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
On August 5, Shalom Ishrael Maurol Barnes, 20, was transferred into the custody of the Florida Department of Corrections to serve a seven-year prison sentence for child sex crimes.
On October 13,
Last month, prosecutors with the Eighth Judicial Circuit State Attorney’s Office (SAO8) granted Marvin “MJ” Gamble, 33, a pretrial diversion in his child abuse case. The incident occurred at St. Francis house,
