On Saturday, May 21, 2011, a Lake City man was arrested by Columbia County Sheriff’s Deputies following a pursuit. At approximately 8:45 p.m., Deputy Sheriff Danny Brown was dispatched to the Fast Track convenience store on U.S. 90 West. The complainant advised Deputy Brown that someone had just stolen his 2004 Toyota Tacoma pickup truck.…
On Monday, May 23, 2011, a man was arrested by the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office following a narcotics investigation. Deputy James Finnell, the School Resource Officer at Lake City Middle School, discovered several marijuana plants that were growing in a wooded area on school property. It was obvious that the marijuana plants were being cared…
On Sunday, May 29, 2011, a Columbia County man was shot in the leg during a robbery. At approximately 1:45 a.m., Columbia County Sheriff’s Office Deputies were dispatched to 376 NE Bonds St., Lake City, FL to investigate a robbery/shooting. Deputies determined that the suspect approached a group of people standing near a car. The…
On March 1, 2011, the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) exercised its emergency scheduling authority and published a Final Order to control five chemicals used to make so-called “fake pot” products. The five chemicals are JWH-018, JWH-073, JWH-200, CP-47, 497 and cannabicyclohexanol. Except as authorized by law, the action makes possessing and selling these…
A Columbia County Sheriff’s Office employee recently discovered that fraudulent checks that were written on a Sheriff’s Office bank account. Fiscal Specialist Amy Royal was conducting audits of the Sheriff’s Office bank accounts when the fraud was discovered. Ms. Royals learned that the suspect’s had created false payroll checks in a different company’s name but…