The following individuals were recently arrested by local law enforcement officers in Bradford, Union, or Clay (Keystone Heights area) counties. All defendants are considered innocent until convicted in a court or until pleading guilty or no contest. Information in this report is from law enforcement agencies and court documents, which are public records. Bradford Triniti…
The following individuals were recently arrested by local law enforcement officers in Bradford, Union, or Clay (Keystone Heights area) counties. All defendants are considered innocent until convicted in a court or until pleading guilty or no contest. Information in this report is from law enforcement agencies and court documents, which are public records. Bradford Jailen…
BY DAN HILDEBRAN [email protected] A Melrose man who threatened a family member with a hammer last fall has been sentenced to two years in with the Department of Corrections followed by two years of probation after entering a no contest plea to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. According to the Bradford County Sheriff’s Office…
BY DAN HILDEBRAN [email protected] A 23-year-old Starke man was sentenced last month to more than four years with the Department of Corrections after pleading no contest to choking and imprisoning his live-in partner during a September altercation that also led to a criminal mischief charge stemming from an unusual encounter in a patrol vehicle. Dylan…
BY DAN HILDEBRAN [email protected] A Keystone Heights woman was sentenced to five years in state prison after pleading no contest to child abuse and neglect charges stemming from videos that showed her repeatedly striking, threatening, and berating her minor children. Elani Mae Harris, 29, entered her plea Feb. 25 in Bradford County Circuit Court before…
BY DAN HILDEBRAN [email protected] A 24-year-old man has been sentenced to probation and jail time after pleading no contest to domestic battery and a lesser charge stemming from a September 2025 incident in which a woman and child were left on the side of a rural highway. Tyrese Josiah Denegall, of Jasper, entered the plea…
BY DAN HILDEBRAN [email protected] A Starke woman who stabbed another woman in the back during a domestic dispute last summer was sentenced to 34 months in state prison after a jury deadlocked at trial and she subsequently entered a no-contest plea. Carla Patrice Cray, 39, of Florida Street, was sentenced Feb. 25 by Bradford County…
BY DAN HILDEBRAN [email protected] A Jacksonville man with a prior murder conviction was sentenced to five years in state prison after pleading no contest to a charge of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, court records show. Mitchell Evan Daughtry, 25, was sentenced Feb. 11 in Bradford County Circuit Court by Judge James…
The following individuals were recently arrested by local law enforcement officers in Bradford, Union, or Clay (Keystone Heights area) counties. All defendants are considered innocent until convicted in a court or until pleading guilty or no contest. Information in this report is from law enforcement agencies and court documents, which are public records. Bradford Jaquain…
BY DAN HILDEBRAN [email protected] A routine traffic stop on U.S. Highway 301 late Friday night led to the arrest of four Gainesville men, including two juveniles, after deputies discovered three stolen firearms in the vehicle, including two that the occupants had stolen just before the stop, the Bradford County Sheriff’s Office reported. At approximately 9:45…
