1 year in jail after flunking probation

1 year in jail after flunking probation

  • January 3, 2024
  • Dan Hildebran

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…

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HIV-positive inmate bit officer’s thumb

HIV-positive inmate bit officer’s thumb

  • January 3, 2024
  • Dan Hildebran

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 serv…

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Prison for attacking woman with guitar

Prison for attacking woman with guitar

  • January 3, 2024
  • Dan Hildebran

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 A…

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Probation for choking woman after breakup

Probation for choking woman after breakup

  • January 3, 2024
  • Dan Hildebran

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 t…

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Recent arrests in Bradford, Union and Clay

Recent arrests in Bradford, Union and Clay

  • December 26, 2023
  • Dan Hildebran

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 i…

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Man arrested for shooting hunting dogs

Man arrested for shooting hunting dogs

  • December 19, 2023
  • Dan Hildebran

BY DAN HILDEBRAN General manager LAKE BUTLER— Florida wildlife officers arrested a 22-year-old Lake Butler man after he was accused of shooting three hunting dogs, killing two. Lance Anthony Thornton…

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Recent arrests in Bradford, Union and Clay

  • December 19, 2023
  • Dan Hildebran

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 i…

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Bond revoked for Lawtey road rage defendant

Bond revoked for Lawtey road rage defendant

  • December 19, 2023
  • Dan Hildebran

BY DAN HILDEBRAN General manager A judge revoked the bond of a Lake City man who was accused in July of shooting at a driver north of Lawtey. On July 17, Christopher Mark Nicklas, 33, was arrested for…

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