Scott Butler

6 days ago | yahoo.com | Scott Butler

Prior to Charles Faggart's combative behavior that corrections officers reported while in custody before his death, he had only one other documented disciplinary issue during eight previous stints in jail, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office. Jail records show the 31-year-old who died three days after a struggle with jailers had eight other local arrests since 2015, all misdemeanors. During that time, the Sheriff's Office documented one incident following his Nov.

1 week ago | jacksonville.com | Scott Butler

A new suspect has been arrested in the December death of Jacksonville store owner Ilson Kim. One of the original suspects, Tashina Dobbins, pleaded guilty to petty theft but failed to appear for sentencing. David Frederick Pulliam Jr. was arrested and charged with petty theft and resisting while committing theft. Kim was struck by a fleeing vehicle while attempting to stop shoplifters at her store.

1 week ago | jacksonville.com | Scott Butler

Two suspects in the shooting death of 7-year-old Breon Allen Jr. are now charged in the murder of Valondia Norris. Dannel Larkins and Keith Johnson are facing charges related to Norris's death, which occurred in April 2024. Two of the six young men arrested in the gang-related shooting death of 7-year-old Breon Allen Jr. have now been charged in a second shooting death of a 43-year-old woman about a year ago.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Scott Butler

Three months after stunning everybody with the words "false testimony" and being cut off by the judge, Henry Tenon was back in a Duval County courtroom Tuesday. Tenon, who was moved to the Nassau County jail on Feb. 26, told attorneys in a private meeting after the admission that he denied being threatened, paid or harassed. Judge London Kite said Tuesday's status hearing was to make sure there was no need to further address what was said on Jan. 13.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Scott Butler

A jury took a little more than hour last week to find a Jacksonville man guilty of a 2023 triple murder, including his grandparents, according to court records. Ja-Darrius Jashawn Jones was 18 at the time he gunned down his grandparents, 58-year-old Uneeda Voncile Hardy and 63-year-old Gregory Joel Merritt, and friend Luther Lewis Williams, 44, at the family home on Bridges Road near Dunn Avenue. The family had previously told television news that it was over some kind of feud.