A mural on the 34th Street for Terrell Bradley, who lost his eye to a Gainesville Police K9 following a traffic stop, has become a battleground between calls for justice and symbols of white supremacy.
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The University of Florida Police Department confirmed a man who was wanted for recording video of female students in their dorm bathrooms has been arrested. Deontre Mason, 25, was arrested in Marion, Illinois, on nine charges of video voyeurism brought by UFPD and extradited back to Gainesville on Tuesday. According …
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A judge on Friday sentenced the driver in a hit-and-run that killed a University of Florida student to six years in prison with 15 years of felony probation and took away his driver’s license for the next decade.
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Alachua County Circuit Judge Phillip Pena was confused about the development and scheduled a new hearing Friday to learn specific details about the hospitalization of Joshua Alexander Figueroa, 32, of Gainesville. He said he did not want to draw out the criminal case any longer for either party.
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Joshua Figueroa, 32, of Gainesville is expected to be sentenced to prison Wednesday on a felony charge of leaving an accident scene involving a death.
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An Indiana man who is not a law enforcement officer was arrested during a traffic stop after informing a University of Florida police officer that he was also a University of Florida police officer, according to court records. Andre Delano Haden Kerley, 33, caught the attention of Victor Beguiristain, a …
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The plea deal follows Palazzi's incarceration in 2017 while awaiting trial for the charge of second degree manslaughter.
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Now, after more than two decades, it is run strictly by the sheriff’s office and is known as the Sheriff's Office Aviation Unit.
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Gainesville’s initiative, established in April 2019, brought in the federal government to create a partnership between local, state and federal law enforcement to reduce gun violence in the area.
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The date of the new hearing was not decided Monday, but it's likely going to be set for mid-November.
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