Detectives say Steven Matychak met the 15-year-old girl through an online chat app.
ACSO has arrested and charged a 13-year-old female student from KMS in connection with the bomb threats. According to the state Department of Education, bomb threats are felony offenses and require expulsion for at least one year and referral for prosecution.
ACPS officials say both Kanapaha Middle School and Buchholz High School have been evacuated and both schools are being swept by law enforcement.
BPD says officer Gregory Freeman resigned on Sept. 15.
After being hit by a car, the pedestrian reportedly ended up in the inside lane of CR 464. He was then hit by another vehicle which drove away. Anyone with information about the vehicle or victim is urged to contact FHP.
OPD is targeting 10 intersections for increased patrols over the next eight months looking for drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists not obeying traffic safety laws.
Deputies found an adult man with multiple gunshot wounds in the parking lot. If you have information, you are urged to contact the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office at 352-955-1818.
Levy County Sheriff’s Office found Dianne Durling’s vehicle late Thursday night in Yankeetown. Crews are searching the waterway near the Bird Creek boat ramp for Durling.
GPD posted a minute and a half long edited video on their Facebook page which shows body camera footage of the arrest of 47-year-old Jesse Charles Smith inside the Butler Plaza Walmart where police say he created his own entrance using a stolen excavator.
Investigators are looking for the driver of a green Hyundai who they say sped through a parking lot in the Clark Butler Blvd. area on Friday around 3:30 p.m., hitting and killing a pedestrian.