BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor KEYSTONE HEIGHTS— Mayor Karen Lake summarized the city’s accomplishments in 2021 and laid out her goals for the upcoming year in her Jan. 1 podcast of The Lake View. Lake said that some of the municipality’s accomplishments in 2021 were the South Lawrence Boulevard street scape project, a new food … Read more
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor KEYSTONE HEIGHTS— One of the deputies now patrolling the Lake Region for the Clay County Sheriff’s Office brings with him a wide range of experience, including a stint as chief of police for Camp Blanding. However, he said one of his biggest advantages is his upbringing in a small eastern … Read more
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor KEYSTONE HEIGHTS— Clay deputies arrested a 38-year-old High Ridge Estates woman on Sunday, Jan. 9 after she allegedly stabbed her boyfriend in the left forearm with a pair of scissors. Ashley Amber Prosser was booked into the Clay County Jail for aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. According to an … Read more
Defendant: ‘It was a joke’ BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor STARKE— A Bradford County man who told deputies his sexual texts to a teenager “was a joke” was arrested for molesting the girl on Monday, Jan. 9. Jason Kelly Wilkes, 38, was booked into the Bradford County jail for lewd and lascivious behavior, using a … Read more
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor GREEN COVE SPRINGS— The Clay County Sheriff’s Office awarded a Keystone Heights-based deputy with the agency’s Chief’s Award in December. Deputy Dimitri Santiago played a central role in the arrest of two youths accused of vandalizing the city’s beach park last September. Santiago, a Keystone Heights-area resident, said that due … Read more
Joseph Waid of Clay County Schools Police patrols Keystone Heights Elementary School BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor KEYSTONE HEIGHTS— Joseph Waid said the best part about his job as the school resource officer at Keystone Heights elementary School is it allows him to shape the future. The 20-year Navy veteran describes himself as a military … Read more
Brittany Dorman: high school resource officer BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor KEYSTONE HEIGHTS— Brittany Dorman’s primary job is to patrol the campus of Keystone Heights Junior-Senior High School, watching out for threats and intervening when trouble starts. However, she said her most important work occurs in her office, when students come to her after a … Read more
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor BROOKER— Bradford deputies arrested a 37-year-old Gainesville man after he fled from them in a stolen vehicle and crashed the Mercury Zepher into a yard where children were playing. Daniel Smith Griffis was arrested by Bradford deputies on Jan. 4 for hit and run, criminal mischief with property damage, dealing … Read more
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor STARKE— Khalya Aricia Coleman, 19, was arrested by Starke police on Jan. 3 for battery on medical personnel. According to an arrest report, the defendant injured several nurses at Starke ER. Witnesses told arresting officer Kaleb T. Dockery that while receiving treatment, the defendant began acting erratically, pulled out her … Read more
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor LAKE BUTLER— Jacob Daniel Briggs, 20, of Melrose was arrested by Union deputies on Jan. 2 for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, resisting an officer and disorderly intoxication. According to an arrest report, a resident of Santa Fe Mobile Home Park in Lake Butler called 911 after the defendant … Read more
