Crime this Week

Crime this Week

Baker County

Ex-girlfriend plans burglary

On June 27, Teresa Sullivan thought she heard her son had returned from the movies and called out to him. She was answered, not by her son, but by someone breaking into her Macclenny home. She immediately locked herself in the bathroom and called her brother JSO Investigator Dennis Sullivan who lives nearby.

Officers responded and found a male suspect wearing what appeared to be muticolored boxer shorts and a black cloth over his face climbing out of a bedroom window. When Deputy Curtis Ruise identified himself, the suspect pulled the cloth from his face and fled towards the rear of the residence. Deputy Ruise and Investigator Sullivan found two suspects attempting to leave in a red truck. They held them at gunpoint until other officers arrived.

Joseph John Lennon, 19, of Atlantic Beach and Adam Patrick Ostasz, 19, of Jacksonville were arrested at the scene. A third suspect Heather Nicole Ivec, 18, of Jacksonville, was taken into custody a short while later.

According to Investigator David Morgan the burglary was not a random act but planned by Ivec, a former girlfriend of Sullivan’s son. Ivec apparently knew that he was to be out of the house that night and planned to get Lennon and Ostasz to steal back gifts and personal items she had given her former boyfriend. She led her two accomplices to the house and then drove away to wait for them to meet her afterwards. But, she didn't realize that anyone else could be home.

Watch where you walk

A 23-year-old Sanderson man walking in the woods near his home told police he was attacked. The victim said he had walked up on some marijuana plants growing in the woods near CR 120 when Michael L. Burnsed, 47, of Sanderson, jumped out of the bushes and attacked him.

A search of the area located multiple planting pots and some bottles of water, but no marijuana plants.

When interviewed, Burnsed denied knowing about the plants and any involvement in the disturbance. Deputy Hilliard noticed multiple small scratches on Burnsed’s ankles and feet and he appeared to be extremely nervous talking to police.

Talk about a death wish...

A motorcyclist traveling east on U.S. 90 was pulled over after officers observed him attempting to pass in a no passing zone and almost causing a head-on accident.

The driver, Donald R. Patton, 47, of Jacksonville, was drinking a beer he had in his cup holder and failed several field sobriety tests. He was arrested for DUI.

Where there’s a wheel, there’s a way

Wilmar Bryant was driving west on Woodlawn Road when the lug nuts from the left rear wheel of his truck came off. The wheel wobbled and caused about $1500 damage to the wheel well of his truck before coming completely off and rolling off into the woods.

Mr. Bryant said that approximately two weeks ago he purchased four used tires and wheels for his truck and at the time, questioned whether they were using the wrong lug nuts.

Bradford County

Credit card theft

Sarah E. Moore, 24, of Brooker was arrested June 16 by Bradford Cpl. Thomas Sapp for grand theft and petit theft after stealing a purse and credit cards. Moore was also charged by Starke Sgt. William Brown with four counts of fraudulent use of credit card. Moore had used the victim's ATM card to withdraw currency in excess of $200. Total bond was set at $26,000.

Don’t run

Donald William Glenn, 77, of Bushnell was arrested June 22 by Cpl. Sapp for reckless driving and fleeing attempting to elude law enforcement officers. When deputies tried to stop Glenn for speeding, he accelerated even more, going over 100 mph. After a short chase heading northbound on U.S. 301, the vehicle was stopped. Glenn was later released on his own recognizance.
Kenneth L. Starling, 44, of Fanning Springs was arrested June 22 by Deputy Black for fleeing attempting to elude law enforcement. Deputies were notified at 1:50 a.m. by Alachua deputies of a Chevrolet truck fleeing from Gainesville police officers heading northbound on U.S. 301.

The truck was located a short while later westbound on S.R. 100. The driver swerved to the shoulder of the road several times before finally stopping. At that time Starling jumped from the vehicle and fled into the woods. He was later apprehended and transported to jail.

Bond was set at $10,000. Starling was also charged for violation of conditional release from Broward County for burglary of assault and three counts of sexual battery. New charges include grand theft motor vehicle, according to probation officers.

Orange Park

Pawn shop burglary ties suspects to other crimes

Two adults and two juveniles were arrested Saturday, June 21, on charges they burglarized an Orange Park pawn shop. Their arrest may clear up similar break-ins in Jacksonville too, said the Clay County Sheriff’s Office.

The foursome were taken into custody when a sheriff’s deputy responding to a burglary alarm about 5:00 a.m. at the Big Cash Pawn, on Blanding Boulevard saw a suspicious vehicle backed
up to the rear of the building and the four suspects getting into a white Nissan. They fled with the deputy chasing them until the suspects’ vehicle crashed on West Blairmore Avenue.
All four ran from the scene and the deputy captured one of the suspects after a foot chase. Two others were caught a short time later, the report says.
Deputies found a loaded .25-caliber handgun inside the car. One of the suspects also had a wristwatch with a price tag from Big Cash Pawn still attached to it.
Security camera video from the store shows a white car was used to ram through a rear door and four males stealing items.
Michael Bell, 25, and Terrance Williams, 19, are charged with armed burglary and resisting an officer without violence. Bell is also charged with operating a vehicle with a suspended driver’s license. The two juveniles are also charged with armed burglary.

Starke

Running man

Steven Maloy, of Starke, was arrested June 18 by Starke Police Department Sgt. William Murray for resisting arrest without violence and on a warrant for violation of probation burglary, grand theft with no bond. Malloy, 31, fled from officers during a traffic stop. He was apprehended and placed under arrest. Bond on the resisting charge was set at $1,000.

Union County

Arrested for sex acts on child

A 49-year-old Lake Butler man, Vernon Reginald Godbolt, was arrested June 23 on charges of sexual battery involving a child.

Godbolt was charged by Union County Sheriff’s Office Major Garry Seay after an investigation into a possible sexual battery that occurred in the county in 2007. The victim says Goldbolt locked the victim in the house, threatened and stripped her. Reports allege he offered to pay her for sexual acts.

Godbolt is charged with kidnapping, false imprisonment, sexual assault on a child under 12, procuring for prostitute with minor under 18, sexual offense-fondling child less than 16.