Clay County detectives were in round-up mode last week, arresting more than three dozen people after targeting 48 for arrests on various drug crimes. Charges are as minor as misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia, but most of the counts involve some sort of sale of a controlled substance or crack cocaine, according to a report…
Continue reading ›A JEA worker was sentenced to 13 months in prison for changing customer account records, resulting in an estimated $50,000 in lost revenue to the Jacksonville city-owned utility. Stephen Smith pleaded guilty last week to second-degree grand theft in Duval County, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union. After his prison term, he’ll be…
Continue reading ›The state has two weeks to charge the man behind the wheel in a Jacksonville Landing hit-and-run death with a felony, or a judge will accept his guilty plea to a misdemeanor DUI in Duval County. Brain Patterson tried to plead guilty to the misdemeanor DUI last week related to the August case, just one…
Continue reading ›A Jacksonville woman was found guilty of second-degree murder for a second time, convicted for her role in planning the gas station robbery her boyfriend was committing when he was shot by two Jacksonville police officers in 2010. Shaketa Jones was found guilty last week in the death of Jessie Cooper, according to a report…
Continue reading ›A Jacksonville man who had been out on bail on a Duval County DUI for an accident that killed a man at the Jacksonville Landing is now back in jail after being arrested for Driving Under the Influence again. The judge revoked his bond and Brian Patterson, 32, is not expected to be released until…
Continue reading ›A Brevard County man is facing a Duval County second-degree murder charge for shooting and killing a Jacksonville teen outside a Southside gas station. Michael David Dunn, 45, is being held in the Duval County jail awaiting trial for the November shooting, and the story his criminal defense lawyer is giving differs dramatically from what…
Continue reading ›The last of 17 cases stemming from a child sex sting last year in St. Johns County wrapped up last month and all but one of the men will serve time behind bars. One man received five years of probation in St. Johns County, another received just less than a year in the county jail…
Continue reading ›A federal jury in Jacksonville found a Georgia woman did not intentionally injure several people when she drove her car into a cyclist, a motor scooter and several cars in Ponte Vedra Beach in 2010. Andrea Zampatti has cleared one hurdle with that verdict in the civil case. Now, she moves onto the criminal courtroom…
Continue reading ›A veteran Jacksonville police officer resigned last week after he was arrested on two counts of soliciting for prostitution in Duval County. David Sumlin, an eight-year veteran of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, was charged last week with two counts of soliciting for prostitution. The charge is a second-degree Jacksonville misdemeanor and punishable by up to…
Continue reading ›A man serving a life sentence for robbing a Jacksonville cell phone store has now been charged with the 2011 killing of a Jacksonville woman and police say the robbery and her death are connected. Police arrested Kenneth Thompson last week and charged him with murder in the death of Michelle McCoy, who was last…
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