The Tributary

2 weeks ago | jaxtrib.org | Nate Monroe

A little less than 24 hours after Susie Wiles, the chief of staff to President Donald J. Trump, blasted the proposed trade of 600 acres in the Guana River Wildlife Management Area to a private developer as an “outrageous” land grab in a statement to The Tributary, state officials said the idea had been pulled from consideration.

2 weeks ago | jaxtrib.org | Nichole Manna

The sergeant who was among nine guards suspended by Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters after a Duval County inmate was allegedly brutalized to death in April was reprimanded in 2021 after he pepper sprayed a restrained inmate at close range. That is the second instance of a corrections officer involved in the controversial in-custody death found to have a black mark on their record, according to The Tributary’s review of partial disciplinary histories provided by the agency.

2 weeks ago | jaxtrib.org | Nate Monroe

Susie Wiles, President Donald J. Trump’s chief of staff, blasted a controversial and fast-tracked proposal backed by Florida regulators that would trade 600 acres of sensitive and prized public land in St. Johns County to a private developer, calling the proposed swap “outrageous” and a “wolf in sheep’s clothing” in a statement to The Tributary on Sunday.

1 month ago | jaxtrib.org | Nichole Manna

Lawyers for Kenneth “Kip” Hartley, a Jacksonville Death Row inmate convicted of murder more than 30 years ago on the word of a known liar and three jailhouse snitches, are fighting to pry loose records they hope will undo the case, which was the subject of a recent investigation by The Tributary called “Cold-Blooded.” And in another legal development, Hartley’s co-defendant Sylvester “Duck” Johnson, whose conviction and life sentence hinged largely on the same testimony, filed a motion in...

1 month ago | jaxtrib.org | Nichole Manna

Doctors at UF Health who evaluated a broken, bruised and unresponsive Charles Faggart after he’d arrived from the Duval County jail on April 7 concluded he did not have fentanyl in his system or suffer a seizure, contradicting key details released by the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office about the controversial in-custody death.