FRAZIARS CONVICTED OF TRAFFICKING COCAINE AFTER 10-MINUTE JURY DELIBERATION
(Marion County, FL) On Tuesday, March 11, 2025, 64-year-old Frederick Leon Fraziars was found guilty of Trafficking in Cocaine and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. Jurors deliberated for roughly 10 minutes, after hearing expert testimony and examining evidence presented during the trial, before rendering their verdict. After the verdict was read, Judge Timothy T. McCourt sentenced […]
TWENTY-THREE-TIME CONVICTED FELON SENTENCED TO FIFTY YEARS FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
(Marion County, FL) On Thursday, March 6, 2025, the day after 43-year-old Santini Antwain Chisholm’s trial commenced, jurors found the twenty-three-time convicted felon guilty on all five counts of drug-trafficking-related offenses. After his conviction, Judge Barbara Kissner-Kwatkosky sentenced Chisholm to fifty years in prison. Chisholm was charged and convicted of Armed Trafficking in Fentanyl, two […]
KOWANKO CONVICTED OF TRAFFICKING NARCOTICS
(Citrus County, FL) In Judge Joel D. Fritton’s courtroom last week, 50-year-old Robert Paul Kowanko was found guilty by a jury on trafficking illicit narcotics charges stemming from his 2023 arrest. Kowanko was convicted of Trafficking in Methamphetamine, Trafficking in Cocaine, Unlawful Use of a Two-way Communications Device, and Possession of Paraphernalia. Kowanko was remanded […]
BAILEY GUILTY OF LEESBURG GAS STATION MURDER
(Lake County, FL) Last week, 22-year-old Kenneth Dalon Bailey entered a plea of guilty to the charge of Second-Degree Murder for the 2024 murder of 87-year-old Clarence Harold Ervin. Judge Cary Rada sentenced Bailey to 45 years in the Florida Department of Corrections. “Despite his young age, this defendant made the choice that led to […]
SANTIAGO ENTERS OPEN PLEA TO THE COURT AHEAD OF FELONY TRIAL FOR BURGLARY
(Citrus County, FL) Earlier this morning, 40-year-old Ashley Jerome Oliver Santiago entered an open plea to the Court before Judge Joel D. Fritton just minutes before jurors were scheduled to hear the state’s evidence against the defendant. Santiago was charged with two counts of Burglary of a Structure, two counts of Felony Petit Theft, and […]
GUILTY VERDICT AND SEVEN LIFE SENTENCES FOR MARTINEZ IN CAPITAL SEXUAL BATTERY OF TWO CHILDREN
(Marion County, FL) Last week, in the courtroom of Judge Timothy McCourt, jurors found 40-year-old Daniel Martinez Jr. guilty on all seven charges. Martinez was charged with three counts of Capital Sexual Battery upon person Under Twelve Years of Age and four counts of Lewd or Lascivious Molestation. After being convicted, Judge McCourt sentenced Martinez […]
MAN ACCUSED OF ATTEMPTED SEXUAL BATTERY AND ATTEMPTED MURDER FOUND GUILTY AND SENTENCED
(Lake County, FL) In the courtroom of Judge James R. Baxley, 22-year-old Jephson Seguin pleaded guilty to charges related to his 2023 arrest. Seguin was convicted of Attempted Sexual Battery with Force Likely to Cause Injury while Wearing a Mask, Attempted First-Degree Murder of a Law Enforcement Officer with a Weapon While Wearing a Mask, […]
HERNANDO COUNTY MAN SENTENCED TO 18 YEARS FOR CHILD SEX OFFENSE
(Hernando County, FL) On February 20, 2025, 34-year-old Robert Joseph McGuire Jr. pleaded guilty to two felony counts of Sexual Battery Upon Person 12 to 18 Years of Age Involving Threat of Retaliation. After his plea, McGuire was sentenced to just shy of eighteen and a half years in the Florida Department of Corrections, is […]
CONVICTED FELON SENTENCED TO A DECADE AND A HALF FOR TRAFFICKING NARCOTICS
(Citrus County, FL) Yesterday, 30-year-old Connor James Vidair was found guilty by a jury of all drug trafficking and drug-related charges related to his 2024 arrest. After hearing testimony from numerous expert witnesses presented by prosecutors, along with compelling latent-print evidence, within an hour jurors reached their verdict. Judge Joel D. Fritton sentenced Vidair to […]
JACKSON FOUND GUILTY OF BATTERY ON LEO DURING BAR DISTURBANCE
(Marion County, FL) After a jury trial this week with irrefutable body-worn camera footage, 30-year-old Devin Jacquan Jackson was found guilty of Felony Battery on a Law Enforcement Officer related to his 2023 arrest at a local bar in downtown Ocala, FL. “The defendant couldn’t negate the video footage presented in this case. Fortunately for […]