Press Releases
Chiefland Sex Offender Arrested
On November 13th, 2025, LCSO Detectives with the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) and Sex Offender Unit conducted a sexual offender compliance check on Bracey Lake Absher (7/10/86) in Chiefland, FL.
Ohio Sexual Offender Indicted on Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)
In April of 2025 Detectives Ryan Sullivan and Mary Weaver with the Levy County Sheriff’s Office ICAC / Sex Offender Unit received a complaint from a juvenile and her...
Chiefland Man Sentenced in 2023 Child Sex Crimes
On May 5, 2023 the Levy County Sheriff’s Office arrested John Harmon Jordan Jr. (2/20/63) of Chiefland on two counts of lewd and lascivious battery and two counts of...
Warrant Arrest Leads to Firearms Charges
On September 18, 2025 at approximately 8:00 in the evening, Levy County Deputies responded to an address in the 2200 block of SE State Road 121 in Morriston. Corporal...
Child Abuser Receives Sentence
In December of 2024, Detective Blake Landfair was assigned to investigate an accusation of sexual misconduct made against Tanner McDaniel (11/1/92). McDaniel, a church...
Sexual Predator Receives JUST Sentence
Jeffrey Lashley, 9/11/59 of Cedar Key, FL was arrested on July 1, 2025 for multiple violations of the sexual predator registration requirements. In 1996 Lashley was...
Inglis Man Sentenced to 35 Years for 2024 Murder
On 8/19/24, Brandon Tyler Capozzi (4/26/94) drove his motorcycle to victim, Carry Weeks’ property and shot him when Weeks walked down his driveway to speak to him....
Inglis Man Arrested for Burglary
Levy County Detectives developed probable cause through investigative efforts that George Zachary “Zack” Risher was responsible for a residential burglary in the City...
Archer Man Sentenced to 30 Years For 2024 Murder
On 9/8/24, Shawn Orr (7/27/63) called 911 to report that he located his wife, Eloida Davis, deceased. Orr directed responding emergency units to a wooded area along a...
Bronson Man Arrested for Trafficking Meth
Deputy Rich Peters was on patrol in Bronson on August 17th and stopped a Jeep for excessive speed. The driver, identified as Otis R. Johnson (9/6/77) of Bronson was...
Violent Felon Justin Bryant Sentenced
On May 30, 2024 Justin Bryant (6/29/88) of Morriston embarked on a drug fueled mission of murder. In a short time frame he brutally stabbed and cut four people in a...
Deputy Hospitalized After Fentanyl Exposure
eputies on patrol spotted a vehicle driven by Ashley Parkhouse (11/9/85) of Bronson on US Alt 27. Parkhouse is not a stranger to law enforcement and is known to have...