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Sentence to be read in Brutnell embezzlement case on August 17th
In the matter of the State of Florida vs Raye Annette Brutnell, who resides in St Johns County, and is represented by Henry M Coxe III, whose place of business is given as Duval County, Historic City News can report from docket updates posted over the weekend, that both parties appeared at the courthouse in St Augustine on Thursday, May 13, 2021.
A total of 163 felony and misdemeanor charges were originally filed against Brutnell, the handpicked Director of Finance for the St Johns County Sheriff’s Office, on November 26, 2018. Brutnell confessed to Shoar that she acted entirely on her own with no help from co-workers or her husband, Mark Brutnell, a director for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
News Break: Plea deal and sentencing hearing this afternoon for former Director of Finance
Raye Annette Brutnell will appear at 2:00 p.m. this afternoon to enter a felony plea and sentencing in the criminal matter of the State of Florida vs Raye Annette Brutnell that began three years ago, on November 20, 2018. The case will be heard before Circuit Court Judge R. Lee Smith in courtroom 328.
What began as 163 felony and misdemeanor charges after the initial embezzlement investigation of Brutnell, the Director of Finance for former Sheriff David Shoar, has been whittled down to 11 felony charges:
GRAND THEFT OVER $100,000 (812.014 2a1)
GRAND THEFT OVER $20,000 (812.014 1 & 2)