May 13, 2014
Investigators with Levy County
Sheriff’s Office took advantage of a break in a recent string of residential
burglaries in the Chiefland area. Investigators developed Brad Michael Shipley
- DOB 9-2-77 as a primary suspect in these cases. Shipley was stealing guns,
knives, fishing poles and other outdoor/hunting equipment and using
neighborhood kids to help him commit these crimes. Shipley threatened the kids
telling them if they told - they would go to jail with him.
Shipley’s plan unraveled when one
of the kids told his mother what he had been made to do. The mother contacted
LCSO and investigators seized the moment. Investigators were able recover
property from six residential burglaries in Levy
County , one burglary in Gilchrist County
and a storage shed burglary in Alachua
County
Shipley is being held in the Levy
County Detention Facility on an $810,000.00 bond.
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