Jacksonville Criminal Defense Attorney Blog

Jacksonville Beach police put additional patrols from their department and neighboring agencies on the streets in a 20-hour crackdown on traffic violations and DUIs. The result was four DUIs arrests and 271 traffic tickets in a span from 7 a.m. on a Saturday to 3 a.m. Sunday morning, according to a report in the Florida…

A robbery that netted less than $20 worth of gas and cigarettes could land a pair of St. Johns County siblings in prison for decades. The two were caught shortly after the man walked into the gas station and threatened the clerk with a knife, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union. The man…

Jacksonville police have yet to find a man accused of bringing a gun into a Duval County high school this month. The man who came onto the high school campus was not a student at the school, according to a report on First Coast News. The person was approached by school staff who saw the…

Jacksonville police have opened an investigation into a Jacksonville man accused of throwing a cup of liquid at another car during an apparent argument. This is probably something that happens daily on roads across Jacksonville, but there’s one reason this one has bubbled up to earn media attention: It was caught on video. A woman…

Police searched a Northeast Florida home and found what they described as an elaborate marijuana grow operation and seized plants with a street value of tens of thousands of dollars. Police said they received a search warrant to look inside the home and found 72 mature marijuana plants and marijuana that had already been picked…

A Georgia man who told police he has three prior DUI arrests was arrested and charged this month for his role in a Jacksonville crash that critically injured a 19-year-old motorcyclist. Police said the driver was turning left into an apartment complex when he did not stop for a motorcycle that ran into the front…

A man who was a teenager at the time he was arrested on murder and other charges, pleaded guilty this month and avoided a potential life sentence. The man, now 21, pleaded guilty in connection with the shooting death of an 18-year-old man in 2013, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union. He pleaded…

A Clay County man was arrested and booked on three charges this week, all stemming from a June traffic crash that killed a 24-year-old man. The driver was accused of driving into a man who was walking his bicycle across an intersection, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union. This month, he was charged…

A Jacksonville police officer is now facing two charges – including one felony – in connection with allegedly lying about how many hours she worked in an off-duty role. Investigators had been watching the officer for more than a month and found she only worked about 15 of the 24 hours she was reporting for…

A man from Jacksonville and another from St. Johns County were arrested last week, caught by undercover detectives who say they men were on their way to a sexual encounter with a child they believed to be under the age of 14. But the person they were accused of chatting with online and arranging to…