Wednesday, December 7

Daniel Huskey, 26, Starke, Fla., CCSO, Aggravated Child Abuse

Christopher Sumner, 34, Keystone Heights, CCSO, FTA - Domestic Battery

Joshua Williams, 32, Keystone Heights, CCSO, Possession of a Controlled Substance, Resisting an Officer, Corruption By Threatening a Public Servant

Monday, December 5

Martea Calloway, 46, Lawtey, Fla., CCSO, Aggravated Assault With a Deadly Weapon, Aggravated Battery

Sunday, December 4

Brittany Fike, 26, Keystone Heights, CCSO, Violate Probation - Community Control

Friday, December 2

Robbie Rossano, 22, Keystone Heights, CCSO, DUI

Thursday, December 1

Verna Foley, 34, Starke, Fla., CCSO, Public Aid Fraud $200 or More

Wednesday, November 30

Eddie Watson, 33, Palatka, Fla., CCSO, Possession of a Controlled Substance

Paula Yowell, 44, Lawtey, Fla., CCSO, Grand Theft $300-4,999

Thursday, November 24

Stephen Allen, 40, Keystone Heights, CCSO, Simple Domestic Battery

Scott Wilson, 24, Keystone Heights, CCSO, DUI, Driving Without a Valid License

Tuesday, November 22

Zackery Rice, 28, Starke, Fla., GCSPD, DWLSR

Sunday, November 20

Randal Coblentz, 45, Keystone Heights, CCSO, Petit Theft/Retail

Litissa Mason, 32, Keystone Heights, CCSO, Domestic Battery

Rebecca Schoenfeld, 31, Florahome, FHP, Non-Support

Eric Sturdivant, 33, Florahome, CCSO, Failure to Appear for Court

Saturday, November 19

Troy Sturgis, 47, Keystone Heights, CCSO, Domestic Battery

Friday, November 18

Jennifer Long, 39, Keystone Heights, CCSO, Non-Support

Thursday, November 17

Stephanie Brown, 28, Keystone Heights, CCSO, Petit Theft, Resisting An Officer, Resisting Retail Merchant, Drug Equipment Possession

Litissa Mason, 32, Keystone Heights, CCSO, Domestic Battery

Wednesday, November 16

Bridget Bronson, 30, Raiford, CCSO, FTA - DWLSR

Chevon Brown, 29, Palatka, CCSO, DUI

Tuesday, November 15

Morris Alston, 57, Palatka, CCSO, Non-Support

Travis McGrath, 24, Keystone Heights, CCSO, Bringing Drugs Into Jail, Drug Equipment Possession

Jacqueline Stout, 30, Keystone Heights, CCSO, VOP - DUI

Sunday, November 13

Edward Bergman, 32, Palatka, CCSO, Habitual Traffic Offender, Possession of a Controlled Substance

Child battery arrest for Huskey

KEYSTONE HEIGHTS – Authorities have charged a Keystone Heights man with one count of aggravated child battery for allegedly injuring a child so badly that the injuries will “extend into her adult life.”

The Clay County Sheriff’s Office arrested Daniel Kenneth Huskey, 26, on Dec. 7 after launching an investigation that started the night of June 4, 2015 when Huskey called 911 from his home in the 7800 block of State Road 100.

The female child was airlifted to Shands hospital in Gainesville where doctors found she had two occipital fractures, a subdural hemorrhage on the right side of her brain, a cerebral edema and a brain shift “that needed immediate surgery to relieve the pressure on her brain,” states the CCSO arrest warrant.

When the child arrived at Shands, a team of neurosurgeons went to work to save her. They were followed by the Child Protection Team and the CCSO who launched their investigation.

According to police, the victim is still recovering from the injuries and had another surgery on Nov. 29 to correct some of the damage caused.

Huskey was booked into the Clay County Jail where his bond was set at $250,003.

Stop sign violation leads to drug arrest

KEYSTONE HEIGHTS – A traffic stop for running a stop sign at the intersection of Lakeview and SW Pecan streets on Dec. 7 ended in drug charges for the passenger of the car.

The Clay County Sheriff’s Office arrested Joshua Lee Williams, 32, of Keystone Heights after they seized a keyring vial containing at least four kinds of prescription medications for which Williams did not have prescriptions.

According to the police report, Williams got out of the front passenger’s seat of the vehicle “and began acting nervous while deputies were alongside the vehicle,” states the police report.

Police said Williams began to reach for a knife he kept in the right front pocket of his shorts. Officers said Williams “refused multiple loud verbal commands to keep his hands in normal view and stop reaching for items” so, when he refused, officers placed him in their patrol car.

Police also said Williams told the officer, in a threatening manner, that he knew where he lived.

Williams was charged with one count each of possession of a controlled substance, resisting an officer, corruption by threatening a public servant. He was booked into the Clay County Jail where, at press time, he remained without bond.

Thanksgiving dinner ends in attempted murder arrest

MIDDLEBURG – What began as a “verbal altercation” between an expectant girlfriend and her boyfriend ended Thanksgiving night in a premeditated murder charge for a Middleburg man.

The Clay County Sheriff’s Office arrested Joshua Everett Magruder, 24, on Nov. 24 at 10:47 p.m. after conducting an investigation at a home in the 4500 block of Racoon Run in Middleburg.

According to the police report, Magruder “became angry at the manner in which the victim [Andrew James Ward, 28] was speaking” with his girlfriend.

Four eyewitnesses told police that Magruder went into the home and “retrieved a loaded rifle and went out to the street to confront the victim as he was leaving the residence,” states the police report.

One of the witnesses was able to approach Magruder and “physically remove” the rifle from him. Within seconds, Magruder allegedly left the home in his truck, but was later questioned by CCSO detectives at the Orange Park substation on Blanding Boulevard.

Magruder is charged with one count of second degree premeditated murder. At press time, he remained in the Clay County Jail where he is being held without bond.

This case marks the second arrest in 2016 for Magruder. In February, he was charged with armed robbery for allegedly entering a woman’s home and demanding she hand over any prescription medications she had purchased, however, that charge was dropped by the state attorney on May 3, according to records with the Clay County Clerk of Court.

Two killed in head-on collision on State Road 100

KEYSTONE HEIGHTS – A head-on collision on State Road 100 in Union County killed two Keystone Heights residents and left two other travelers with serious injuries.

Donna Crews, 41, and Kaelyn Crews, 10, died late on Nov. 21 after a collision with a Ford F150 that veered into the eastbound lane along State Road 100 resulted in a front on collision as well as a rear-end collision with a traveler driving a Kia Forte behind them.

The 2001 Ford F-150 traveled westbound along State Road 100, while Crews traveled eastbound in her 2013 Honda Civic. For unknown reasons, the Christopher Driggers, 19, who drove the truck, veered into Crews’ path, resulting in a head-on collision. A Kia Forte traveling behind Crews impacted the rear end of the Honda Civic, resulting in both vehicles rotating.

Donna and Kaelyn were pronounced dead on scene. Investigators are currently considering the crash being related to alcohol. Driggers was transported to University of Florida Health hospital in Gainesville.

Felon remains held on illegal hunting charges

GREEN COVE SPRINGS – A Green Cove Springs man with a lengthy record of felony convictions remains held in the Clay County Jail charged with deer poaching and other charges.

According to the arrest affidavit obtained by officials with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Keith Allen Ysbrand, 26, turned himself in to the Clay County Sheriff’s Office on Nov. 16 when officers served the warrant at his home on Walnut Street.

Acting on an anonymous tip, FWC investigators were told on Oct. 25 that Ysbrand and a second man “allegedly walked into the Bayard [Wildlife Management Area] with a firearm and unlawfully killed a six point buck over bait during closed season.”

Officers met with the tipster who gave them a photo taken Oct. 10 of Ysbrand smiling with the alleged poached deer. Officers then went to the scene of the poaching where they found “an illegal [deer] stand and kill site,” according to the warrant. The site was behind Shiloh Baptist Church on County Road 224 and was “clearly marked” as property of the St. Johns River Water Management District. They also found a game monitoring camera and a large pile of corn used to lure the deer to the site.

The FWC investigator stated he “could plainly see that a deer had been shot there and taken off as there was [a] drag sign, dried blood and deer hair on the ground.”

Investigators found that Ysbrand and his accomplice had walked to the wildlife management area from his mother’s home, which is adjacent to the deer kill site on Sweat Road.

The next day, Oct. 26, FWC officials went to Ysbrand’s mother’s home where they interviewed Ysbrand who admitted that he was a convicted felon having last been convicted of burglary on March 26, 2013. He has four felony convictions overall. Officials seized a .308-caliber rifle and had Ysbrand “very carefully hand it over.”

According to the warrant, Ysbrand admitted to the charges and led investigators to the deer horns, which they also photographed and seized.

Ysbrand is charged with one count each of possession of ammo by a convicted felon, taking deer or turkey with a gun during closed season, unlawful entry into a closed wildlife management area, taking wildlife over bait or grain and taking deer by an illegal method. His bond is set at $62,011.

Woman dies after vehicle overturns

MELROSE – The Florida Highway Patrol reports that a Keystone Heights woman died after a single-vehicle crash in Melrose the morning of Nov. 21.

Troopers said Reonna Thompson, 25, was driving a 2002 Honda CRV west on State Road 26 about 6:15 a.m. near Lake Serena Drive when the vehicle left the road and overturned several times. She was thrown from the vehicle, according to the crash report.

Troopers said Thompson was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash.

Thompson was taken to UF Health Shands Hospital in Gainesville where she was pronounced dead, troopers said.