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Perp of the Day: Thief takes $48,000 diamond ring from Jacksonville store

In ongoing efforts to identify suspects, the Times-Union and law enforcement agencies will be occasionally posting surveillance photos of recent crimes.

Today's is from Nov. 8 at Jacksonville's Levy Jewelers, 10281 Midtown Parkway. An unidentified man walked into the store about 6 p.m. And asked about some watches, then asked to see something for his girlfriend. The employee showed him diamond rings, handing one to him. He took it and ran out the front door, around the corner and into a late-model, gray or silver Chrysler Town and Country minivan with another man, according to witnesses.

The stolen diamond ring is a 3.5-carat round cut valued at $48,000, according to police. Ref. Source 6

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Beaches police briefs: Man threatened with BB gun and bat

A 58-year-old man was charged with battery, assault, resisting a police officer without violence, disorderly intoxication and breach of peace following a disturbance about 11 p.m. Monday that ended with police using a Taser stun gun to subdue him in the 2000 block of Lakeview Court. Ref. Source 2

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Police: Auto theft possible motive in murder of two Lake City women

Auto theft may have been a motive in the Nov. 22 shooting deaths of two Lake City women in Jacksonville in the Grand Park neighborhood, following the Wednesday night arrest in Savannah of a 20-year-old man sought in the deaths, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office. Ref. Source 3

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FHP: Flagler Beach man in critical condition after driving through red light


A Flagler Beach man was in critical condition Tuesday morning after he drove through a red light and struck another vehicle, the Florida Highway Patrol said. Ref. Source 3

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Father of 3, second man slain in Jacksonville's 'Sin City'

Police searching for suspects in early morning attack at Willow Lakes Apartments in Arlington; mother of victim said she begged him to turn his life around Ref. Source 7

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Brunswick baby murder trial ends in hung jury

BRUNSWICK -- The murder trial of Daryl Keon Jones ended in a mistrial this morning when a Glynn County jury deadlocked on charges that he killed 17-month-old Brianna Kichelle Hester last year. Ref. Source 8

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Accused greenhouse thieves caught red-handed in Ware County

The suspected greenhouse thieves were nabbed by a Waycross police officer after stopping a pickup truck with a Florida license plate hauling a trailer loaded with galvanized steel tubing and I-beams, county Sheriff Randy Royal said. Ref. Source 2

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Mom struggles to understand after Jacksonville police shot her son

Jacksonville police shooting 20-year-old robbery suspect; K-9 also killed Ref. Source 5