Man charged in Jacksonville officer-involved shooting tied to other robberies, police say
JSO Director of Investigations Mike Bruno said back-to-back robberies Monday are just two of at least six robberies 40-year-old Louis Rodriguez has been involved in. Author: Josslyn Howard Updated: 4:57 PM EST March 11, 2021
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. A man charged with the attempted murder of a Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office officer Monday may be connected to more than a half-dozen robberies, JSO said Tuesday.
JSO Director of Investigations Mike Bruno said back-to-back robberies Monday are just two of at least six robberies 40-year-old Luis Rodriguez has been involved in.
“Between March 2 and March 8 there were more than a half-dozen robberies to businesses,” Bruno said. “Our detectives noticed a pattern that was occurring in these robberies.”
Teddy bears stuffed with cocaine lead to 3 arrests
Cocaine was mailed from Puerto Rico to Jacksonville, investigators say
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Cocaine-stuffed teddy bears that were mailed from Puerto Rico to Jacksonville led to the arrests of three men, authorities said.
Edgar Ortiz Lopez, 28, Yaddiel Ortiz Lopez, 24, and Cassidy Martinez-Iglesias, 28, are charged with trafficking in cocaine and conspiring with another to traffic cocaine. Martinez-Iglesias also faces four counts of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
The arrests were announced by Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office Director of Investigations Mike Bruno at a news conference Thursday afternoon.
In January, Bruno said, JSO was alerted in January by postal inspectors of a suspicious package heading to an apartment complex on Mayport Road. Bruno said it turned out to contain a teddy bear filled with 2 kilograms of cocaine and an electronic tracker.
Police arrested two men seen brazenly carrying guns after a fight earlier this month in Riverside’s Five Points historic district, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said Thursday.