Trucker Arrested Following Pursuit
In the early morning hours of Saturday, February 25, a truck driver was arrested after he made threats and then led Deputies on a chase. Around midnight, the Columbia [...]
In the early morning hours of Saturday, February 25, a truck driver was arrested after he made threats and then led Deputies on a chase. Around midnight, the Columbia [...]
Detectives and Agents with the North Florida Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force (ICAC) arrested 12 child predators from Tallahassee to Lake City as part of a weeklong investigation known [...]
On Wednesday, February 15, a White Springs man with an active arrest warrant, resisted arrest and led Deputies on a car chase. At 3:03 p.m. the Columbia County Combined [...]
On Wednesday, December 28, the Columbia County Multi-Jurisdictional Drug Task Force served a search warrant at 112 SW Birch Glen in unincorporated Columbia County and concluded a lengthy narcotics investigation. [...]
Shortly before 4 P.M. Detective Sergeant Don Meyer was off for the day doing some Christmas shopping at the Lake City Mall. As he waked the mall interior, he saw someone he had never met, but that he quickly recognized, a wanted subject, Terrance Davis, 29. Sergeant Meyer recognized Davis from a wanted bulletin that the FBI had send out Thursday morning alerting the Sheriff’s Office to be on the lookout for Davis because he was wanted for murder in Las Vegas.
On Tuesday, November 15, at 9 pm, the suspect, Kyle Jarod George, 24 of Lake City was captured near Hudson Street and SR 47 following an extensive manhunt. George [...]
On Tuesday, November 15, at 6 pm, a Columbia County Sheriff’s Deputy was injured when he was struck by a motorcycle in the area of SW Packard Street east of [...]
Sheriff Mark Hunter presented four agency members with awards due to their outstanding achievements. Sergeant Howard Bulthuis, Detective Chris Parker, Detective Marcella Mayo and Analyst Yvette Tyler were given the awards for 2016 cases where they preformed their duties in a manner that brought great credit on them and the agency.
A Columbia County Sheriff’s Office Deputy saved a child, using CPR, who had fallen in a pool and was unresponsive Thursday, October 27th. The 22 month old baby was flown to a hospital in Gainesville where she is in stable condition.
Columbia County Sheriff’s Office Detectives arrested a Lake City man who has been on a multi county burglary spree. Over a two month period, 14 burglaries were committed by the suspect who used the same method and burglary tools. Five of the 14 burglaries were outside of Columbia County in Suwannee, Baker, Lafayette, and Union Counties.