Staff report A 46-year-old Lake Butler man was sentenced to four years’ probation and 296 days served for throwing a rock through a car window and other charges. Dexter Dewin Edwards pleaded to throwi…
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LAKE BUTLER— A Lake Butler man was sentenced to life plus 70 years after pleading to shooting three people and killing one on Southwest 1st Terrace last year. Judge Mitchel Bishop sentenced Anthony Ly…
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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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The Union County Sheriff’s Office said it shuttered a Main Street smoke shop and arrested a worker after the man admitted selling illegal narcotics to minors. Jay Rami, 19, of Gainesville was arrested…
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The Union County Sheriff’s Office and Sheriff Brad Whitehead arrested a 34-year-old Alachua man for burglarizing the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on State Road 238 west of Lake Butler.…
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A Bradford County man was sentenced to one year and one week in state prison after pleading to stealing a case of liquor from a local retailer. Kelvin Hamm Sr., 59, pleaded to the February 23 offense…
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Two Brooker men arrested during the same Bradford County Sheriff’s Office drug operation and charged with similar crimes received vastly different sentences. Clem David Prescott, 70, and David Bridges…
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Starke police said workers at Capital City Bank stopped a man from cashing a fraudulent $1,500 check, resulting in the arrest of the 38-year-old Jacksonville defendant. Steven Randall Dodson was arres…
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A Bradford County man protested to deputies following complaints by his neighbors that he had been urinating in his driveway, telling the officers: “I have been peeing in my yard for 20 years.” Bradfo…
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