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Today, Gainesville Police Department patrol officers, with the assistance of K-9 and drone teams, located and arrested Roger Edward Giles, 41, in a wooded area off of NE 53rd Avenue. Giles was wanted for escaping from Keeton Correctional. The post GPD arrests escaped prisoner in the woods off of NE 53rd Avenue...

D'Andre Vanshon Jemel Anderson, 29, was arrested on Wednesday and charged with aggravated assault after allegedly threatening a convenience store clerk with a mop handle. The post Man on pre-trial release arrested for threatening store clerk with a mop handle appeared first on Alachua Chronicle .

Two Florida women were arrested after deputies responded to a report of a pair of 5-year-old children found abandoned and locked inside a shed, according to the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies responded to a call early Saturday from a concerned citizen. The person reported that two children had been found...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - Gainesville police say one escaped inmate will miss the fireworks this Fourth of July. Officers say they found and arrested Roger Giles in the woods along Northeast 53rd Avenue Friday. GPD officers say he escaped from Keeton Correctional.

A Florida sheriff’s deputy was was in the right place at the right time to catch a suspect accused of stealing from a gas station while he was refueling his patrol vehicle. The Marion County Sheriff’s Office said Corporal Michael Stringer was pumping gas at the 7-Eleven on the 9400 block of SE Baseline Road […]

MARION COUNTY, Fla. - A "highly intoxicated" Florida man has been arrested after he allegedly threw a piece of concrete, a metal pipe and a machete at another man. Deputies with the Marion County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) responded to a physical disturbance on Monday at a home in Dunnellon. Once...

LOWELL, Fla. — People living in Lowell are one step closer to cleaner water. Marion County received $2 million from the state to go towards its Lowell municipal water project. Marion County is working on implementing a 12-inch water line extension with valves, fire hydrants and a water booster...

Attorneys representing the Marion County School Board have filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit from two Ocala parents who claim a teacher allegedly bullied their son before he committed suicide in 2023. The motion to dismiss was filed in the Fifth Judicial Circuit Court of Marion County on Tuesday,...

Kendrick Rashaed Bullard, 33, was arrested early this morning after allegedly fleeing from a traffic stop into an acquaintance's apartment and then forcing the occupants, including a 16-year-old, to sit in the bathroom of their apartment for over two hours until officers forced entry into the apartment. The post Man...

According to Alachua County Sheriff’s officials, deputies arrived on scene in the parking lot of Bonefish Grill just before 10 p.m. DJ’s Cast Iron Burgers in Gainesville is launching the Lagway Burger. Mother creates petition to pass Florida law requiring toxicology tests after fatal crash. Updated: 12 hours...