Staff report
LAKE BUTLER— Three defendants arrested during a June 3 popup party at Lakeside Park in Lake Butler settled their cases.
The gathering, which started near Waldo’s Lake Alto but moved to Lake Butler after Alachua County officials chased the revelers away, resulted in one person shot, several roads blocked, and deputies using chemical agents to chase away the out-of-towners.
Surrounding law enforcement agencies, including the Bradford County Sheriff’s Office, assisted Union deputies in breaking up the party.
Brantley Keith Taylor
The State Attorney’s office dropped an affray charge against 38-year-old Brantley Keith Taylor II.
Taylor of Lake Butler was arrested for disorderly conduct.
Deputy Erik L. Krueger wrote in an arrest report that while trying to disperse a crowd gathered at the Spires IGA Market, Taylor, a white male on a bicycle, approached the lawman’s patrol vehicle and blocked Southwest First Street with his two-wheeler.
“While approaching my patrol vehicle, Taylor was yelling derogatory remarks and motioned for me to shut my sirens off,” Krueger wrote. “I placed my vehicle in park and made contact with Taylor, who continued to yell.”
The deputy added that he removed the defendant from the bike, placed him into handcuffs, and took him to jail.
Betty Carn
Betty Taniyah Amahni Carn, 21, of Starke pleaded to resisting an officer without violence and was sentenced to one year probation and 50 hours of community service.
According to an arrest report, Carn was the driver of a Dodge Charger, one of two vehicles Bradford SWAT members stopped during traffic enforcement.
Officers told Carn to leave the area and not to return while they turned their attention to the second vehicle stopped.
“I observed the vehicle drive approximately 100 yards east and turn around,” wrote arresting deputy Clyde N. Berringer in the report. “Betty returned to the scene, parking on the opposite side of the highway, partially on the grass and on the highway, and stated, “I need to check on my friend.”
Berringer added that he arrested the 21-year-old because she returned to the scene after being ordered not to come back and that she made the scene unsafe because her vehicle partially blocked the roadway.
Donneya Robinson
Donneya Robinson, 22, pleaded to resisting an officer without violence and culpable negligence and was sentenced to a year’s probation and 50 hours of community service.
Robinson, of Gainesville, was arrested for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Berringer wrote in an arrest report that he saw Robinson and Bradford Sgt. Scott Konkell in a verbal dispute at West Main Street and Southwest 6th Avenue, an intersection surrounded by Skip’s Deli, Shatto Heating and Air, McDonald’s, and Spires.
According to Berringer, Konkel ordered Robinson to turn south onto Southwest 6th Avenue because of a traffic tie-up. Robinson refused to comply with Konkel’s order and also rebuffed his command for her to exit the vehicle.
“Sergeant Konkle delivered a one-second burst of Oleoresin Capsicum in an attempt to gain compliance,” reported Berringer. “He then attempted to open the driver’s door of the vehicle. When Sergeant Konkle attempted this, Donneya immediately sped off, causing Sergeant Konkle to lose his balance and nearly being run over by the back left tire of the vehicle.”
Deputies stopped the defendant in the Spires parking lot and took her into custody.
Robinson and Carn were each ordered to pay the sheriff’s office $500 to reimburse the agency for the costs of investigations.
The cases of seven other defendants, including that of Diamond Wanae Golden, whom deputies accuse of organizing the party, and that of Troy Carter Goodman II, arrested for shooting a person at Lakeside Park, remain pending.
