BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor STARKE— A 65-year-old woman was arrested for fraud after state investigators said she applied for a critical illness insurance policy after she had been diagnosed for breast cancer. Juanita Sanders Smith Profitt was arrested by Starke police on March 25. According to a Florida Department of Financial Services sworn affidavit, … Read more
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor LAKE BUTLER— A Lulu man told Union deputies that drones led him to break into a Lake Butler residence and watch television before falling asleep in a spare bedroom. Matthew Edward Odom, 46, was arrested by deputies on March 18 after a woman discovered the intruder snoozing in a bedroom … Read more
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor KEYSTONE HEIGHTS—Clay deputies arrested William James Costello, 38, of Immokalee Road on March 22 for cruelty toward a child. According to an arrest warrant affidavit, the child’s mother reported bruising on the 6-year-old after the boy visited his father over a weekend in January. The father sent a text message … Read more
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor STARKE—A judge determined that defendants in two Starke criminal cases were not competent to proceed. Robert Lee Shipes and Daniel Clifton Dail were ordered to appear at competency reviews later this year. Shipes was arrested by Starke police on Sept. 16, 2021, for shoplifting televisions and other merchandise from a … Read more
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor STARKE— The State Attorney’s Office dropped charges against Mario Lavon Hankerson and Frank Harold Warring. Hankerson was arrested on July 1, 2021, for the distribution of cocaine. Warring was arrested by Bradford deputies on June 29, 2021, for trafficking in methamphetamine, possession of drug equipment and possession of a firearm … Read more
March 12 through March 18 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 … Read more
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor STARKE— Starke police arrested a 67-year-old man after they said he attacked a 34-year-old Lawtey woman at a Starke self-storage facility. Alvin Jerome Fayson was arrested for assault, battery and false imprisonment on Monday, March 13. According to court papers the incident occurred on Saturday, March 12 at Allen’s Attic … Read more
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor STARKE— Justin Anthony Garrison, 22 was sentenced to five years in prison after pleading to 29 counts of viewing child pornography and one count of using a two-way communications device while committing a felony. According to court papers, on Nov. 29, 2021, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children … Read more
March 4 through March 11 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 … Read more
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor GREEN COVE SPRINGS— Robert Abel, 55, was arrested Sunday in the parking lot of the Clay County Sheriff’s Office after phoning threats to the sheriff and driving to the agency’s headquarters armed and with additional weapons in his vehicle. The defendant told deputies that he was working for the President … Read more
