Rejecting Lesser Term, Judge Sentences Jonathan Canales to Life in Prison in...
Jonathan Canales, 31, was sentenced to life in prison without parole in the attempted murder of his ex-girlfriend Tiffany Norman in their Mondex home in 2014. The judge declined to exercise his...
View ArticleFPC’s Curtis Gray, 18, Is Shot and Killed Outside Coin Laundry in Palm Coast
Curtis Gray, 18, a Flagler Palm Coast High School senior, was shot and killed outside a smoke shop and coin laundry off Belle Terre Parkway at 12:36 this morning, the Flagler County Sheriff's Office...
View ArticleMarion Leo Gavins Jr. Turns Himself In, Ending 36-Hour Search After Killing...
Marion Leo Gavins Jr., the 17-year-old Palm Coast suspect wanted in the shooting of Curtis Gray, 18, early Saturday morning, turned himself in to Flagler County Sheriff's deputies this afternoon. The...
View ArticleMan Accused of Attempting to Kill His Wife By Electrocution Says Using a Gun...
Michael Scott Wilson, 33, is accused of rigging up the entry door to his Palm Coast home in the W Section with electric current to shock his wife to death around Christmas 2017 as the couple was having...
View Article‘I Do Hear Voices,’ Man Accused of Plotting Wife’s Electrocution Says, But...
Wilson faces an attempted first-degree murder charge, for rigging his own home's entry door in Palm Coast with a contraption intended to electrocute his wife around Christmas 2017. But he's barred from...
View ArticleMichael Wilson Acquitted of Attempted Murder of His Pregnant Wife, Jury...
Michael Wilson was acquitted of the most serious charge against him--attempting to electrocute his wife--but convicted on a grand theft charge and a battery charge, exposing him to up top five years in...
View ArticleBenjamin Allen, 16, Arrested In Shooting of Elijah Rizvan Over a $125-Drug Deal
Benjaim Allen, 16, was arrested and charged in the murder of Elijah Rizvan, 17, Friday night on Palm Coast's Westford Lane, the consequence of what had been planned as a deal for marijuana. The post...
View ArticleDespite Concerns and Strange Behavior, Joseph Bova Once Again Judged...
For six years Joseph Bova, accused of murdering Zuheily Roman Rosado at a Palm Coast gas station in 2013, has see-sawed between Flagler's jail and a psychiatric hospital. He appears finally headed for...
View ArticleBenjamin Allen, 16, Is Charged as an Adult in 1st Degree Murder of...
State Attorney R.J. Larizza opted to try Benjamin Allen as an adult for the July 12 incident. If convicted, he may face life in prison, but he is not eligible for the death penalty. The post Benjamin...
View ArticleTurning Down Plea Offer, Michael Cummings Will Be Tried Nov. 18 on Wife’s Murder
Michael Cummings is accused of murdering his ex-wife at the house they shared on Point Pleasant Drive in Palm Coast in November 2018. Faith Cummings, 44, was found bludgeoned and asphyxiated. The post...
View ArticleFor Jury in Double-Murderer Case, Snelgrove’s Mental Disability Is a Gray...
David Snelgrove's double-murder of an elderly couple in palm Coast 20 years ago is not in dispute, but whether he should be put to death for it is. A jury will have to contend with the brutality of the...
View ArticleEligible for Re-Trial, Dorothy Singer Pleads in 2017 Murder of Her Husband...
She was eligible for a new trial. But facing daunting evidence against her, Dorothy Singer, formerly of west Flagler, pleaded to second-degree murder in the shooting death of her husband Charles in...
View Article“I’m So Embarrassed,” Judge Perkins Says of Further Delays in 3 Murder Trials...
Nathaniel Shimmel has been waiting three years for his murder trial, Tammy Almond two, Benjamin Allen one, and all three must wait until at least November as Covid restrictions are hampering Circuit...
View ArticleJevante Hamilton, 25, Indicted on 1st Degree Murder in Overdose Death of...
Hamilton is accused of killing Timothy J. Davidson, 25, by overdose on Aug. 24, 2019 in Palm Coast, after allegedly selling him fentanyl, and becomes the second man indicted on a murder charge...
View ArticleFacing Life in Prison, Benjamin Allen, 18, Rejects 30-Year Offer; State...
Benjamin Allen, the 18-year-old Palm Coast resident accused of first-degree murder in the shooting death of 17-year-old Elijah Rizvan 15 months ago, and Nathaniel Shimmel, facing a similar charge in...
View ArticleAs Flagler’s Covid Numbers Keep Going the Wrong Way, Even a Judge Says It...
Nathaniel Shimmel, 25, faces a 1st-degree murder charge in the stabbing death of his mother in 2017. He's willing to plea to 30 to 50 years. The state wants 35 to life. The trial, the oldest on...
View Article2 Arrested in ‘Targeted’ Circle K Murder in 2019 Following Extensive...
A 15-month-long murder investigation the Flagler County sheriff called "the most extensive" in county history ended Thursday with the arrest of two men charged in the hit-style shooting at the Circle K...
View ArticleFlagler Grand Jury Issues 4 Indictments for Murder, 2 More in Drug Deaths, 2...
The indictments of Allyson Dawn Bennett, 39, and Javian Neesmith, 21, are Flagler County's second and third for murder stemming from the death of individuals from drug overdoses--a relatively new,...
View ArticleSentenced to Life in Prison for Shooting Girlfriend, Jonathan Canales Returns...
Jonathan Canales was sentenced to life in prison for the attempted murder of Tiffany Norman in the Mondex in 2014 as her three children slept. He will represent himself when he appears before Circuit...
View ArticleA Blustering Jonathan Canales Calls Court ‘Satanistic’ as He Loses Latest...
Jonathan Canales, the 34-year-old former Mondex man serving a life term for shooting his then-girlfriend, accused the prison system of exposing him to beatings and the courts for being "satanistic" and...
View ArticleA Day of Testimony Unravels Three Witnesses’ Fleeing and Eluding Questions in...
The three witnesses who were in the car with Benjamin Allen the evening Elijah Rizvan was shot and killed testified today in Allen's trial on a first-degree murder charge, revealing to what extent they...
View ArticleBenjamin Allen Sobs, ‘It’s Pointless,’ as Jury Watches His Interview Before...
In the last day of trial before closing arguments, the jury watched a 56-minute interview between Benjamin Allen, who is accused of murder, and detectives, in the presence of his parents. He maintained...
View ArticleJury Finds Benjamin Allen Not Guilty in Shooting Death of Elijah Rizvan,...
After deliberating just under two and a half hours today, the all-white jury of four women and two men found Benjamin Allen not guilty of the murder by gunshot of 17-year-old Elijah Rizvan two years...
View Article2 High-Profile Trials, in Killing of Brandi Celenza and Alleged Disfigurement...
They are two of the most lurid, high-profile, long-lasting cases on the felony docket of Flagler County's court: Keith Johansen, 39, faces a first-degree murder charge in the shooting death of his wife...
View ArticleKeith Johansen Springs New Defense in Gunning Down of Wife Brandi Celenza:...
Keith Johansen, 39, is accused of murdering his wife Brandi Celenza at their F-Section home in Palm Coast in 2018. In opening arguments at his trial this morning, his attorney, discarding previous...
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