Workers at a St. Augustine area Denny’s didn’t quite buy it when a middle-aged woman tried to rob the joint last week with what she said was a gun in her pocket. The waitress called her bluff and the suspect took off, an article in the Florida Times-Union reports. The suspect is about 5-foot-2 and…
Continue reading ›Victoria “Tori” Mussallem, our Jacksonville Sex Crimes Attorney, represented a client in trial on three sex crime charges in Jacksonville and our client was found NOT GUILTY. Our client, J.B., was arrested and charged with Lewd or Lascivious Molestation on a child under 12 years-old, Unlawful Sexual Contact with a Minor, and Lewd or Lascivious…
Continue reading ›The last of four men involved in attempted escape from the Duval County jail was sentenced to 20 years in prison last week, again proving the old adage correct that it’s just better to do your time. William Roy Hayes was one of four men who in August 2010 overpowered a corrections officer and fought…
Continue reading ›A 16-year-old boy trying to run from police finds himself in much deeper trouble now after he ran a red light and killed a 22-year-old driver. The teen, Zachary Lambert, is now charged with vehicular homicide, according to the Florida Times-Union. Vehicular homicide is a second degree felony in Florida and is punishable by up…
Continue reading ›Hollywood and the celebrity news organizations were abuzz last week when police reopened the death investigation 30 years after actress Natalie Wood was said to have drowned. And a St. Augustine boat captain is at the center of the case. Dennis Davern, who now lives in St. Augustine, was captain of the boat owned by…
Continue reading ›A former Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office records clerk has pleaded guilty to leaking confidential information, including pictures of undercover officers. Kenitra Casper was arrested in June and pleaded guilty last week to 12 counts of disclosing or using confidential law enforcement information, according to the Florida Times-Union. The technical title of these crimes is “Disclosure or…
Continue reading ›The Florida Highway Patrol apparently has one set of rules when government vehicles are involved in crashes and another for all other incidents, according to a First Coast News report. Last week, a Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office detective was in an unmarked car when he slammed into a Florida Highway Patrol car. The JSO officer was…
Continue reading ›One would-be armed robber is dead and his accomplice is in jail following a shootout in a Northwest Jacksonville seafood shop last week. Police told the Florida Times-Union the owner started firing after two masked men came in, pointed their guns and demanded money just after 6:30 p.m. last Friday. A store manager, however, told…
Continue reading ›Jacksonville police had some extra help hunting a suspected intoxicated driver last month, and an internal investigation has been launched to see if the dispatcher did too much to help the citizen investigator. A motorist called 911 to report a driver “all over the road,” according to the Florida Times-Union. The dispatcher is supposed to…
Continue reading ›Some cases stick in the state’s craw enough that, despite an overturned conviction and a mistrial, prosecutors push on through a third trial to get their guy. Just ask Jacquan Shootes. Shootes was convicted last week on two counts of aggravated assault in Jacksonville for a 2007 shootout with police, according to the Florida Times-Union.…
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