Articles Posted in Theft Crimes in Jacksonville

As a Jacksonville Criminal Lawyer, I represent people charged with all types of crimes, including Burglary in Jacksonville. Car burglaries, also referred to as Burglary to a Conveyance in Duval County, are up in one Jacksonville neighborhood. In the past week, seven cars were broken into in the apartment complex of Leigh Meadows, according to…

Video footage of a couple hundred teens piling into a Jacksonville Wal-Mart, destroying produce and stealing snacks went viral on YouTube and was shown on television newscasts across the country. Now, police have singled out one person they are looking for in connection with the incident this month, according to a report in the Florida…

Jacksonville police arrested a man with a saw and what they said was a stolen catalytic converter – and there may be plenty more where that came from, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union. Police suspect Torre Ludwig in at least seven thefts of the converters, which reduce vehicle emissions as part of…

A Duval County judge dismissed the case against a former Raines High School principal charged with giving false statements to police. George Maxey admitted that he initially intentionally gave police wrong information to protect students who stole items from the locker room of a visiting football team, the Florida Times-Union reported. But his Jacksonville criminal…

It would seem the city of Jacksonville is plagued with car burglaries. According to a report from News4Jax in just the first three months of 2012, over 900 Jacksonville car burglaries have been reported. The zip codes with the highest reported incidences were 32210 with 79, 32244 with 77, 32246 with 67, and 32218 with…

Restaurant inspection reports are the public records de jour for Jacksonville media these days – creating searchable databases and weekly features showing their readers and viewers which restaurants are infested with roaches and have slime in the ice machine. A failed inspection can destroy a business’ reputation, even force the restaurant to close until the…

Undercover Jacksonville police officers are putting a dent in the underground scrap car part business, wearing wires and trying to take down people buying stolen cars and parts. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office announced a string of Duval County arrests last week in cases they’ve been building in the last month, according to a report in…

A former senior-level Jacksonville Electric Authority engineer pleaded guilty to bribery charges after devising a scheme to sell a contractor construction materials from a city yard for cash. Thomas William Allen was making more than $80,000 a year at JEA before his arrest last fall, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union. Allen went…

An elderly, disabled woman who had been inflating her paycheck is confined to her home for two years and must pay back the $161,000 she took from a church she worked for. The missing money was discovered after the Terry Road Baptist Church upgraded its accounting system, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union.…

Less than a week after playing his last basketball game for the University of Florida, former point guard Erving Walker was caught trying to make a fast break from a taco vendor. Walker ran off with the taco without paying for it, and also ran from police before being caught and arrested, according to a…