A resident ranger at a Boy Scout camp in Clay County was arrested last week for soliciting and taking bribes from people assigned to do community service there. Michael Kenneth Eble was taking money from the defendants and then signing their official documents to indicate they had completed the community service, according to a report…
Continue reading ›A Jacksonville judge handed down six consecutive life sentences to a man found guilty of knowingly allowing a convicted sexual offender to live in his daughter’s room and ultimately molest her. Christopher Scott Perry was convicted of five counts of principal to Jacksonville sexual battery on a child younger than 12, according to a report…
Continue reading ›An undercover investigator posing as an unsuspecting homeowner helped bust 11 unlicensed contractors last month, part of a series of similar operations across Florida. All of the unlicensed contractors were charged with soliciting contracting work without state licenses, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union. The crime is a Jacksonville first-degree misdemeanor punishable by…
Continue reading ›A man pulled over for driving all over a Clay County road and eventually arrested for Driving Under The Influence told police his driving was erratic because a squirrel was biting him as he drove. The man did have a baby squirrel wrapped up in his shirt when police came to his window, but the…
Continue reading ›The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to hear a DUI case that is expected to clarify when police are allowed to force a blood draw on a person suspected of DUI. The court’s opinion, now expected to come down in early 2013, will likely have a far-reaching, nationwide impact on a suspect’s right to refuse…
Continue reading ›A former Jacksonville police officer will spend 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to molesting two young girls and then admitting to doing the same things to other children over most of his law enforcement career. Richard Cannon was a Jacksonville police officer for 25 years before his arrest on 13 Duval County sex…
Continue reading ›The legal chess match continues to be interesting theater in the case of Cristian Fernandez, the youngest person in the state of Florida to be charged with first degree murder. Last month, a Jacksonville judge threw out video interviews of police interrogations of Fernandez, ruling that the then-12-year-old did not understand that he was waiving…
Continue reading ›He faced up to 30-years for leaving the scene of a hit-and-run accident that killed a 23-year-old woman, but Michael Levi Beauregard was sentenced last week to just one year in jail. Beauregard will also be on probation in Jacksonville for five years for the May 2011 accident that killed a woman who was riding…
Continue reading ›More than two weeks after a Jacksonville teen was killed when a van drove into her bedroom, police have charged a 51-year-old man in her death. Ismet Sijamhodzic was arrested in Jacksonville and charged with vehicular homicide and was being held in the Duval County jail on a bond of $250,000, according to a report…
Continue reading ›A Jacksonville man walked out of court a free man last week, acquitted of Duval County sex charges that he molested his 2-year-old daughter more than six years ago. Jerry Paul Tippins had been in jail for more than six years awaiting the trial, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union. He was initially…
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