The rate that children are being treated as adults in our criminal justice system has plummeted since State Attorney, Melissa Nelson, has taken over the office. According to an article in the Florida Times Union, the rate that minors are prosecuted as adults has fallen by forty three percent. The…
The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office arrested two minors earlier this week after a fight at Ribault High School, according to an article in the Florida Times Union. A fourteen year-old and thirteen year-old boy were arrested for battery on a school official, which is a felony in Jacksonville. A third child,…
First Coast High School has had an dramatic increase in weapon related arrests at their school this month. According to an article on News4Jax, there have been 5 weapon related arrests at the school in just under a month. The most recent case was a student who brought a gun…
Jacksonville police announced that they have arrested more than one juvenile in the murder of a Duval County cab driver late last year, according to an article in the Florida Times Union. The victim was found shot in his vehicle the night of January 30th. These juveniles will most likely…
Prosecutors have changed course and are now charging a 15-year-old boy as an adult in four fires police say were deliberately set in a Jacksonville neighborhood. Fire officials were investigating the fires to three vacant homes and a car in a Jacksonville neighborhood and told police a person had been…
Prosecutors have charged a 15-year-old as an adult in the shooting death of a Jacksonville man. The teen and two others were not invited to a March party in a Jacksonville apartment, but showed up anyway and soon got into an argument with the victim, according to a report in…
What school and police officials say was a random check in a Jacksonville high school classroom turned up a loaded gun in the sock of a 16-year-old boy. The student was arrested on the felony charge of bringing a weapon onto a school campus and was ordered to be held…
A Clay County legislator has again filed a bill to bring the state’s sentencing of juveniles in line with two Supreme Court rulings that have altered that landscape in recent years. One 2010 ruling eliminated life sentences for juveniles in cases other than murder and a second two years later…
Two teens were arrested last week on a slew of theft and more serious charges after a failed attempt to flee from St. Johns County police. A 15-year-old and a 13-year-old were initially sniffed out by a man who saw the two teens inside his van and pressed the panic…
A 16-year-old St. Johns County juvenile inmate likely made his stay significantly longer after he was caught about 200 miles away the same day. Syllas McMillan was caught after he took a cab from St. Johns County to Inverness and then skipped out on the $275 cab fare, according to…