Genivaldo Gomes Moreira, 41, was arrested Sunday in connection with an apartment fire in Deerfield Beach that killed Ana De Souza, 54, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said.

A family is speaking out after a man was arrested in connection with an arson fire that consumed a Deerfield Beach home and killed a woman and her dog. Genivaldo Gomes Moreira, 41, was arrested Sunday night and is accused of setting the fire that killed Ana Paula Ribeiro de Souza,

DEERFIELD BEACH - An investigation is underway after a woman's body was found in a burning Deerfield Beach duplex early Friday morning. It happened in the 4300 block of NW 4 Avenue, which is just west of I-95 and north of Sample Road.

A man has been arrested in connection with a murder and arson that occurred last week in Deerfield Beach, authorities confirmed Monday to Local 10 News.

The Friday predawn home fire that killed a Deerfield Beach woman and her dog struck investigators as suspicious from early on in the investigation. Sunday, an arson suspect was arrested in Manatee County and his address says this could’ve been a case of deadly domestic violence.

One woman died in a house fire in Deerfield Beach on Thursday morning, emergency crews told NBC6 at the scene.

Firefighters found one person dead after responding to a residential fire on Friday morning in Deerfield Beach.

A woman was found dead inside a smoldering Deerfield Beach duplex early Friday morning after BSO firefighters extinguished a fire they think may have been deliberately set. The fire was reported around 4:40 a.m. at the duplex located in the 4300 block of Fourth Avenue, said Claudinne Caro, a Broward Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman.

Authorities said they have located a woman who was reported missing from Deerfield Beach.According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, 37-year-old<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More