JACKSONVILLE SHERIFF'S OFFICE

Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters believes high-tech, targeted crime fighting will help decrease violence as the city struggles with a high number of shootings and homicides. In January, JSO allowed the I-TEAM to spend several days and nights with special units attached to the project.

Undersheriff Nick Burgos is set to retire in March after 26 years of service with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, and Sheriff T.K. Waters has announced his replacement and a series of other appointments resulting from the change.

A man died Tuesday night after a shooting on Buckman Street in the Longbranch neighborhood, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.

The I-TEAM has gathered more information about a Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office narcotics investigation that ended with a man being shot by officers.

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office is seeking information from the public after a woman told officers she observed a white van pull up next to a young girl and drive off with her.

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office’s pledge to be transparent under Sheriff T.K. Waters is being challenged by a mother who still wants answers following her son’s death.

As of Jan. 17, 11 homicides had been reported in Jacksonville for the year 2023 — and the president of the Northside Coalition, is urging city leaders to consider new ways to curb violent crime.

Human trafficking can happen anywhere and to anyone — that was the message Tuesday morning from the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, the State Attorney’s Office for the Fourth Judicial Circuit and the FBI during a news conference in recognition of National Human Trafficking Awareness Month.

Recently, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office has noticed an uptick in street racing, including one night when racers took over the Dames Point Bridge.

Rescuers used every resource they had — from helicopters and drones to canines and detectives — to find a missing 78-year-old Jacksonville man alive.

Lakesha Burton, the former assistant chief for the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office who previously ran for sheriff in 2022, said she won’t be running again in 2023.

A Jacksonville police officer was arrested Friday on a third-degree felony charge of official misconduct, Sheriff T.K. Waters said.

“Operation Decrypted,” a four-month investigation by the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office and other partnering agencies, targeted a major drug trafficking organization in Jacksonville, and it resulted in arrests across the country, Sheriff T.K. Waters announced during a Wednesday afternoon news conference.

The shooting death of an 18-year-old man in Atlantic Beach has been ruled a justifiable homicide, according to records on the Jacksonville’s Sheriff’s Office’s Open Data and Transparency site.

Sheriff T.K. Waters on Tuesday announced that for the first time in the history of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, there is now a general order that requires transparency of the agency’s members.

A man was hospitalized in life-threatening condition after a shooting Tuesday morning in the Hogan’s Creek area near UF Health Jacksonville, police said.

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office on Friday said it’s investigating after multiple thefts have been reported in shopping center parking lots.

In Duval County, law enforcement officers will be “more forward-facing.” That’s the phrase from leaders at the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office under the direction of Sheriff T.K. Waters.

The News4JAX I-TEAM has been asking questions as to why a prominent political donor had badge access to Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office headquarters and multiple other locations for five years.

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office on Friday posted body-worn camera footage from a police-involved shooting in May.

After viewing body-worn camera video of a traffic stop involving a Navy veteran who claims he was racially profiled by the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, legal experts are weighing in on the officers’ actions.

Someone is responsible for a drive-by shooting that killed 13-year-old Prince Holland. Criminal attorney Lee Lockett says every day that passes without information - the community grows sadder and sometimes – quieter.

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office announced Friday at an afternoon news conference the results of a recent operation that led to 33 DUI-related arrests over the Thanksgiving holiday.

New bodycam footage released by the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office shows the moments of a high-speed chase that ended with a police cruiser plowing through a fence on the Westside.

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office is looking for a man in connection to a homicide investigation after a woman was found dead in a Southside apartment complex Tuesday night.

A semi-truck driver was critically wounded early Thursday morning in a shooting on North Main Street, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said.

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office is looking for a man in connection to a homicide investigation after a woman was found dead in a Southside apartment complex Tuesday night.

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday announced a man is now charged with murder after what police described as a “random” shooting this summer on the city’s Westside that left a resident dead.

New information has come to light amid a News4JAX I-TEAM investigation into a series of racist tweets from an account associated with the sergeant of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office Gang Unit. Members of the Jacksonville Brotherhood of Police Officers tell the I-TEAM that they made JSO aware of different racially insensitive tweets years ago, and a spokesperson said JSO did nothing to stop it.

More than a dozen Black pastors gathered on the steps of the Duval County Courthouse on Wednesday, demanding a more extensive investigation into a Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office sergeant’s social media pages and what other officers are posting in public.

Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Jacksonville Sheriff's OfficeA Florida sheriff’s office has launched an internal investigation into one of its own officers who’s been accused of sharing racist tweets online, including one post that insisted Black people were among “America’s biggest problems.”On Tuesday, Jacksonville Sheriff Pat Ivey told local news outlet First Coast News that the department was looking into social media posts linked to Sgt. Douglas Howell, a member of the

Jacksonville sheriff candidates on Tuesday condemned a series of racially insensitive tweets made by a Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office sergeant.

News4JAX learned that two more motorists were also hit during last Thursday’s police chase on the Westside that sent a woman to the hospital after a Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office squad car crashed into her vehicle.

The driver who led police on an 8-mile chase last week from the Paxon area down Roosevelt Boulevard before he crashed a stolen pickup truck in Ortega is 17 years old, according to an arrest report.

A man was arrested in connection with a deadly shooting last year in Arlington, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office announced Monday.

Around 1:45 on Sunday morning, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s office responded to a shooting at the intersection of McCormick Road and Kernan Boulevard.

A Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office officer was arrested Thursday in St. Johns County and accused of domestic battery, domestic strangulation and depriving the victim of the ability to call 911.

A man is dead after shooting a Jacksonville police officer and leading law enforcement officers on a chase Sunday night, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.

A police officer with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office was arrested on charges of official misconduct and grand theft, Undersheriff Nick Burgos announced Thursday.

A man in his early 40s was shot just after midnight Thursday on Norwood Drive, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said.

Staff members at a Jacksonville abortion clinic are asking for the FBI to investigate after an anti-abortion protest.

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday released body camera footage that recorded the events following a pursuit that began in Northwest Jacksonville and ended near the Jacksonville Zoo, where a police K-9 was shot and wounded.

Five people who hope to become the next sheriff of Jacksonville met together Wednesday night and answered your questions about the biggest issues facing the city.

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office provided an update Tuesday on its computer issues.

A man was killed Saturday night in a stabbing in the woods on Jacksonville’s Westside after police said two people reported he attacked them.

Authorities say a missing Jacksonville teenager was found safe.

K9s United Vice President Jay Nix said a new Florida law that the nonprofit helped pass allows first responders to take immediate action when a police dog is injured. That quick action Friday likely saved the life of Jacksonville Sheriff's Office K-9 Huk after he was shot in the line of duty.

A 15-year-old was taken into custody Saturday morning after police said he took six people, including children, hostage in an Oceanway home.

A dispute with jet skiers on a sandbar that escalated to a physical fight that left one of the jet skiers injured led to the arrest of a Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office Corrections Officer, according to a warrant obtained Friday by News4JAX.

A Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office corrections officer is charged with battery and improper exhibition of a firearm, Undersheriff Nick Burgos announced Thursday.

Mayor Lenny Curry is presenting his final budget proposal to the Jacksonville City Council with a big portion of the plan related to public safety.

Despite objections from JSO, officer Nicolas Gifford will return to his $71,000-a-year job after a city board ruled that his termination was unjust.