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The case involving Eric Shirone Thompson was part of the Department of Justice's "Operation Take Back America" initiative.
Charlene Cox Harper, 74, was arrested yesterday at the airport after allegedly hitting a police officer because she was upset ...
Isaih Malik Cox, a/k/a “Glizzy,” 27, of Gainesville, was sentenced to 90 months in federal prison after previously pleading ...
Logan Plumley was charged in the brutal killing of his neighbor, 64-year-old John Tracy Hill, who was killed in 2024.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - A convicted armed drug trafficker from Gainesville has been sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Dallvion Jarrell Parker, 31, was sentenced to life in prison for the deaths of Brittany Avery-Hoisington, 33, and Trayvon ...
Silence traveled through a small auditorium in the Santa Fe College Blount Center as Lonnie Scott raised his right hand being sworn in as the 26th chief of police of the Gainesville Police Department.
Gainesville Police Department’s newest Chief of Police traveled over 2,000 miles across the United States for his career in public service. From Palm Bay, where he worked his way up to chief ...
Former police officer and the Gainesville Police K-9 unit’s only Black officer, Edward Ratliff described how other officers would repeatedly make racist remarks within the department.
The department currently has no specific initiatives regarding sexual assault, according to GPD spokesperson Graham Glover. Two attacks on early Sept. 10 in southwest Gainesville left local women ...