OUR MISSION
To promote public safety by enforcing the criminal laws of the State of Florida; to uphold, protect and defend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights; to hold those who violate our laws accountable for their actions; to ensure that victims of crime have a voice in the criminal justice system; and to be good stewards of taxpayer resources.
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ROAD RAGE INCIDENT LANDS FELON IN PRISON
(Lake County, FL) Last week, jurors rendered a guilty verdict in the courtroom of the Honorable Judge Heidi Davis during the trial of 42-year-old Anthony Stephon Calloway. Jurors were out for deliberations just 45 minutes before finding Calloway guilty as charged for the felony offenses of Possession of a Firearm
WATSON FOUND GUILTY AND SENTENCED TO LIFE FOR 2024 MURDER OF MAN OUTSIDE MIDDLE SCHOOL
(Marion County, FL) Yesterday evening, a jury found 36-year-old Roderick Kelvin Watson Jr. guilty of Premeditated First-Degree Murder following a school shooting in Ocala that resulted in the death of 32-year-old Joseph James Jaurez Coles. Following the verdict, Judge Barbara Kissner-Kwatkosky sentenced Watson to Life in prison. “A school campus
CONVICTED FELON FOUND GUILTY OF ATTEMPTED MURDER
(Hernando County, FL) Last week, jurors delivered their verdict in a 2020 attempted murder case. After a few hours of deliberation, jurors found 51-year-old Galvin Bernard Smith, a multi-time convicted felon, guilty of Attempted First-Degree Murder with a Firearm. Smith will be sentenced at a later time, as the court
