March 19 through 25 The following individuals were arrested recently by local law enforcement officers in Bradford, Union or Clay (Keystone Heights-area) counties. All defendants are considered innoce…
Read MoreBY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor LAKE BUTLER— April trial dates have been set in Marion County for three Lake Butler men accused of abusing bears in the Ocala National Forest. Dustin Reddish, William T…
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BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor LAKE BUTLER— The Union County Sheriff’s Office said U.S. Marshals apprehended a man wanted for a March 19 murder in Lake Butler. Anthony George was arrested around 9 a.…
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BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor GREEN COVE SPRINGS— A Keystone Heights man was sentenced to 55 years in prison after pleading to killing his 25-year-old neighbor Joe Arthur Turner, 31, pleaded guilty…
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BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor STARKE— A woman who cleaned the home of a deceased elderly person was arrested after police determined she used a credit card linked to the victim’s account to withdraw…
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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 b…
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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. Mat…
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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,…
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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 a…
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