[PHOTO CREDIT: Lake County Sheriff’s Office]
[Original Publish Date: 05/08/20]
MOUNT DORA, Florida — A Mount Dora man accused of stealing a car that was later involved in a high-speed chase last year was arrested on a warrant for grand theft auto Tuesday.
In November 2019, Lake Legal News reported on the carjacking of an elderly woman in Mount Dora. Three males and one female allegedly carjacked the woman in the plaza that includes Dollar Tree and Hobby Lobby, took her red Lincoln SUV and fled. The Lake County Sheriff’s Office assisted in the search for the suspects and “Eagle One spotted [the suspects] switching cars,” Eustis Police Officer Lauren Brown told LLN in November.
The suspects got into a black Ford Fusion — a rental car — that was stolen from a home in Eustis. The woman who rented the car told police she and her boyfriend, Sheldon Lloyd Jackson Jr., went to Enterprise Rent-A-Car in Eustis to pick up her personal vehicle on Nov. 22, 2019. She drove the Ford while Jackson drove her vehicle and when they returned to her home she put the keys to the rental car in the cup holder of her personal vehicle, according to an arrest affidavit.
The woman told police she believes Jackson secretly took the keys before she dropped him off at an unknown location. Later that day, the woman received a call from her cousin who told her the car was missing from her home and she had seen Jackson driving the car on nearby Getford Road. About an hour later the woman’s cousin called back and told her the car was involved in a high-speed pursuit. Jackson was in the backseat of the car when the pursuit ended, the affidavit states.
Jackson, 23, was picked up in Mount Dora on the warrant Tuesday and taken to the Lake County Jail, where he was released on $2,000 bond.
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Our Editor-in-Chief, Marilyn M. Aciego, began writing for Lake Legal News in 2010. Born and raised in Lake County, she is a graduate of Umatilla High School and Lake-Sumter State College. She started her journalism career at LSSC, where she was editor of both student publications, The Angler and The Odyssey. Her professional career began at the Daily Commercial in 2004 where she covered cops and courts the majority of her time there until she left in 2009. Currently, along with being Editor-in-Chief of Lake Legal News, she is the Florida bureau chief for an international media organization. She has made more than two dozen appearances on live national television, including Nancy Grace and the Greta Van Susteren show, along with her appearance on Evil Twins. Contact her with breaking news, tips, and feedback by sending an e-mail to 352Tips@gmail.com. You can also contact us on our Facebook page — and make sure you “Like” and “Follow us” there. [PHOTO CREDIT: Bonnie Whicher]
