida Statute § 782.04

Unlawful killing under Florida's premeditated, felony-murder, and listed drug-distribution murder provisions.

VariesVaries

No Valid Driver License

Florida Statute § 322.03

Driving a motor vehicle on a Florida highway without a valid driver license.

VariesVaries

Nonsupport of Dependents

Florida Statute § 827.06

Willfully failing to provide support a person has the ability to provide to a child or spouse whom the person knows they are legally obligated to support.

VariesVaries

Obscene Material to a Minor

Florida Statute § 847.0133

Knowingly selling, renting, loaning, giving away, distributing, transmitting, or showing obscene material to a minor.

FelonyThird Degree

Obscene Materials

Florida Statute § 847.011

Knowingly dealing in, possessing, producing, advertising, or participating in conduct involving legally obscene materials, subject to the applicable statutory track.

VariesVaries

Open Carrying of Weapons

Florida Statute § 790.053

Open carrying of a firearm or electric weapon or device when not otherwise authorized by law.

MisdemeanorSecond Degree

Open House Party

Florida Statute § 856.015

Allowing an open house party at a residence under an adult's control when the adult knows a minor possesses or consumes alcohol or a controlled substance and fails to take reasonable steps to prevent it.

MisdemeanorVaries

Organized Fraud

Florida Statute § 817.034

Engaging in a scheme to defraud and obtaining property through that scheme.

FelonyVaries

Possession of Burglary Tools

Florida Statute § 810.06

Possessing a tool, machine, or implement with intent to use it—or allow it to be used—to commit burglary or trespass.

FelonyThird Degree

Possession of Firearm or Ammunition While Subject to Final Injunction

Florida Statute § 790.233

Having care, custody, possession, or control of a firearm or ammunition while subject to a final domestic-violence, stalking, or cyberstalking injunction that remains in effect.

MisdemeanorFirst Degree

Possession of Short-Barreled Rifle Shotgun or Machine Gun

Florida Statute § 790.221

Owning or possessing an operable short-barreled rifle, short-barreled shotgun, or machine gun outside the stated exceptions.

FelonySecond Degree

Property Used for Drug Trafficking or Manufacture

Florida Statute § 893.1351

Owning, leasing, renting, or possessing a place or conveyance with knowledge of specified controlled-substance trafficking, sale, or manufacture activity.

VariesVaries

Prostitution and Related Offenses

Florida Statute § 796.07

Purchasing, selling, soliciting, procuring, inducing, or facilitating prostitution and related prohibited conduct.

VariesVaries

Reckless Driving

Florida Statute § 316.192

Driving with willful or wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property.

VariesVaries

Resisting Officer With Violence

Florida Statute § 843.01

Knowingly and willfully resisting, obstructing, or opposing a legally authorized person, police canine, or police horse by offering or doing violence.

FelonyThird Degree

Resisting Officer Without Violence

Florida Statute § 843.02

Resisting, obstructing, or opposing a legally authorized officer without offering or doing violence.

MisdemeanorFirst Degree

Retail and Farm Theft

Florida Statute § 812.015

Retail theft, farm theft, transit-fare evasion, antishoplifting-device conduct, and related resistance or coordinated conduct.

VariesVaries

Retail Sale of Ephedrine and Related Compounds

Florida Statute § 893.1495

Violating specified retail acquisition, delivery, display, or employee-training restrictions for nonprescription ephedrine or related compounds.

VariesVaries

Robbery

Florida Statute § 812.13

Taking property from another person through force, violence, assault, or putting the person in fear.

FelonyVaries

Robbery by Sudden Snatching

Florida Statute § 812.131

Taking money or property from a victim's person when the victim was or became aware of the taking.

FelonyVaries

Sexting

Florida Statute § 847.0141

A minor's knowing electronic transmission, distribution, or qualifying possession of a nude photograph or video that is harmful to minors.

VariesVaries

Sexual Activities Involving Animals

Florida Statute § 828.126

Knowingly engaging in sexual contact with an animal or committing another prohibited act described by the statute.

FelonyVaries

Sexual Battery

Florida Statute § 794.011

A sexual battery committed under the circumstances and classifications defined by Florida law.

VariesVaries

Sexual Performance by a Child; Child Sexual Abuse Material

Florida Statute § 827.071

Using a child in a sexual performance, promoting such a performance, or specified possession, control, viewing, or solicitation of child sexual abuse material.

VariesVaries

Shooting Into Building or Vehicle

Florida Statute § 790.19

Shooting at, within, or into an occupied or unoccupied building, vehicle, vessel, aircraft, railroad car, or other listed conveyance.

FelonySecond Degree

Stalking

Florida Statute § 784.048

Willfully, maliciously, and repeatedly following, harassing, or cyberstalking another person.

VariesVaries

Tampering With or Fabricating Physical Evidence

Florida Statute § 918.13

Destroying, concealing, altering, removing, making, presenting, or using evidence to impair an investigation or proceeding.

FelonyThird Degree

Theft

Florida Statute § 812.014

The unlawful taking or use of another person's property.

VariesVaries

Threat Concerning a Destructive Device

Florida Statute § 790.162

Threatening to throw, project, place, or discharge a destructive device with the required intent.

FelonySecond Degree

Threats or Harassment of Protected Officials

Florida Statute § 836.12

Knowingly and willfully threatening a protected official or family member with death or serious bodily harm, or harassing a protected official with intent to intimidate or coerce a lawful duty.

Felony or MisdemeanorVaries

Transmission of Child Sexual Abuse Material

Florida Statute § 847.0137

Knowingly or with reason to know transmitting child sexual abuse material by electronic device or equipment.

FelonySecond Degree

Transmission of Harmful Material to a Minor

Florida Statute § 847.0138

Knowingly transmitting material harmful to minors to a specific individual known or believed to be a minor.

FelonyThird Degree

Trespass

Florida Statute § 810.08 / 810.09

Unauthorized entry into or remaining in a structure, conveyance, or other property under circumstances prohibited by Florida law.

VariesVaries

Unlawful Assembly

Florida Statute § 870.02

Three or more persons meeting together to commit a breach of the peace or any other unlawful act.

MisdemeanorSecond Degree

Unlawful Desertion of a Child

Florida Statute § 827.10

A caregiver deserting a child under circumstances exposing the child to an unreasonable risk of harm.

FelonyThird Degree

Unlawful Possession of Listed Chemical

Florida Statute § 893.149

Knowingly or intentionally possessing or distributing a listed chemical for unlawful controlled-substance manufacture.

FelonySecond Degree

Unlawful Sexual Activity with Certain Minors

Florida Statute § 794.05

Sexual activity by a person 24 years of age or older with a person 16 or 17 years of age.

FelonySecond Degree

Unlawful Use of Two-Way Communications Device

Florida Statute § 934.215

Using a two-way communications device to facilitate or further the commission of a felony.

FelonyThird Degree

Unsafe Firearm Storage

Florida Statute § 790.174

Improperly storing or leaving a loaded firearm where a minor likely to gain access obtains and improperly possesses or exhibits it.

MisdemeanorSecond Degree

Using Firearm While Under the Influence

Florida Statute § 790.151

Using a firearm while under the influence of alcohol, specified chemical substances, or controlled substances to the extent normal faculties are impaired.

MisdemeanorSecond Degree

Uttering a Forged Instrument

Florida Statute § 831.02

Publishing or presenting a false, forged, or altered covered writing as true while knowing it is false and intending injury or fraud.

FelonyThird Degree

Violation of Domestic Violence Injunction

Florida Statute § 741.31

Willfully violating a domestic-violence injunction or qualifying foreign protection order through a listed prohibited act.

VariesVaries

Violation of Domestic Violence Pretrial-Release Condition

Florida Statute § 741.29

Willfully violating a statutory condition of pretrial release when the original arrest was for an act of domestic violence.

MisdemeanorFirst Degree

Violation of Protective Injunction

Florida Statute § 784.047

Willfully violating an injunction for protection against repeat violence, sexual violence, or dating violence, or a qualifying foreign protection order.

VariesVaries

Weapon or Firearm During Criminal Offense

Florida Statute § 790.07

Displaying, using, threatening to use, attempting to use, or carrying a covered weapon or firearm while committing or attempting a felony or while under indictment.

FelonyVaries

Weapons or Firearms at School

Florida Statute § 790.115

Possessing, exhibiting, or discharging covered weapons or firearms at a school-sponsored event or school location, subject to statutory exceptions.

Felony or MisdemeanorVaries

Worthless Checks

Florida Statute § 832.05

Giving a check, draft, debit-card order, or similar order while knowing there are insufficient funds or credit, under the statutory circumstances.

VariesVaries

Written or Electronic Threats

Florida Statute § 836.10

Sending, posting, transmitting, or procuring a written or electronic threat to kill, cause bodily injury, conduct a mass shooting, or commit terrorism.

FelonySecond Degree

Written Solicitation of Certain Minors to Commit a Lewd or Lascivious Act

Florida Statute § 794.053

A written solicitation by a person 24 or older asking a person 16 or 17 to commit a lewd or lascivious act.

FelonyThird Degree