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
‘Healer’ caught with Suboxone strips
Jodi Bottomley, of Zainsville, Ohio, was arrested by Bradford deputies on June 10 for possession of a controlled substance without a prescription.
According to an arrest report, the 51-year-old was a passenger in a vehicle flagged by a license plate reader as stolen. Deputy Hayley Flynn wrote in the report that when she stopped the vehicle, “Jodi stated that she was a ‘healer’ and was helping her friend, the driver, Justin.”
“Jodi advised that she has Buprenorphine and Naloxone (suboxone) strips in her purse but does not have a prescription,” the officer added.
The defendant subsequently consented to a search of her purse. Flynn found the strips, which are used in the treatment of opiate addiction.
Breakup leads to stabbing
Carla Cray, 38, of Starke, was arrested by Bradford deputies on June 10 for aggravated battery.
Deputy Michael Gillick wrote in an arrest report that after responding to a call about someone bleeding at a Florida Street residence shortly after midnight, he found the victim with a stab wound to her upper right back shoulder.
During the investigation, the defendant told another officer that she wanted to talk to Gillick.
“Post Miranda, Cray stated that she and (the victim) had been in a relationship for the past 6 years,” reported the deputy. “Cray stated that they had broken up and (the victim) was now dating a man. As a result, Cray was jealous, and it caused issues between the two.”
Gillick added that, according to Cray, the victim entered the Florida Street home and started an argument with her.
“When asked who stabbed (the victim), Cray stated that she got a knife and stabbed her,” Gillick wrote.
The officer later recovered the weapon in the defendant’s purse.
Free to leave, winds up in jail
Shelton Dell, 48, of Starke, was arrested by Bradford deputies on June 12 for possession of cocaine.
According to an arrest report, the defendant was a passenger in a vehicle deputies stopped, in which the driver did not have a valid license, and the tag on the vehicle was registered to another car.
“While speaking with Shelton,” wrote Detective Hunter Redding in the report, “I advised him that he was free to leave the traffic stop; however, he did not and asked to speak to (the driver). While Shelton was speaking with (the driver),” Det. Flynn was conducting a tow inventory of the vehicle.”
During the inventory, Flynn found a scale in the vehicle’s center console with cocaine residue on the device.
“At this time,” Redding reported, “Shelton approached me and asked if he could have Dallas’s cell phone. Due to the scale being located in the vehicle, I conducted a search of Shelton’s person.”
Redding wrote that Dell became very agitated and gave the officer
a green leafy substance, within a plastic bag, from his right shorts pocket.
“While continuing the search of Shelton’s person,” the detective reported, “I located a bag in his lower right cargo pocket which contained multiple pieces of a rocklike substance. Based on my training and experience. I know this substance to be crack cocaine. Shelton was then placed under arrest. A field test of the substance was conducted, which yielded a presumptive positive for cocaine and came to a gross package weight of 8.6 grams.”
Broke into her home while she was in the shower
Philip Dennison, 44, of Gainesville, was arrested by Bradford deputies on June 10 for burglary with assault or battery.
According to an arrest report, the victim told Deputy David Hall that after dropping her kids off and returning to her Pleasant Grove area home, she got in the shower and heard a knock at the door.
“(I) hurried to get out and get dressed,” wrote Deputy Tyler Oliver, quoting the victim. “He was in my living room, and I told him to leave, and he kept coming towards me. He said I was just like Tiffany and grabbed my arms and pushed me into the wall.”
The victim added that a nail in the wall tore her shirt. The intruder then entered a nearby bedroom, and the woman ran out of the mobile home, called a neighbor, and waited for police.
Hall reported that he found a tear in the victim’s shirt and observed damage to the wall.
Oliver added that on his way to the scene, he saw and stopped a vehicle that matched the description of the defendant’s Nissan.
“Upon pulling up to the vehicle in my patrol vehicle,” the deputy wrote, “a white male subject placed his hands out the driver’s side of the vehicle.
“I asked the subject if his name was Philip, to which he responded ‘yes,’” Oliver reported. “Philip then spontaneously uttered that he knew he shouldn’t have gone over there.”
The deputy added that Dennison denied entering the woman’s home.
Jay Fournier, 24, of Fruitland Park, was arrested by Bradford deputies on June 13 for a probation violation.
Gabriel Gonzalez, 20, of Starke, was arrested by Bradford deputies on June 11 for child cruelty and lewd and lascivious behavior.
Danwwandre Green, 25, of Starke, was arrested by Bradford deputies on June 11 for a probation violation.
Hid meth in bra
Tanya Green, 50, of Starke, was arrested by Bradford deputies on June 10 for possession of drug equipment, possession of amphetamine, and possession of drugs.
According to an arrest report, Green was a passenger in a Ford F-150 pulled over on County Road 229 for an inoperative headlight.
While the driver was detained in the back of Deputy Mark Juen’s patrol vehicle, the officer received consent from Green to search the car.
“During my vehicle search,” Juen wrote, “in a pink bag I located an orange pill container containing 2 orange pills imprinted 970 which was later verified by drugs.com as Buprenorphine hydrochloride naloxone hydrochloride which is a controlled substance, and a small plastic baggie containing a white crystal-like substance that I know to be methamphetamine.”
The deputy said he asked Green about the pills, and she responded that she had a prescription for the medication, but she did not have the prescription with her.
According to Jeun, Green later handed over to Deputy Michael Gillick, 22 grams of methamphetamine, which she had hidden inside her bra.
Ex-boyfriend terrifies Lawtey woman
Robert Hatcher, 36, of Middleburg, was arrested by Bradford deputies on June 12 for aggravated stalking.
According to a May 20 complaint, the Lawtey-area victim told deputies her ex-boyfriend came to her house and started an argument.
“(The victim) advised that Robert stated that he knows that (the victim) has a new boyfriend,” wrote Deputy Paul Moody, Jr. in the complaint. “(The victim) tried to tell Robert she had no one staying with her and was not talking to anyone.”
The woman added that after Hatcher looked through her Snapchat messages to confirm she was not communicating with anyone new, he tried to take her phone away.
“(The victim) advised she demanded her phone back, and Robert started to go out the door,” Moody wrote. “(The victim) screamed for help outside of the residence. (She) then stated that Robert grew more angry.”
The 34-year-old added that when Hatcher drew his fist back as if he was going to strike her, she fell over the couch and wound up lying on her back with the defendant standing over her with clenched fists.
“(The victim) advised that she stated that she was going to call the cops,” Moody continued. “Robert then gave (the victim) her phone back, and she called 911. Robert was not on the scene when I arrived.”
Moody reported that during the interview, the woman was shaking and lost her breath, exhibiting the emotional and physical stress of fearing for her life.
“(The victim) informed me that Robert was in a motorcycle club and they would come after (the victim) and kill her,” the deputy wrote.
Robert Herndon, 59, of Lawtey, was arrested by Bradford deputies on June 9 for a parole violation.
Steven Jones, 30, of St. Augustine, was arrested by Bradford deputies on June 11 for an out-of-county warrant.
Thomas Marshall, 46, of Starke, was arrested by Bradford deputies on June 13 for possession of drugs.
Tried to steal boat motor
Joshua Matthews, 41, of Lawtey, was arrested by Bradford deputies on June 9 for trespassing, larceny, burglary, and withholding support.
According to an arrest report, one witness told deputies she observed Matthews and Thomas Cole Smith attempting to remove a motor from a boat parked in the backyard of a Southeast 21st Avenue home, between Starke and Theressa.
Matthews told the witness that he obtained permission from a family member of the boat’s owner to take the outboard.
The witness said she went home to get her cell phone, call the police, and notify family members about the encounter. When she returned to the scene, she saw a family member and deputies looking for Smith, who had run into the woods after being confronted.
Deputies later located Matthews at a County Road 225 residence and Smith on a County Road 100A property. Smith told deputies it was Matthews’s idea to steal the motor.
Curtis McCloud, 45, of Starke, was arrested by Bradford deputies on June 7 for resisting an officer and a probation violation.
Brittany Milligan, 36, of Starke, was arrested by Bradford deputies on June 13 for battery.
Justin Moore, 44, of Zainsville, Ohio, was arrested by Bradford deputies on Jun 10 for an out-of-county warrant.
Ax attack results in collapsed lung, fractured ribs
Andrew Paris, 19, of Starke, was arrested by Bradford deputies on June 10 for aggravated battery.
According to an arrest report, the victim told deputies he visited his aunt on the morning of Friday, June 6, to have coffee with her, adding that he lives next door to the woman between Starke and Theressa.
“While in the kitchen with (the aunt),” wrote Deputy Logan Hough in the report, “(the aunt’s roommate) came into the kitchen and began yelling at him for knocking on the door too early in the morning.”
During an ensuing argument between the roommate and the victim, Paris entered the kitchen holding an ax.
“Andrew then said to (the victim), wrote Hough, “’You see this ax, next time you talk to her like that I am going to sink this ax in your skull.’”
“(The victim) stated that he looked and saw Andrew holding an ax, so he went to stand up. As (the victim) stood up, Andrew hit him in the back with the ax, knocking him down.”
The victim and defendant then struggled over the weapon, and Paris went to the ground, allowing the victim to break free and flee outside. The aunt took him to a hospital, and on the way to HCA Starke ER, instructed her nephew not to report the incident to law enforcement. However, after discovering the victim’s hospitalization, the man’s stepmother reported the incident to the sheriff’s office. The stepmother said the victim was transferred to North Florida Regional in Gainesville and then to UF Health Shands.
Hough wrote that he met with the victim, who suffered a collapsed lung and fractured ribs from the attack. The deputy added that he observed a five to six-inch laceration in the victim’s back, with the injury held together by staples.
Hough wrote that he interviewed Paris and that the 19-year-old said he was tired of the victim and intended to scare him with the ax.
“(The victim) then started taunting him, saying, ‘I know you’re not going to do anything’,” wrote Hough, quoting the defendant. “Andrew stated that he then swung it halfway towards (the victim’s) back while (the victim) was standing up. Andrew stated that it then hit him in the back.”
The victim’s aunt told Hough she saw Paris hit her nephew with the ax, “but stated that he didn’t mean to hit him.”
Rafael Rodriguez, 43, was arrested by Lawtey police on June 12 for driving with a suspended or revoked license and possession of drug equipment.
Thomas Cole, 27, of Starke, was arrested by Bradford deputies on June 9 for burglary, possession of drugs, and trespassing.
Charles Sodek, 57, of Starke, was arrested by Bradford deputies on June 8 for battery.
Dallas Sylvester, 51, of Starke, was arrested by Bradford deputies on June 12 for driving with a suspended or revoked license, attaching a license plate not assigned, and possession of cocaine.
Robert Terrell, 55, of Starke, was arrested by Bradford deputies on June 10 for driving with a suspended or revoked license.
Blakely Trueblood, 27, of Brooker, was arrested by Bradford deputies on June 13 for driving with a suspended or revoked license, fleeing and eluding, resisting an officer, and a probation violation.
Cierra Young, 21, of Interlachen, was arrested by Bradford deputies on June 10 for failure to appear.
Union
Ysland Argote, 30, a Department of Corrections inmate, was arrested by Union deputies on June 10 for smuggling contraband into a prison.
Sahara Canada, 20, of Raiford, was arrested by Union deputies on June 9 for failure to appear.
Jordan Ditullio, 19, of Lake Butler, was arrested by Union deputies on June 13 for a probation violation.
Jamari Jean, 27, a Department of Corrections inmate, was arrested by Union deputies on June 11 for battery by a person detained in prison.
Eric Knight, 36, of Lake Butler, was arrested by Union deputies on June 10 for conditional release violations.
Bridget May, 31, was arrested by Union deputies on June 1 for an out-of-county warrant.
Daniel Shuler, 21, of Lake Butler, was arrested by Union deputies on June 13 for a probation violation.
Clay
Bernadine De Jonge, 49, of Keystone Heights, was arrested by Clay deputies on June 11 for child abuse without great bodily harm.
According to an arrest report, the defendant pulled the victim’s hair and hit the victim several times.
Arrested after taking mother to hospital
Lavena Hill, 63, of Keystone Heights, was arrested by Clay deputies on June 8 for violating an injunction for protection against domestic violence.
According to an arrest report, the defendant’s sister called law enforcement to report that Hill was at her parents’ home, violating the injunction.
Deputy David Justice wrote that when he arrived at the Holman Road residence, “I made contact with the defendant, and she spontaneously uttered ‘I know, I am not supposed to be here.’”
Hill told the officer that her mother had been sick for a couple of days and wanted to go to the hospital.
“The defendant came to the residence, picked up (her parents), and transported them to the Emergency Room in Starke,” wrote Justice. “I asked Lavena why she did not call Public Safety to transport her mother to the hospital and keep her from violating the Injunction. Lavena replied that it was not an option, they are her parents, and she is willing to go to jail for them.”
Haley McMinn, 23, of Keystone Heights, was arrested by Clay deputies on June 13 for domestic battery.
Dale Ryan, 79, of Keystone Heights, was arrested by Clay deputies on June 9 for grand theft.
Anthony Terry, 45, of Keystone Heights, was arrested by Clay deputies on June 11 for child abuse without great bodily harm.
According to an arrest report, the defendant pulled the victim’s hair and hit the victim several times.
