This past Friday, Judge Charles L.W. Helm accepted a plea from 40YO Joseph Brown, who was sentenced to 130.950 months, nearly eleven years in prison. Brown escaped from the Sumter County Detention Center in November 2025 ....
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Yesterday, Judge Daniel B. Merritt sentenced 44-year-old Charles Michael Mabry to 13 Life terms without the possibility of parole.
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Today, Sumter County Judge Charles L. Helm sentenced 28-year-old Joshua Aaron Timmons to 100 years in prison for the 2023 ambush shooting of a victim.
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Last week, jurors rendered a guilty verdict in the courtroom of the Honorable Judge Heidi Davis during the trial of 42YO Anthony Stephon Calloway. Jurors were out for deliberations just 45 minutes before finding Calloway guilty as charged.
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A jury found 36YO Watson guilty of Premeditated First-Degree Murder following a school shooting in Ocala that resulted in the death of 32YO Joseph James Jaurez Coles. Following the verdict, Watson was sentenced to Life in prison. sao5.org/watson-found-guilty…
Last week, jurors delivered their verdict in a 2020 attempted murder case. After a few hours of deliberation, jurors found 51-year-old Galvin Bernard Smith, a multi-time convicted felon, guilty of Attempted First-Degree Murder with a Firearm. sao5.org/convicted-felon-fou…
Friday, 33-year-old Brandon Lee Martalitsch, a Habitual Violent Felony Offender and Prison Releasee Reoffender, was sentenced to Life in prison after being found guilty earlier this year of Aggravated Child Abuse. sao5.org/martalitsch-sentenc…
This afternoon, the court granted our office's three motions in preparation for the upcoming homicide trial involving Hall. The State & the Defense will return back to court on Nov. 3rd to address a fourth motion filed. 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗹'𝘀 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝗲𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗡𝗼𝘃 𝟭𝟲𝘁𝗵.
Last week, 35-year-old Aaron David Randall was sentenced for his 2024 arrest related to the possession and distribution of sexually explicit artificial intelligence-generated material involving children and animals.
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Today, a jury has recommended a Life sentence for 53-year-old Vickie Lynn Williams. Upon hearing the jury’s recommendation, Judge Cary F. Rada sentenced Williams to life. sao5.org/jury-recommends-lif…
FLSaO5 announces the sentencing of 62YOMyers for various sexual crimes committed against a child. Myers was sentenced to 6 consecutive Life terms in prison & designated as a Sexual Predator... sao5.org/myers-sentenced-to-…
Today, after roughly 30 minutes of deliberations, a Lake County jury found 53-year-old Vickie Lynn Williams guilty of two counts of First-Degree Murder in the December 2022 stabbing deaths of retired Mount Dora couple Darryl and Sharon Getman. sao5.org/jury-finds-vickie-w…
This week, 27-year-old Jenna Ann Hoffman was sentenced to 25 years in the Florida Department of Corrections and will have to register as a Sexual Predator for Life. sao5.org/hoffman-sentenced-a…
Judge Daniel B. Merritt Jr. sentenced 37-year-old Gerald Allen Gilbert to Life in prison on each sexual battery charge... sao5.org/four-life-sentences…
Today, 44-year-old Cliff Demond Johnson and 30-year-old Davonte Marques Heflin were found guilty by a jury of all drug trafficking and drug-related charges related to their 2022 arrests. sao5.org/two-defendants-foun…
Yesterday, September 2, 2026, a Sumter County jury found 28-year-old Joshua Aaron Timmons guilty on all charges for his role in the January 2023 ambush shooting of a victim. sao5.org/timmons-found-guilt…
Last week, 54-year-old Clyde Edward Johnson Jr. was sentenced to two concurrent Life terms as a Habitual Violent Felony Offender by Judge Mary P. Hatcher. sao5.org/johnson-sentenced-t…
Yesterday, August 27, 2026, jurors delivered their verdict in the 2023 murder case of 56-year-old Darius Duntel Jones. Following a three-day jury trial, jurors found 41-year-old Joseph Edwards Horrighs guilty of First-Degree Premeditated Murder. sao5.org/horrighs-found-guil…
Today, State Attorney Bill Gladson announces that a jury has recommended the Death Penalty for 64YO Jeffrey Norman Crum. The jury’s recommendation comes on a bittersweet day, the birthday of Jennifer Odom, who would have been 46 years old today.sao5.org/jurors-recommend-de…
This morning, Judge Healis sentenced 30-year-old Immanuel Zachariah Smith to 5 years in the Florida Department of Corrections followed by two years of felony probation for his 2025 arrest. sao5.org/defendant-sentenced…
