- March 16, 2025
Paul Miller, Cassimiro Tavares and William Copeland were issued pretrial continuances July 11.
Four felony trials were brought to court Wednesday, July 11, with three of the four issued pretrial continuances for August and the last scheduled a trial starting date of July 23.
The only case of the four that was ready for trial was that of Jason Michael Peters, a 19-year-old who was arrested on Christmas Eve for discharging a revolver into an occupied R-section home in Palm Coast.
Also charged with aggravated assault, Peters was scheduled a docket call date of 1:30 p.m. Thursday, July 19, to ensure that all parties are ready as scheduled, to begin trial July 23. Peters will be prosecuted by Assistant State Attorney Kenneth Ulich.
The other three felony cases were all issued pretrial continuances until Aug. 1.
The first case was for Paul Miller, a Flagler Beach man who was charged in March with shooting his neighbor, Dana Mulhall, following a barking dog disturbance.
Miller told officers that Mulhall made threatening gestures, so he fired five shots at him, three of which hit Mulhall, with a 9 mm handgun, according to the police report.
Prosecuted by Assistant State Attorney Mark Johnson, Miller’s case was issued a continuance for Aug. 1 pretrial, with depositions planned for July 18 and July 19.
Cassimiro Tavares, a 68-year-old Palm Coast man arrested for stealing more than $20,000 from a Bunnell business, was also issued a pretrial continuance, slated for Aug. 1. Tavares is also being prosecuted by Ulich.
Charged with extortion, grand theft and forgery, Tavares began scamming A&T Auto Repair Inc., where he was the manager, in 2008, according to the Bunnell Police Department. A&T owner Andrzej Tyminski told officers that he estimated Tavares had stolen between $2,800 and $4,500 per month from him and forged signatures on 36 checks between 2008 and 2010.
In a case that dates back to May 2011, William Copeland, a Palm Coast man suspected of shooting three shots into an L-section home and wounding his girlfriend’s father, was issued a pretrial continuance to next month.
With documented cases of domestic violence on his record, Copeland, 20, fled arrest, resulting in cooperation from the U.S. Marshals Service, the Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force and the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office to bring him in. He will be prosecuted by Johnson, as well.
Contact Mike Cavaliere at [email protected].
