Sunday morning, officers with the Alachua region of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission arrested Charles Earl Baker, 64, and James Richard Fender, 60, on charges of littering exceeding 500 pounds, a
15-year-old Ke’Mani Hill was scheduled to take her murder case to jury selection yesterday, but instead she pleaded no contest to manslaughter with a firearm, a lesser included offense. Taking
On January 23, 2026, Lonnie Joe Ward, 49, entered a no contest plea agreement for a misdemeanor battery charge and was sentenced to one year of probation.
Alachua County Sheriff’s Office deputies
Between August 2025 and April 2026, Michael Scott Brannon, 40, was sentenced in a number of misdemeanor domestic abuse cases spanning Alachua and Duval Counties.
Case 1:
On March 1, 2025, Alachua County
On March 25, 2026, Xzavier Taylor Hawkins, 21, was sentenced to 12 years in prison with a ten-year minimum mandatory following a no contest plea and conviction of attempted second-degree murder.
