CCSO: Man jailed for shooting a man in stomach

MIDDLEBURG – A 36-year-old man was arrested and charged with attempted murder after Clay County Sheriff’s Office deputies found another man in the front yard of a home on Zagato Court with gunshot wounds to the abdomen and arm.
Adam Sidney McWilliams, of Middleburg, is being held on a $750,003 bond after the man, who wasn’t identified, required surgery and was placed in a medically-induced coma.
McWilliams’ next court appearance will be on July 3.

Woman caught for hiding drugs while being booked into jail

MIDDLEBURG – A woman caught with fentanyl on May 31 now faces two additional charges after Clay County Sheriff’s Office Detention Deputies discovered hidden methamphetamine and alprazolam while she was being booked into the county jail.
According to two arrest reports, Nicole Lorraine Kreitzer, 35, of Green Cove Springs, was stopped after the agency got a call about a woman riding a bicycle “acting in a strange manner” in the parking lot of a doughnut and sandwich shop on Blanding Boulevard. When deputies arrived, the woman ducked behind a dumpster, but she eventually emerged.
After being arrested for loitering and prowling, deputies found a packet of fentanyl wrapped in foil in her waist and a syringe.
She was charged with two counts of introducing contraband into the jail, possession of fentanyl and drug paraphernalia, and loitering and prowling.
Once at the jail, detention deputies found methamphetamine in a plastic bag tucked in her body cavity and a pill in her fanny pack bag.
Her bond was set at $65,013.

Thumbprint leads to arrest for cashing counterfeit check

ORANGE PARK – The Clay County Sheriff’s Office were able to track down one of three people accused of cashing counterfeit payroll checks in 2020.
Jaelon Wesley Eiland, 22, was charged with passing a counterfeit instrument after he cashed a check from a phony business at the EZ Cash Zone on Blanding Boulevard.
According to the affidavit for arrest warrant, three people brought checks drawn from Tacilda’s Kitchen. Eiland’s check was for $658.78. The owner of the check-cashing store discovered all three checks were counterfeit five days later.
Investigators learned the address for the restaurant all three used was Sundance Pointe Apartments in Jacksonville. They also found a listing for Tacilda’s Kitchen on a website, but the picture of the business actually was from a closed pizzeria.
Further investigation showed the phone number provided by all three to the check-cashing store was used at the same time in a rental scheme in El Paso, Texas.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement identified the thumbprint Eiland provided when he cashed the check.
CCSO and FDLE identified the other two suspects as Alisa Belladonna and Tyrence Simmons-Powell.
Eiland’s bond is $25,003.

Hospital staff find drugs hidden in shoplifter’s body
GREEN COVE SPRINGS – A man who passed out while being booked for shoplifting and resisting arrest was found with a cache of drugs hidden in his body, the Clay County Sheriff’s Office said.
Kenard Anthony Williams, 32, of Orange Park, now faces additional charges of possession of fentanyl, marijuana and cocaine after he was transported to HCA Florida Orange Park Hospital, where staff removed the drugs from his body cavity. According to the arrest report, hospital staff believed there was more contraband in his bladder, but they couldn’t retrieve it.
Bond for Williams was $15,009.

Man Tased twice after challenging two CCSO deputies

GREEN COVE SPRINGS – Clay County Sheriff’s Office deputies had to deploy their Tasers twice to subdue a man after neighbors said they saw him with a “long gun” along County Road 209 South on June 3.
Allen David Shugart, 36, of St. Augustine, was charged with shooting or throwing a missile, resisting arrest with violence and vandalism after a man called to say Shugart damaged his car.
According to the arrest report, when deputies arrived, Shugart ran into a wooded area. The defendant threw a log at one of the deputies, and then he “took a fighting stance” before approaching one of the deputies. Shugart was Tased, but he pulled the probes out. He was Tased again by a second deputy, and that allowed them to make the arrest.