Jacksonville Criminal Defense Attorney Blog

The Florida Department of Children and Families has shut down a Westside Jacksonville child care center after the operator continued to watch children despite a Jacksonville battery conviction. The operator was arrested in October 2010 and pleaded no contest in the next morning. Battery is one of the charges that allows the state to revoke…

Admit your mistakes, do your time and get on with your life, right? Not so with Florida sex crimes, especially those involving teen-agers. Former Jacksonville pastor Darrell Gilyard is now learning that, according to reports in the Florida Times-Union. Gilyard was released last month after serving three years in prison for groping a teen during…

It’s closing time on the case of a St. Augustine mother convicted of supplying teenagers with booze and drugs at her home, which led to the deaths of two teen-agers. Last week, the Florida Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal from Diane Katz Santarelli. She must now report to serve her 364 days in…

Of the nation’s 20 largest cities, a recent report showed Jacksonville has the fourth-highest percentage of people who’ve been arrested for driving under the influence (DUI). That’s certainly no shocker for our Jacksonville DUI Defense Law Firm. Our criminal defense law firm has represented hundreds of people accused of DUI in Jacksonville. Last year in…

Clay County police headed to Michael Anthony Quinn’s house on Christmas Day, called to investigate a disturbance. On their way, deputies found Quinn with a loaded shotgun and a revolver headed to a second residence to “take care” of the undetermined number victims, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union. Quinn, a school bus…

There’s plenty of anger to go around in the friendly skies these days – from actor Alec Baldwin to right here at Jacksonville International Airport. A 31-year-old Georgia man was arrested at JIA last month after confronting a woman he said was “spreading disease” on the plane, according to Action News Jacksonville. When passengers were…

Jacksonville police are again using federal racketeering laws to bring in arrests by the bunches in Northwest Jacksonville. The latest haul was seven men police say are in the “Grand Park gang,” named after the neighborhood that’s the gang’s home turf and one of the most violent areas in Jacksonville, according to the Florida Times-Union.…

A Nassau County Sheriff’s Office detective crossed the vaunted “thin blue line,” going to the FBI and wearing a wire to try to take down his boss. A Florida Times-Union investigation published over two days last week provides an inside look at what the feds might be looking for with their probe into the department…

Certain crimes are just made for television. Not necessarily because the storyline has all the trappings of a Hollywood storyline, but because the surveillance video is so clear there is no doubt the suspect will end up on the news. Police jump at the chance to release video like the one last week of two…

An internal probe of missing drugs on Clay County rescue units has the feel of a teen-ager trying to reload water into vodka bottles after raiding his or her parents’ liquor cabinet. Clay County authorities announced the investigation last week after finding medications missing from seven of 12 rescue units, according to a report in…