Jacksonville Criminal Defense Attorney Blog

Putnam County detectives conducted the first major synthetic marijuana bust on the First Coast since the increasingly popular drug was banned in Florida as of July 1. Narcotics detectives confiscated 2,500 packets of synthetic marijuana, also known as K2 or Spice, at 10 different stores, according to a report by News4Jax.com. Police did not make…

After a Jacksonville fourth-grade teacher was arrested in Jacksonville for six counts of lewd and lascivious contact with a child, a backlash is being directed at the Duval County School Board for keeping the suspect in a classroom despite similar accusations in 2009. Christopher Bacca, 26, a teacher at Windy Hill Elementary School in Jacksonville,…

Jacksonville Jaguars draft pick Justin Blackmon pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor DUI charge stemming from a June arrest in Oklahoma. Blackmon’s blood-alcohol level was more than three times the legal limit of .08, but he received the standard sentence of probation, fines and alcohol awareness courses that most first-time Jacksonville DUI offenders receive, according to…

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…

Police arrested a Jacksonville man this week on multiple DUI charges for a St. Johns County crash that seriously injured three teen-agers and left one more with minor injuries. Brian Reynolds Peters is facing a litany of charges, including three counts of DUI causing serious injury; DUI causing injury; two counts of DUI causing property…

Every year, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement releases offense and arrest data for the state as a whole and for individual counties. In 2011, the total number of adults arrested in Florida was just over 950,000. Just over 87,000 juveniles were arrested for various crimes in every county, including Duval County. Reports of many…

A special task force of the Clay County Sheriff’s Office spent a year going undercover and trying to break apart illegal drug operations, resulting in 47 arrests in Clay County last week. Detectives started looking into a Middleburg neighborhood notorious for drug activity, but then spread through the entire county with help from local police…

Two Jacksonville men were back in jail after the Florida Department of Law Enforcement conducted a sweep of unregistered sex offenders. Police arrested one man in April and another in June for these Jacksonville Sex Crimes, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union. State police timed the crackdown around a time where students were…

A Jacksonville man picked up his 18th arrest last week, charged with Jacksonville DUI Manslaughter and vehicular homicide after an April crash that killed a passenger in his car. The Duval County arrest was the third DUI for Douglas Hippen and the judge ordered him held on a $300,000 bond, according to a report in…