Law and Courts

Staff Report

The Levy County Drug Task Force – acting on tips from the public and provided through Crime Stoppers – located and dismantled a methamphetamine lab in the Ocala Highlands West area and arrested a Morriston man. More arrests are expected in the case. 

The Levy County Sheriff’s Office reports the following arrests:

• Feb. 5, Michael Bergeron, 25, Inglis, FTA. Bond $1,000.

• Feb. 4, Stephanie Ann Carlisle, 21, Bronson, VOP.

Staff Report

Levy County Sheriff’s K-9 Deputy Clint Anderson was on patrol in Bronson when he received information that Jermey Jamal Mayes, 24, was driving while his license was suspended.

 Law enforcement fatalities in the U.S. rose 24 percent in 2014, reversing what had been two years of dramatic declines in line of duty deaths, based on preliminary data compiled and released today by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF).