Last week, Aakel Jabari Sims, 29, walked into the Alachua County Criminal Courthouse prepared to take a plea deal that would have him spend nearly two years in prison for aggravated assault with
Last month, a jury acquitted Drevon Parker of attempted second degree murder, attempted felony murder and armed trespassing.
State Attorney Brian Kramer's Office of the Eighth Judicial Circuit had alleged that
Sunday evening, Alachua Police Department officers arrested Benjamin Eugene McDaniel, 62, a designated sexual predator who absconded from the Florida Sexual Offender/Predator Registry. An absconder is defined as a sexual offender or
Last week, Chief District Judge Allen Winsor sentenced 60-year-old Kenneth Wetherington to 14 months in federal prison after he pled guilty to possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
Wetherington was
Wesley Robert Fickett, 46, has been sentenced to ten years in prison after being convicted of two counts of lewd/lascivious battery against a victim 12-16.
Fickett started sexually abusing the victim
