Jessica Kreitzer was returning to Gainesville from the Jacksonville airport last month, driving through the familiar speed limit drops in Lawtey, when she noticed a young Black man pulled over by ...

LAWTEY, Fla. -- A Lawtey police officer tased an apparently mentally ill man who charged at him on U.S. 301 in Bradford County Tuesday morning, according to a police report. The incident made ...

The Lawtey Police Department is working to get rid of its famous reputation of being one of the nation's only speed traps. A lengthy CNN article in 2014 described law enforcement in that part of ...

LAWTEY, Fla. – Lawtey Police Chief Millard M. "Butch" Jordan has died. Jordan is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest serving chief of police, having served for 51 years and 243 ...

A Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office patrol vehicle blocks access near the scene where a man was shot early Monday morning during a fight inside a nearby business, police said. LAWTEY, Fla. – In the entire ...

BRADFORD COUNTY, Fla. — Bradford County Sheriff Gordon Smith shared on his Facebook page a recent confrontation a Lawtey police officer had with a 60-year-old subject that "aggressively" approached ...

• WUFT News: Lawtey police threatened to arrest a traffic stop bystander. What we can learn from the incident. "Lawtey Police Capt. Nathan Blom backed the officers’ response. He said (Jessica) ...

I was reading some of the articles you have posted on your Web site about Lawtey and Waldo being a speed trap. I am the captain of the Lawtey Police Department and will be more than happy to welcome ...

When some speeders were pulled over in Lawtey recently, they got an option that most lawbreakers don't get - and it wasn't legal, investigators said. A part-time officer with the Lawtey Police ...