Person of interest in Orange Park rape arrested on Georgia warrant

GREEN COVE SPRINGS – A man considered a person of interest in the March 13 rape of an Orange Park woman was arrested on April 5 by detectives with the Chatham County (Georgia) and Clay County sheriff’s offices.
Kasey Levi Lyons Dyak, 31, was taken to the Clay County Jail to face burglary, false imprisonment, rape and aggravated sodomy charges related to a June 1, 2019, attack on Whitemarsch Island, Georgia.
Police in Georgia said the woman woke up to a stranger after he broke into her apartment. He then sexually assaulted her.
Sheriff Michelle Cook there may be a tie to the Georgia crime and the recent rape in Clay County. A woman said a man sexually assaulted her around 6 a.m. on March 13 near Blairmore and Blanding boulevards. She said the assailant broke into her house.
“Here’s the tie back to Clay County: he is a person of interest for us in the sexual assault that occurred in the Blairmore-Blanding area on March 13,” Cook said. “Just a few weeks ago, this incident here locally is still an active investigation, so we can’t go into too much, but we’re asking anybody that has any information about Dyak, his activities about this case or any other case that he may have been involved in, too, give us a call at (904) 264-6512. You can send us a tip via SaferWatch.”
Dyak, whose bond was denied, is awaiting extradition back to Chatham County.

CCSO: Shoplifter charged with trafficking fentanyl
ORANGE PARK – A man detained for a reported shoplifting at Dick’s Sporting Goods wound up going to jail for trafficking fentanyl.
In addition to the fentanyl charge, Derrick Hosea Dixon, 45, of Jacksonville, was booked for shoplifting shoes and football gloves, possession of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia and resisting arrest after he was spotted riding a bicycle away from the Orange Park Mall on April 5. According to the arrest report, witnesses saw Dixon ride away with merchandise stuffed in a backpack. He was stopped by a Clay County Sheriff’s Office deputy and a witness identified Dixon at the scene.
During a search, deputies also found the drugs in the backpack. While the amount of fentanyl was redacted from the report, any seizure of four grams or more constitutes trafficking.
His bond was set at $237,512, and his next court appearance will be on May 1.

GCS’s Coleman sentenced for distributing child pornography
JACKSONVILLE – U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced Ethan Rabin Coleman, 33, Green Cove Springs, to six years and eight months in federal prison for distributing videos of children being sexually abused. The court also ordered Coleman to serve a five-year term of supervised release and pay $31,000 to victims of his offenses. Coleman entered a guilty plea Oct. 20, 2022.
According to court documents, Homeland Security Investigations agents in Jacksonville received information from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that four files depicting child sexual abuse had been uploaded over the internet on Jan. 6, 2021.
The report indicated that the upload of the files came from an account with the username of “bige1131990,” with an email associated with ethanrabin1131990@gmail.com, and an Internet Protocol address that traced back to an address in Green Cove Springs. After reviewing the files and upon further investigation, HSI agents and the Clay County Sheriff’s Office executed a federal search warrant at the residence on Nov. 9, 2021. During the execution of the search warrant, agents encountered Coleman, who exited the home holding a phone in his hand.
An onsite preview of the phone yielded numerous files depicting the sexual abuse of children, including one of the files identified in the reported uploads.
During an interview with law enforcement, Coleman admitted that his email address is ethanrabin1131990@gmail.com and acknowledged that he “got banned for some reason” from a social media account reported by NCMEC.
At first, Coleman denied sending any child sexual abuse files over the social media application. When asked again, he acknowledged the files were shared in a group to which he belonged. Further, Coleman admitted to viewing the files multiple times after downloading files showing children being sexually abused from a file-sharing application onto his phone. He shared the images with others, and he acknowledged knowing the individuals depicted as being sexually abused were young, including a file showing the sexual assault of a toddler. When asked why he thought it was wrong, Coleman stated, “Because they’re little kids.”
“This predator, knowing it was images of children being sexually abused, decided to feed his perversion by collecting, viewing, and sharing the digital files many times over with others on the internet,” said Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Assistant Special Agent in Charge K. Jim Phillips. “Thanks to our partnership with the Clay County Sheriff’s Office and the efforts of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, we have pulled another predator offline and stopped him from his continued victimization of children.” 
Homeland Security Investigations and CCSO investigated this case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Kelly S. Karase prosecuted it.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by the U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc.

Trafficking fentanyl charge starts with seatbelt violation
ORANGE PARK – A Clay County Sheriff’s Office deputy saw a woman driving on Wells Road without a seatbelt, and the ticket quickly escalated into drug charges.
Adriel Robin Finley, 39, of Orange Park, was charged with trafficking cocaine and possession of fentanyl after she was pulled over on April 5 for not wearing her seatbelt. The deputy smelled marijuana smoke. CCSO K-9 Ory alerted deputies of the likely presence of illegal narcotics. A search then led to the recovery of cocaine that was stuffed in her shorts. Her bond was set at $80,006.