Jacksonville Sheriff's Office

Let’s talk tags, Jacksonville.

Officer Tanner May with our Traffic Enforcement Unit has this reminder: we need to be able to see your license plate. If you have something on the back of your car that blocks your license plate, your tag needs to be attached to the outside of it.

Most attachments have a spot to attach your tag to it, so use it. If you don’t, then you may get a ticket.

Drive safe, Duval.

Today is Boater Skip Day and while everyone else is skipping work, our Marine Unit is on the job on the water keeping boaters safe.

Our officers, partnering with other local and state agencies, have been up and down our waterways to make sure everyone is celebrating safely and responsibly.

Whether you're spending the day cruising or anchored, having the proper safety equipment on board, staying alert, and a designated sober boater are necessities. Boating under the influence is a crime and can cost lives. Don’t let a fun day on the water end with you in hot water.

Boat safe, Duval.

Buying or selling on Facebook Marketplace? Don’t fall victim to a crime.

In the past nine weeks, we’ve responded to 12 dirt bike thefts, all following a similar pattern. A buyer reaches out on Facebook Marketplace, offering to buy the bike. When the seller and buyer meet, the buyer asks to take a test drive and then drives off with the bike before actually paying.

We don’t want anyone losing their property this way. Here’s our advice:

-If the buyer asks to test drive the dirt bike without giving you money first, say no.

-Don’t meet in a secluded location. Our six district substations and our Police Memorial Building downtown are always available for meetups. If they don’t want to meet at our substations, that’s a red flag. Check the comments for the addresses of these safe meetup spots to find the one closest to you.

-Take screenshots of your messages and take a photo of the person when you meet up. If something happens, you now have evidence you can bring directly to us.

This advice doesn’t just apply to dirt bikes. Shop safely, and if something ever goes wrong during an online sale, we’re just a call away.

And if you’re stealing dirt bikes (or anything else) from people on Facebook Marketplace, we won’t let you get away with it.

It’s body-worn camera video that reached millions of people across the world: District 2 and District 6 Patrol officers working together to save a young man ready to take his own life on the Dames Point Bridge. We’re proud to report that the young man is doing well today.

In this episode of Inside JSO, we’re sitting down with three officers who played a pivotal role in saving the young man’s life: Officer Antonio Richardson, Officer Joseph Neighbor, and Officer Brandon Creighton. Our officers share their perspectives on the incident, their thoughts when the video went viral, and their messages to anyone else who is struggling.

You can watch the video version of this episode of Inside JSO on our YouTube page and find the audio version on your favorite podcast platform.

It’s something we hear every single day. Scammers are spoofing our numbers, calling to demand money for missed jury duty or to get out of a warrant. Let us be clear: we are too busy doing our jobs to be calling to demand money from you.

If you ever get a call from someone claiming to be from the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office and they ask you for money, we give you permission to hit the big red button on your phone and hang up!

Believer us, scam calls frustrate us too. Scammers are using our information to take advantage of you. Not cool.

Here’s our advice: if you ever get a call from someone claiming to work for our agency, hang up, and give us a call (904.630.0500). If it really was someone from our agency looking to speak with you, we’ll connect your call. If not, you can rest easy knowing you didn’t fall for a scam.

Are you ready to join us in our fight to stop crime and make our community safer?

We’ve told you all about our Unsolved Crimes page, a public website where we share our B.O.L.O., or ‘be on the lookout’, images in the hopes you can help us identify them. Since launching our Unsolved Crimes page three years ago, you have helped us identify more than 600 suspects.

Now, we’re expanding our website with the inclusion of our Wanted and Missing Persons pages. On our Wanted page, you’ll find people with active warrants we’re looking for. On our Missing Persons page, you’ll find information about some of our missing persons cases.

We launched the Missing Persons and Wanted pages in March, and we've already seen success. Since March, we recovered 17 missing people from the Missing Persons page and arrested 92 people from the Wanted page.

The best part? If you share information that leads us to finding someone on our Unsolved, Wanted, or Missing Persons pages, you could be eligible for a cash reward. Just call our partners at First Coast Crime Stoppers (1.866.845.TIPS) to report what you know anonymously.