JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – First Coast Crime Stoppers said Thursday that the 2025-26 fiscal year was one of the most successful in the organization’s history, with anonymous tips from the public leading to hundreds of arrests, the clearance of hundreds of cases and nearly $2 million in criminal assets removed from Northeast Florida communities.
The group said it received 3,035 anonymous tips between July 1, 2025, and June 30, 2026 — the most since 2021 — and approved $124,900 in cash rewards for tipsters, the most since 2012.
Information from anonymous tips led to 213 arrests, the most since 2014, and the clearing of 615 criminal cases, the highest total since 2009. The organization credited tips with helping solve three homicides, bringing its lifetime total to 140 homicides solved…