Someone purchased as many as 12 packages of ready-to-use enema saline laxatives from CVS on San Jose Boulevard and later returned what appeared to be unused enema packages to the Jacksonville store.

They were not unused.

A suspect has been arrested on an unrelated outstanding warrant, police said. His name has not been released.

In early June a CVS employee thought it was strange someone was returning the same product so decided to check inside. All six enemas had been used and the package resealed.

Other packages that had been returned and put back on the shelf showed the same results, police said.

Samples were taken of the fluid in the returned enema bottles and sent to the Florida Department of Health for testing. Fecal matter was found on some of the returned bottles.

The man's vehicle tag number, coupled with him buying an enema package with a credit card, led authorities to the suspect.

A CVS spokesman said the store is trying to contact the 21 customers identified as possibly purchasing any of the soiled products.

Anyone who thinks they may have purchased a tampered enema between April 10 and June 12 should contact CVS at (866) 559-8861.



William Browning

Barbershop shooting suspect in car chase

A man wanted for questioning in the June 4 shooting at an Eastside barbershop in which three men were wounded has been arrested in a Jacksonville police sting.

The shooting in the 800 block of A. Philip Randolph Boulevard "led to a series of related, retaliatory shootings," police said.

Rashane L. Jones, 26, was arrested Tuesday by the police's gang investigations unit.

Jones was identified as he approached a car in front of a home on East 16th Street about 11 a.m., the report said. When officers moved in to block the vehicle, Jones jumped into it and drove straight at both of the officers forcing them to swerve to avoid being rammed head-on, the report said.

Jones ran several stop signs as he fled from police. An officer then performed a maneuver causing Jones to crash, according to the report.

Police said they found a semi-automatic pistol in the back seat.

Jones had outstanding warrants for possession of cocaine, fleeing the scene of a vehicle crash, attempting to elude law enforcement and habitual driving while license suspended. This was his 24th arrest in Jacksonville since 2003, jail records show.

Clifford Davis

48 years for man who attacked woman

A 26-year-old man was sentenced to 48 years in prison Thursday after pleading guilty in April to sexual battery and other charges.

Anthony Brown received the sentence for sexual battery, aggravated battery, robbery, battery and possession of cocaine. Brown was also identified as a habitual offender.

He and an unknown man followed a woman from a Beaches bar in July 2010, hitting her on the head and knocking her unconscious.

They sexually battered her before stealing her purse and fleeing, according to the State Attorney's Office.

Dan Scanlan

Woman injured when car flips on Beach

A woman is in life-threatening condition after flipping her car on Beach Boulevard about 9:20 p.m. Wednesday.

She was eastbound when her car left the road for unknown reasons, struck a fire hydrant, overturned and came to rest in a ditch just before Southside Boulevard, Jacksonville police said.

The unidentified woman was found unresponsive and taken to a hospital.

Clifford Davis