Civil rights activists and others are demanding answers after an unarmed 17-year-old boy was shot last month by a neighborhood watch captain inside a gated Sanford community. Details are continuing to emerge in the death of Trayvon Martin, a Miami boy visiting family in Central Florida when he was killed. Many are calling for the…
Continue reading ›A new report by the University of North Florida shows that while arrests are decreasing, the number of people in the Duval County Jail is going up. The report, according to an article in the Florida Times-Union, says since 2005, arrests are down 27 percent, but the daily jail population has increased 14 percent. One…
Continue reading ›Police are investigating a longtime JEA employee accused of fiddling with customer accounts to reduce their balances and, in one instance, accepting prescription drugs in exchange for doing so. Stephen Smith, a 14-year JEA employee, was suspended by the city-owned utility last month according to a report in the Florida Times-Union. JEA took the information…
Continue reading ›As a Criminal Attorney in Jacksonville, I have represented many people charged with crimes involving weapons. In addition to gun crimes in Jacksonville, there are other weapons crimes people can be charged with. One such crime is Possession of a Concealed Weapon. This Duval County weapon crime is a first degree misdemeanor punishable by up…
Continue reading ›Horrific accusations made national headlines last week when a Jacksonville Beach mother was arrested for trading sex with her 6-year-old daughter for drugs. Dalina J. Nicholas, 35, was arrested in Georgia as a fugitive and will be charged with child neglect in Jacksonville, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union. The young girl is…
Continue reading ›A Clay County sheriff’s deputy was fired last week, immediately after his arrest on a rape charge. A woman told police about the alleged assault that happened March 8. Two days later, Deputy Jacob Middleton, 26, was arrested and fired, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union. Very few details on the case were…
Continue reading ›Three Jacksonville juveniles have fessed up to trying to hit semi-trucks with rocks on Interstate 10 and sending one driver to the hospital. The suspects are 12, 14 and 15, according to a report on First Coast News. A truck driver was injured last week when a rock hit his windshield and cracked it, sending…
Continue reading ›A Jacksonville teen pleaded guilty to attempted manslaughter in Jacksonville last week and will spend a year on house arrest and another three on probation after accidentally shooting his friend. Tyler Willis, 18, shot his friend in the head with two dozen shotgun pellets after the two had smoked marijuana and were going to trade…
Continue reading ›A finding by a Jacksonville jury this week proves again that Jacksonville sex crimes are handled completely differently than any other crime in the state of Florida. William Larimore was set to be released after serving 18 months for failing to registered as a sex offender, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union. But…
Continue reading ›A St. Augustine woman who taped a picture of herself onto someone else’s driver’s license was sentenced to five years in prison for her fourth DUI conviction. When Denise Boman, 62, was pulled over in June, she handed police the homemade license and drove off, crashing into a utility pole, according to a report on…
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