A Florida police officer will be terminated from her position after the agency says she accidentally shot a man with his own gun during a traffic stop. The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office says the Dec.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to hold a press conference on Thursday at the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.
An officer with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office has been charged with incompetence after shooting a man with his own gun at a traffic stop.
The governor will be joined by Sheriff T.K. Waters and Florida Dept. of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles Executive Director Dave Kerner.
JSO officers pulled over the driver on Dec. 13, saying he ran a red light, while the driver insisted it was yellow when he went through it, according to an internal affairs report. A male officer asked the driver if he had anything “crazy” in the car, and the man told him he had a gun on him, according to the report.
Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters and a corrections officer have settled a wrongful death lawsuit with the family of a woman who killed herself in the Duval County Pretrial Detention Facility after multiple suicide attempts.
Several bridges across Jacksonville were closed in both directions Wednesday morning amid the winter storm causing hazardous icy conditions, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.
The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office is looking to move more of its staff into the Florida Blue building in Brooklyn.
The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office announced the arrest of one of its own employees on Thursday, marking the first arrest of the year.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office arrested a man in connection to a fatal shooting in Jacksonville in 2023. Lawrence Bell, who was arrested in Glynn County on unrelated charges, was charged with second-degree murder by JSO on Jan. 17 in connection with the death of 23-year-old Christopher Griffin.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis came to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office headquarters Thursday afternoon to hold a roundtable with Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters and other public officials.