BY DAN HILDEBRAN
A 47-year-old former Lake Butler resident was sentenced to 10 years after pleading to a probation violation.
According to a violation report, Dexter Dewin Edwards told a Flagler County deputy he broke into a Palm Coast home to be arrested and receive treatment for his mental illness.
Edwards was first detained on December 8, 2022, after he was accused of throwing a rock into the window of a vehicle on State Road 16 in the area of the Starke Golf and Country Club.
Bradford Deputy Jared Mallard wrote in an arrest report that while taking Edwards into custody, the then-44-year-old brandished a knife and was concealing a firearm in his backpack.
The following April, Judge James M. Colaw ruled the defendant incompetent to proceed and ordered him into the custody of Florida’s Department of Children and Families.
Six months later, the judge ruled Edwards competent to proceed and sentenced him to four years’ probation after Edwards pleaded to throwing a missile into a vehicle, criminal mischief, and carrying a concealed firearm.
The defendant’s probation violation came six months after he was first sentenced.
