February 13, 2023
On February 6, 2023 Detectives responded to a local hospital after receiving a call that a female was admitted with multiple injuries related to an assault. Detectives interviewed the victim and learned the victim conversed and later met Williston resident Travis D. Dallas (3/11/74) through an on-line chat. Dallas was attempting to scam the victim during these chat sessions.
Dallas and the victim met at a location in Williston in mid-January. He refused to let her leave and physically battered the victim over a period of time. He used a knife to threaten her and struck her with a cinder block in his attempts to obtain more money from her. As a result of these injuries the victim has been hospitalized and undergone surgery.
Dallas was located and arrested for three separate warrants obtained during this investigation on February 10, 2023. He has been charged with felony battery, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, false imprisonment and felony battery-repeat offender. He is being held in the Levy County Detention Center in lieu of a $200,000.00 bond.