BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor STARKE— FHP troopers arrested a 20-year-old North Carolina man for driving a car that resembled an FHP patrol vehicle. Alexander Robert Thompson was arrested for fraud-impersonation on Oct. 30. According to an arrest report, the Jacksonville Regional Communication Center issued a be-on-the-lookout for an unmarked black and tan FHP vehicle … Read more
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor STARKE— The mother of a 3-year-old girl who died of a fentanyl overdose was sentenced to 19 months in prison, while the victim’s father was sentenced to 364 days in jail. A’Liyah Janae’ Murrah was pronounced dead at Starke ER on Aug. 26, 2020, shortly after Bradford EMS transported her … Read more
Oct. 23 through Oct. 29 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 … Read more
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor LAWTEY— Bradford deputies arrested a 35-year-old Lawtey man after he trespassed on private property, then fired a handgun from his truck after being asked to leave. According to an arrest report, Wesley Nathan Bailey was arrested on Sunday, Aug. 24 for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, discharging a firearm in public or on residential … Read more
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor STARKE— A Lawtey man was sentenced to 14 months in prison after pleading to three cases of dealing in stolen property. Lester Wannis Walker, 47, pleaded no contest to the three offenses that occurred on Jan. 13, Feb. 9 and Feb. 22. In the Jan. 13 offense, Bradford deputies assisted the Clay County … Read more
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor STARKE— A 41-year-old Starke man was sentenced to three years in prison after he failed to seek medical treatment for his son who was injured in an ATV crash. Dewayne Curtis Henderson pleaded no contest to the May 1 offense of child neglect with great bodily harm. According to an arrest report, Bradford deputies investigated the incident after a call … Read more
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor STARKE— A 30-year-old Gainesville woman was sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading to stealing items from a storage shed in Brooker and kicking deputies while she was being arrested. Natosha Leann Walton pleaded no contest to the Aug. 3 offenses of battery on a law enforcement officer, criminal mischief with property damage, burglary of an unoccupied dwelling, resisting an officer, fraud-impersonation and … Read more
Oct. 16 through Oct. 22 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. … Read more
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor STARKE— A 33-year old Starke man was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading to hitting two children riding bicycles in Lawtey and then leaving the scene. Bjee Martin Fisher pleaded no contest to the April 26 offenses of failing to remain at a crash site involving serious bodily injury. According to a Lawtey police report, Fisher was driving … Read more
Oct. 9 through Oct. 15 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 … Read more
