Jacksonville Criminal Defense Attorney Blog

A veteran Clay County Sheriff’s Office deputy was suspended following his arrest last month on a DUI charge following a traffic crash. James Avery was arrested by the Florida Highway Patrol after the 1:15 a.m. crash after he was allegedly mumbling his speech, unsteady on his feet and appearing to be very tired and drowsy,…

Coming up on two years after he was first arrested on a Clay County DUI charge, prosecutors have not chosen not to go forward with the case against a Clay County lawyer and former school board candidate. During a pretrial hearing last month, the State Attorney’s Office announced it would drop the charges against Joseph…

A Jacksonville man who’s already served half of a five-year prison sentence after being convicted in the 2010 beating of a convenience store owner will now get a new trial in the case. Gerald Cribbs was convicted in a 2011 trial and sentenced to five years in prison on the Duval County felony assault charge,…

A Clay County elementary school teacher was arrested last week and charged with a felony after cocaine and a short straw presumably used to snort the powder drug were allegedly found in her purse in her fifth-grade classroom. Ashlea Eucker was in a meeting and told a school counselor how to get into her desk…

A Jacksonville man turned himself into police last week, just hours after authorities publicly announced he was wanted on a Jacksonville sexual battery charge connected to a February rape in downtown Jacksonville. Police broadcast Jerry Gallion’s name and photo in asking for the public’s help in locating him last week, according to a report on…

Minutes before a hearing on whether the state’s Stand Your Ground law would clear an elderly Jacksonville Beach man in the shooting death of man visiting his girlfriend, the 77-year-old opted to plead guilty to a manslaughter charge. Vannie Collier pleaded guilty this month to manslaughter, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union. The…

A high-ranking assistant chief and 22-year veteran of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office was arrested last weekend for DUI following a crash on Interstate 95 in St. Johns County. Larry Jones was arrested on the misdemeanor driving under the influence charge and spent the night in jail before posting a $500 bond to get out, according…

Two St. Johns County residents were arrested last week, accused of making methamphetamine in a local hotel. Police arrived at the hotel around 5 a.m. after hearing several reports of suspicious activity, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union. When Eric Messler, one of the people staying in the room, opened the door, police…

After three days of deliberations, a federal jury found three doctors and an investor not guilty of a slew of charges related to their roles in Jacksonville pain clinics. The three doctors were charged with conspiracy to manufacture and distribute controlled substances, along with money laundering charges, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union.…

A Clay County junior high school teacher was arrested on a felony child abuse charge last week, accused of putting a 13-year-old student in a choke hold during a confrontation. The incident began when gym teacher Michael Ford, 42, accused the student of breaking a chair, which the student denied, according to a report in…