STARKE—Police used store video and a license plate reader on the Starke Bypass to identify a man accused of stealing a television and microwave from Walmart. Kevin Aurther Ratliff, 36, of Melrose, was arrested on December 28 for the February 25 offense of grand theft. According to a warrant affidavit, a Walmart loss prevention officer … Read more
The following individuals were arrested recently 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 Leanne Helen … Read more
STARKE—A 25-year-old Starke man was sentenced to 6 months’ probation after pleading to grabbing a garden hose from a Walmart shelf and then asking for a refund on the item. I’van Tyrese Sargeant pleaded to petit theft. According to an arrest report, a store loss prevention officer told Starke police that the defendant entered the … Read more
STARKE— A 41-year-old Starke man was sentenced to 12 months’ probation after pleading to stalking his ex-wife and making a threatening hand gesture toward the woman’s boyfriend. Beau Jeffrey Whidden pleaded to stalking and violating a domestic violence injunction. According to an arrest report, the boyfriend of the defendant’s ex-wife told a Bradford deputy that … Read more
STARKE—A man who was pulled over in Citrus County after a deputy heard loud music from his SUV was sentenced in Bradford County to 20 months in prison after he pleaded to a probation violation. Dickie Lynn Tribble, 48, was arrested in Bradford County in 2022 for driving with a suspended or revoked license and … Read more
STARKE— Edward Lowell Canada Jr. was arrested for DUI on April 20, 2019, after he crashed his white Chevrolet Cruze into a curb and sidewalk near Starke’s Colley Road and South Water Street. A Starke police officer wrote in an arrest report that the defendant had two previous DUI convictions. In June 2019, County Judge … Read more
STARKE—A Miami man was sentenced to 4-and-a-half years after pleading to biting a correctional officer’s thumb while the immate knew he was HIV-positive. Thirty-seven-year-old Travis T. Scott was serving a 25-year sentence at Florida State Prison for a 2011, armed burglary in Miami when he was accused of attacking the officer. According to Department of … Read more
STARKE— Benjamin Ozer Benoit will spend the next 17 months in prison after pleading to felony battery-repeat offender on December 13. Starke police arrested the 42-year-old Church Street resident on August 20 after a woman said he attacked her with a guitar. According to an arrest report, police found the woman on the floor covered … Read more
STARKE—A 54-year-old Starke man was sentenced to 30 months’ probation after pleading to pushing and choking his ex. Walter Jarrod Davis pleaded to felony domestic battery by strangulation. According to a July 18 arrest report, the victim told deputies that after a one-month relationship, she and the defendant had been apart for three weeks and … Read more
The following individuals were arrested recently 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 Robert Dwayne … Read more
