BY DAN HILDEBRAN
Monitor Editor
STARKE— A 25-year-old Starke woman was sentenced to four years in prison after pleading to damaging a car with a key, and in a separate incident, striking a victim in the face with a metal object, possibly a key.
Brittany Shyanne Davis pleaded no contest to the April 28, 2021, offenses of grand theft and criminal mischief, in addition to the Dec. 10, 2021, offense of felony battery.
The defendant also pleaded to two probation violations triggered by her April and December arrests.
According to an April 28 arrest report, a 72-year-old Alton Road resident told Starke police that Davis entered her home without permission and stole her granddaughter’s two televisions and a laptop computer. The victim also claimed Davis vandalized her vehicle.
“(The victim) advised that Brittany scratched up the hood and keyed the rear passenger door on her vehicle,” wrote arresting officer Markel Parks.
In a Dec. 10 arrest report, a 37-year-old County Road 230A resident told Bradford deputies that during an argument, Davis became incensed and struck the victim above the left eye with an unknown metal object, possibly a key.
“Consequently,” wrote Deputy Brian Haddock in the report, “the victim sustained a deep laceration above her left eye.
Davis’s probation violations arose from two 2020 car break ins she pleaded to in 2021.
In a Dec. 7, 2020 arrest report, Starke Police Officer David Bukowski wrote that a South Epperson Street resident said that after going outside to smoke a cigarette, she saw Davis inside her car, stuffing items into a large duffel bag.
The officer added that Davis claimed her uncle instructed her to retrieve tools from the car and that the defendant thought the items she took belonged to her uncle.
Bukowski returned a flashlight, tape measure, compass and a face mask to the victim.
Police later received a report of a second car break-in that occurred across the street from the first.
The victim said several packs of L&M menthol cigarettes, in addition to a can of Victoria’s Secret Body Spray and a gold-colored hair clip with pearls on top were stolen.
Bukowski wrote that when he searched Davis’s duffel bag during his investigation of the first reported burglary, he found packs of cigarettes and a hair clip matching the description of items stolen in the second reported burglary.
Judge James Colaw originally withheld adjudication and sentenced Davis to 10 days in jail and one-and-a-half years’ drug offender probation for the two burglaries.
