No charges will be filed in what police initially described as a fatal hit-and-run crash that killed a Jacksonville woman in October. The woman was hit by the back of a tractor-trailer and then dragged down the road as the driver left a Jacksonville parking lot, according to a report…
Nearly three months after a crash that killed his friend, a Jacksonville man was arrested on felony charges in connection with the fatal wreck. The man was arrested this month and charged with two serious felonies – DUI manslaughter and vehicular homicide, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union.…
A suspected bank robber was shot in the face by a former police officer who chased him in his car. The defendant was seen running from a St. Johns County bank and the former officer, who was in the drive-thru lane, started chasing him in his car, according to a…
Police arrested a Jacksonville corrections officer this month, following a tip that he received money to smuggle items into the jail for an inmate. The investigation began with a tip in August and is still ongoing, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union. The corrections officer is accused of…
A Clay County middle school teacher is facing two felony charges after police say he stole a gun from a car and then went to an ex-girlfriend’s home. Police said the man got the gun and went to the woman’s home, where he knocked on the door and argued with…
Police are looking for two drivers accused of racing each other down Interstate 95, causing one wreck that touched off several more – including one that killed an elderly man and critically injured his wife. The series of accidents allegedly began when two cars were weaving in and out of…
A Jacksonville police officer was charged last month with child abuse, accused of spanking her son with a plastic hanger. The incident was reported to police after the child told someone at his school, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union. The school official is legally required to notify…
A jury did not agree with the state’s assertion that a man who shot his sister’s ex-boyfriend as part of an ongoing dispute was guilty of first-degree murder. Instead, the jury convicted the man last month on a lesser charge of manslaughter, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union.…
A driver running through a red light triggered a traffic stop that now has him facing several decades behind bars on felony drug charges. Once police stopped the car, the officer said the driver struggled to get his license and the driver was sweating profusely, according to a report on…
A Georgia man with four previous DUI convictions on his record was sentenced to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to two felonies in connection with a fatal crash. The driver was attempting to turn into an apartment complex, but turned into the path of a motorcyclist, according to…