{"id":253479,"date":"2026-05-01T04:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T04:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/253479\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T04:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T04:31:10","slug":"jacksonville-woman-arrested-accused-of-intentionally-running-over-11-ducklings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/253479\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville woman arrested, accused of intentionally running over 11 ducklings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surveillance video captured by neighbors shows a red car, allegedly driven by 64-year-old Beverly Sasberry, driving over the group of ducklings multiple times.<\/p>\n<p>JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A Westside woman is facing nearly a dozen felony charges after allegedly running over 11 baby ducks intentionally.<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance video recorded by neighbors on Tempest Street shows a red Honda Accord, believed to be owned by 64-year-old Beverly Sasberry, driving through the group of ducklings, and then turning around to do it again.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the video from April 25 shows several ducklings lying in the street, with the mother duck and two other ducklings running to escape the car as it comes back around.<\/p>\n<p>                                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                                &#13;<br \/>\n                                                    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"video__modal-close-icon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.firstcoastnews.com\/assets\/shared-images\/icons\/close-menu.svg\" alt=\"x\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n                                                &#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"video__modal-message\">To stream FCN on your phone, you need the FCN app.<\/p>\n<p>                                                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"video__modal-thumbnail\" src=\"\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                                        Download the FCN app<\/p>\n<p>                                                            <a class=\"video__modal-app-link video__modal-app-link_type_ios\" href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/first-coast-news-jacksonville\/id469738478?ls=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                                                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.firstcoastnews.com\/assets\/shared-images\/icons\/badge-app-store.svg\" alt=\"Download on the App Store\" width=\"120\" height=\"40\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n                                                            <\/a><br \/>\n                                                            <a class=\"video__modal-app-link video__modal-app-link_type_android\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.gannett.local.library.news.wtlv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                                                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.firstcoastnews.com\/assets\/shared-images\/icons\/badge-google-play.svg\" alt=\"Get it on Google Play\" width=\"135\" height=\"40\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n                                                            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                                &#13;<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission confirmed its officers were made aware of the incident involving Muscovy ducks. Based on preliminary information, FWC said it learned that &#8220;residents asked the woman to stop, but she continued her attempts to strike the Muscovy ducks,&#8221; the agency wrote in a statement to First Coast News.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office is leading the cruelty investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The couple confronted the woman a few days later, and she told them she intentionally killed the ducks because she was upset they made a mess in her yard,&#8221; the sheriff&#8217;s office said.<\/p>\n<p>Sasberry&#8217;s car was pulled over by officers on Thursday, April 30, according to the sheriff&#8217;s office, and she was arrested on 11 felony counts of animal cruelty.<\/p>\n<p>If convicted, Sasberry would be placed on the state&#8217;s new <a href=\"https:\/\/web.fdle.state.fl.us\/dexter\/about.jsf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">animal cruelty registry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We do not take animal cruelty cases lightly. If you see someone committing a crime against an animal, please give us a call (904.630.0500),&#8221; JSO wrote in a social media post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surveillance video captured by neighbors shows a red car, allegedly driven by 64-year-old Beverly Sasberry, driving over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-253479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}