Woman sentenced to 10 years in prison after jury finds her guilty of burglarizing former employer’s business
Staff report
NEWBERRY, Fla. – Carrie Elizabeth Webb, 46, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after a jury found her guilty of burglarizing a former employer’s business while wearing a mask to conceal her identity.
A sworn complaint filed by the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office stated that on June 29, 2023, Enos Nail Salon (13005 SW 1st Road, Suite 133, Newberry) was burglarized, and about $700 was stolen.
Webb had been fired from the business about a month before the burglary, and as part of her job, she tended to the cash collected by the business. Surveillance video showed Webb walking up to the business while wearing a mask, hoodie, and gloves, and entering a code into the key box; she took the key, unlocked the door, walked directly to the drawer where the bank bag was kept, and took $650 from the bank bag. Then she walked directly to the cash register and stole $50; the entire incident took two minutes.
By the time the sworn complaint was filed in April 2024, Webb had moved to New Smyrna Beach. She was arrested in St. Johns County about a week later and posted bail.
In March 2026, she was formally charged with burglary of an unoccupied structure while wearing a mask; the theft charge was not prosecuted.
On April 1, 2026, a jury found her guilty of burglary while wearing a mask to conceal her identity, and Judge Robert Groeb sentenced her to 10 years in state prison. Webb has appealed the verdict.
10 for burglary?
I am not condoning her actions at all and she needs to be punished for her crime, but I have seen where someone took another persons life and got less time than this. Makes you wonder if there was maybe a previous history of repeated behavior to warrant the time given.
It’s all about the mask.
No, it’s because she’s white.
We have clowns out there shooting and robbing people, killing each other in DUI car crashes who get maybe a year or two or probation time and time again. This woman steals $700 in an unoccupied business burglary and gets 10 years? Of course this behavior should be punished, but compared to the other crimes this sentence seems a tad harsh.
Your right, those other crimes should be punished MUCH more harshly
I suspect they previously offered her a plea deal with a much lower sentence, however, in general, when a suspect insists on a jury trial then they throw the book at them to make an example.
There are bicycles that cost more than 650.
Something’s wrong here.
10 years over pocket change,?
And no violence, no weapon, unoccupied building, no risk of confrontation of potential victims… Not complaining that a criminal is convicted and serving a long sentence. Just questioning why a similar crime where an equivalent amount of money is stolen (the bike stolen example earlier) is not prosecuted with similar zeal. It’s as though our courts and judges think that homeless/vagrant crime deserves leniency, while for some reason this individual gets the proverbial book thrown at her… for a mask? Robbing a former employer? What the hell makes her so much more troubling to the courts than the dozens, hundreds of criminals committing crimes that cause just as much misery to the victims?!?
Her biggest problem was, she wore a mask look up Florida law that enhances the charges second of all, she demanded a trial by jury turned down a plea deal. She rolled a dice and got screwed.
What a Webb we weave…🤔
The mask alone could not conceal the rest of her and that is hard to miss. I wouldn’t give this one a job in the prison kitchen if you care about your food costs.
She is a repeat offender, and that is why her sentence is so long. The employer was pretty dumb not to change the code to the key box after they fired her. We rekey the locks any time someone leaves, whether on good terms or bad.
Smart. Agree.
The reasoning behind the sentencing may be tge fact she has a local criminal history goung back to 1999. Both misdemeanors and felonies. Looking through them she had been given chance after chance but seeming still wants to steal.
The criminal history doesn’t seem to matter much in Alachua County. It seems that almost every crime I read about includes a resumes of 14 or 15 felonies…Why was this person singles out?
As others have said: in this county, if you go to a jury trial and the jury finds you guilty, you’re going to get a hefty sentence, often the max. That’s all that’s going on here.
If she had taken a plea deal, she would have gotten the light sentences we see in so many local cases.
It’s all about the mask… wearing a mask in Florida while committing a crime kicks it up to the next level. In this case, the next level felony. The statute is there as it shows this was planned (very much intended) and the criminal was actively trying to conceal their identity.