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Dugger: Insecure children seek acceptance Flakka: New dangerous synthetic drug............ 8 FUGITIVES of peers.............................................................2 Can You Help Us Hats Off: Kevin Smalls.........................................9 CAPTURED 2759 Protect and Serve.............................................3 Unsolved Murders/Missing Persons............10,11 Family Support Services Missing Children.....4 Find These Missing JSO Most Wanted..............................................13 MISSING In the Spotlight: Roger Delaney.......................5 Children? Busted, Nassau Most Wanted...........................14 PERSONS Welcome: Mayor Curry and Sheriff Williams....7 Baker, Bradford, Clay, St Johns Wanted...........15 FOUND 179 Summary of U.S. Constitution..........................8 See page 4 Special Thanks..................................................16 AVAILABLE ONLINE 24/7 J U LY 2 015 WWW.JUSTICECOALITION.ORG Volume 22 • Number 16 • FREE Defining Cab driver’s killer receives life sentences Premeditated Murder Judge commends victim’s daughter for her courage in court By Jay Howell, Esq. By Cam Brown In a recent Clay County Kelly Carson and her three case the defendant was children will never have to worry charged with attempted mur - again about the man who mur - der in the first degree as a re - dered her husband Stuart sult of his involvement in “Buddy” Carson. His killer is now events that occurred on an Au - in prison for life for shooting Stu - gust night in 2011. The State’s art in the head and robbing him first witness testified that, on last year after Stuart picked him the night in question, he was up in his cab. promoting an event at a night - “Thank God” mouthed Kelly club in Orange Park. He testi - Carson as she heard a jury find fied that he had intervened in some minor disputes Rohbanni Martiel Chevez Wilson, that transpired during the evening and that, when 24, guilty after only an hour and a closing time arrived, he was outside in the parking half of deliberations. She sobbed lot and saw a patron exiting the nightclub and argu - softly as a horrendous year had ing with people inside a vehicle that was leaving the come to a close. parking lot. Wilson received a mandatory He stated that he saw a vehicle stop and a person life sentence for first-degree mur - emerge from the rear passenger seat and fire four der, as well as life in prison for one rounds from a gun, hitting the exiting patron once count of armed robbery and 15 in the stomach. He said the shooting occurred ex - years for possession of a firearm Treasured Carson family photo: Stuart and Kelly with children Christopher (top left), tremely quickly and that the only person he saw by a convicted felon. The sen - Dylan (bottom left) and Kayla (bottom right) with a firearm was the shooter. Finally, he testified tences will run concurrently. that he believed the shooter was one of the individ - It was at the sentencing hear - uals he had tried to calm down earlier in the night, ing when family members were Senior Crime Victim Advocate least your daughter can visit you but he was not certain. The State introduced surveil - able to look the killer in the eye Lysa Telzer by her side and ad - in jail. I can't visit my daddy in lance video from the club that depicted what ap - and tell him how Stuart’s murder dressed Wilson directly. “You took heaven,” said Kayla. “I wish I peared to be the shooting itself, though there was no had affected them. away the best daddy ever…He lit could wake up every morning and sound and it did not show the participants’ faces. “I miss him every moment of up the whole room with his see him on the couch and tell him Law enforcement witnesses testified about col - every day. He was the love of my smile…Just think, if you didn't I love him, and I can't because of lecting evidence from the scene, including spent life, my everything,” Kelly Carson pull that trigger, you could be you." shell casings and projectiles, as well as locating and said of her husband. with your daughter and living a Judge Mark Borello was so detaining the vehicle described in the shooting, Kayla Carson, 13, read her im - good life. Well, we all could be. Cab driver along with its passengers. The State also introduced pact statement with the support of But because of you, we can't. At (Continued on page 5) recordings of several telephone calls the defendant made from the jail, including potentially inculpatory [incriminating] statements. The victim testified that he was at the club, but New synthetic that he had no problems with anyone and that he ex - ited the club at closing time. On his way out he at - drug: Flakka tempted to speak with a female, but she did not acknowledge him and so he proceeded on his way. He saw her get into a gray vehicle with several other Pam Bondi, Attorney General people that he did not know. The victim stated that main ingredient, Alpha-PVP, was clothes and jumped through a the vehicle pulled past him quickly, “kind of like it Tallahassee, Fla. – As many outlawed in 2012 after I worked closed window. was fixing to hit me,” which prompted the victim to public schools close for summer with law enforcement and state As summer break begins for say something toward the vehicle. The vehicle occu - break this week, I want to warn lawmakers to ban a number of many students, I urge parents to pants said something back and he responded. The parents about the danger of chemical compounds. Flakka is talk to their children about the victim testified that the vehicle drove on a bit, that Flakka, a synthetic drug that can sometimes referred to as Gravel dangers of this deadly synthetic he heard arguing, and that he looked back and be purchased online and is grow - because it often looks like small drug. If you suspect your child is “threw my hands up to try and figure what was ing in popularity in Florida. Flakka white rocks. It can also be pur - using Flakka, call your local law going on as I looked at them...and the next thing I causes delusions, hallucinations chased in powder form and is usu - enforcement agency and crisis in - know I hear shots.” He stated he was shot once in and can increase body tempera - ally sold in small clear packages. tervention center. If your child is the stomach by a male who exited the rear passenger ture to a dangerous level. It is a Reports of Flakka use in Florida having a medical emergency, call door of the vehicle and he gave an in-court identifi - bath salt that can be snorted, swal - have spiked in recent months. Ac - 911 immediately. cation of the defendant as the shooter. lowed, injected, smoked or vaped cording to reports, one man im - The jury found the defendant shooter guilty of using an electronic cigarette. Like paled himself on a 10-foot-high June 19, 2015 attempted first degree murder. The judge sentenced all bath salts, Flakka can cause security fence outside of a police Tallahassee, Fla . – This week I him to 45 years in prison, pursuant to the 10/20/Life chest pains, irregular heartbeats, station after taking the drug, joined federal authorities to an - Statute. He appealed his conviction, arguing that the increased blood pressure, agita - adamant that he was being pur - nounce the charges of 73 South State failed to present adequate circumstantial evi - tion, muscle breakdown and sued and asked to be incarcerated Flori da residents for their alleg ed seizures. Flakka use can also cause dence of premeditation. for protection. Another incident in - participation in various schemes to suicidal thoughts and violence. Premeditated Murder volved a teen, reportedly high on Flakka (Continued on page 4) Flakka is not a new drug. Its Flakka, who stripped off her (Continued on page 4) The views, opinions and positions The Justice Coalition is a grass roots, non-profit (501(c)3), non-partisan organization that operates on contributions, expressed in articles submitted by monthly and/or periodic proceeds from fundraising events and newspaper advertisements, etc. Please help us continue our advocacy for contributors to the Victims' Advocate newspaper do not nec - innocent victims of violent crime in NE Florida. Visit our website at www.justicecoalition.org or call (904)783-6312 to see how you can be a part of this vital service. essarily reflect the views of the Justice Coalition Not belonging makes children vulnerable to bad influences By Ann Dugger, Executive Director the main cause. We read statistics So he’s full of secrets he’s trying to first can raise happy, well-adjusted Justice Coalition about declining church attendance, in - keep, and in a stressful moment blurts children. When you have kids it's not creasing divorce rates, and the preva - out what he’s been told by his father. about you anymore!” It seems – one lence of single-parent families. It’s Now his mother is angry and he feels I admire the young man we are way or another – I amazing, but not surprising, that these he’s lost her love. He too becomes featuring this month in Hats Off: write almost every same statistics correlate to how many angry and feels bereft, not included in Kevin Smalls, a recent graduate of Pot - month about chil - prison inmates grew up without a the family, depressed and lonely. ter’s House Christian Academy. Assis - dren, but their wel - strong father figure in their lives to set Living in this uncertain world into tant Principal Lela Johnson spoke fare is a matter that a positive example and help form good which they have been thrust, children highly of his parents who are always weighs heavily on character.

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