Articles Posted in Theft Crimes in Jacksonville

A man who came back to a Clay County gas station to pay off a $3 debt ended up handing himself to police for an arrest on an armed robbery charge. A gas station clerk was telling a police officer about her “good deed” by loaning a man in an old truck $3 for gas…

A Jacksonville man spent nine months in jail for a robbery he didn’t commit, and it took those nine months for prosecutors to pay enough attention to the case to figure it out and release him from jail. Joshua Angel was arrested in September 2012, the night two men robbed a man in a wheelchair…

A Jacksonville man facing decades in prison for stealing and then pawning jewelry he removed from dead bodies was sentenced to 90 days in county jail. Christopher Allen was forensic investigator with the Medical Examiner’s Office and faced five felony charges after an investigation pinned him as the person responsible for missing jewelry, according to…

Police arrested a man accused of taking a wallet and cellphone out of a car while the driver was renting a movie from an outdoor kiosk. Christopher Tate turned himself in after seeing his picture on the news in connection with the crime, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union. Tate is now charged…

Just weeks after being found guilty on 103 counts of gambling-related charges, Jacksonville attorney Kelly Mathis is asking the court for a new trial. The state pegged Mathis as the mastermind of a $300 million gambling operation that prosecutors say used the Allied Veterans of the World nonprofit as a front for the ring, according…

A longtime officer with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office was arrested this month and charged with 27 felonies after authorities say an internal investigation found he falsified time sheets. Police say Denny Hamlin, a 17-year veteran of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, lied about more than $4,000 in overtime, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union.…

A forensic investigator with the Medical Examiner’s Office faces three felony charges amid allegations he was taking jewelry off of dead bodies and pawning the items for cash. Christopher Allen was arrested at work in September after a four-month investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union.…

St. Johns County police have arrested four teens in a rash of recent thefts from unlocked cars that have become prevalent over the past several months. A family member of one of the suspects tipped police to the location of some of the stolen property, and police are still investigating whom all of it belongs…

A Jacksonville lawyer publicly pegged as the mastermind of a massive scheme to use a charity as a front to making millions on Internet Café gambling said he has never considered any sort of plea deal in the case. Mathis is charged with racketeering and money laundering, but insists he wants his day in court…

The regular rundown of Clay County property crimes published in the Florida Times-Union can be an entertaining read of the things people steal. The most recent installment includes copper tubing from linked propane tanks at a Winn-Dixie, a backflow preventer from the water line of a business, a lawnmower and a motorcycle, the newspaper reported.…