{"id":298684,"date":"2026-06-06T21:42:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T21:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/298684\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T21:42:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T21:42:30","slug":"jacksonville-woman-pleads-not-guilty-to-intentionally-running-over-11-ducklings-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/298684\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville woman pleads not guilty to intentionally running over 11 ducklings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Jacksonville woman facing nearly a dozen felony animal cruelty charges for allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/jacksonville-woman-arrested-accused-intentionally-212334784.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:running over 11 baby ducks intentionally;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;running over 11 baby ducks intentionally&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">running over 11 baby ducks intentionally<\/a>, pleaded not guilty to all charges during her arraignment Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Beverly Sasberry, 64, is additionally charged with reckless driving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In court Thursday, prosecutors stated that no plea deal has been offered to Sasberry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On April 25, surveillance video recorded by neighbors on Tempest Street caught a red Honda Accord, believed to be driven by Sasberry, driving through the group of ducklings, and then turning around to do it again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Part of the video 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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission confirmed its officers were made aware of the incident involving Muscovy ducks. 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office, when a couple confronted Sasberry a few days after the incident, Sasberry told them she &#8220;intentionally killed the ducks because she was upset they made a mess in her yard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers later arrested Sasberry on Thursday, April 30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If convicted, Sasberry could be sentenced to up to 55 years in prison and would be placed on the state&#8217;s new <a href=\"https:\/\/web.fdle.state.fl.us\/dexter\/about.jsf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:animal cruelty registry;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;animal cruelty registry&quot;}\" class=\"link \">animal cruelty registry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sasberry will be back in court on June 25 at 9 a.m. for a pre-trial hearing. Her trial is set for Nov. 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Jacksonville woman facing nearly a dozen felony animal cruelty charges for allegedly running over 11 baby ducks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[111475,49120,15748,116,118,117,125628,6334],"class_list":["post-298684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-beverly-sasberry","tag-ducks","tag-florida-fish-and-wildlife-conservation-commission","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-muscovy-ducks","tag-reckless-driving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298684","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=298684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}