Bond set at $3.35 million BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor STARKE— A 21-year-old Starke man was arrested for 29 counts of possession of child pornography and an equal number of charges for using a two-way communications device while committing felonies. Justin Anthony Dwight Garrison is being held on a $3,350,000 bond. According to an arrest … Read more
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor STARKE— Bradford deputies arrested a former City of Lake Butler employee after determining he made over $1,700 in gasoline purchases for his personal vehicle using a city credit card. Michael Clayton Hall, 19, of Raiford was arrested by Bradford deputies on Nov. 26 for larceny and fraud. According to a … Read more
Nov. 20 through Nov. 26 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— A 31-year-old Starke woman was sentenced to a year in prison after pleading to an attempt to cash checks from her dead grandparents’ checking account. Priscilla Lynn Curtis pleaded no contest to the Aug. 25 offenses of uttering counterfeit checks and to fraud. According to an arrest report, VyStar … Read more
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor STARKE— A registered sex offender who was caught with drugs during a Starke Police Department raid at the Budget Inn was sentenced to 42 months in prison. Javares Lamar Barnes, 41, of Starke pleaded no contest to the July 26 offenses of failure of a sexual offender to report a … Read more
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor STARKE— The State Attorney’s Office dropped felony criminal mischief charges against a Georgia man accused of causing over $1,000 in damages to Starke’s Best Western. According to court papers, Antwaun De’shun Lewis, 43, of Loganville was accused of damaging furniture, linens, electronic equipment and bathroom fixtures at the motel on … Read more
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor STARKE— A 34-year-old Brooker man was sentenced to 18 months in prison for fighting with a deputy. Andrew Jackson Knight pleaded no contest to the April 22, 2021, offenses of battery on a law enforcement officer, battery on a person aged 65 years or older and resisting an officer with … Read more
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor STARKE— A 48-year-old Keystone Heights man was sentenced to four years in prison for selling drugs within 1,000 feet of Southside Elementary School, possession of methamphetamine and fentanyl and keeping a young girl in deplorable conditions. John Franklin Burns pleaded no contest to the Sept. 1 offenses of selling a … Read more
During the month of December, the Bradford County Sheriff’s Office will be conducting sobriety checkpoints in one or more of the following locations: U.S. Highway 301 and Market Road, S.R. 100 West, S.R. 100 East and Southeast 109th Street, Southeast S.R. 21,
Man attempts escape from Starke Police Department BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor STARKE— A 31-year-old Keystone Heights man tried to break out of Starke police headquarters after being told he was under arrest. Johnathan Joseph Brooker was arrested for battery, possession of a weapon by a felon, resisting and officer, possession of drugs and escape. … Read more
