Gainesville FL

Demetris Demond Johnson, 32, was arrested yesterday for allegedly taking a bag from a City of Gainesville vehicle, pawning City property, and stealing items belonging to a City employee. The post Homeless man arrested for stealing worker’s personal belongings and City property from City vehicle appeared first on...

Gainesville Police Department is asking the public for help in identifying the man in the red shirt above, who is a suspect in vehicle burglary cases in northwest Gainesville, close to Westside Park (Albert "Ray" Massey Park, 1001 NW 34th Street). The post GPD seeks help in identifying suspect in car burglaries near...

A 51-year-old Marion County man is facing over a dozen charges after he allegedly sold numerous pieces of jewelry that were stolen from his girlfriend’s home. The female victim told the Marion County Sheriff’s Office that the theft occurred on July 21. She advised that she left her home that afternoon at around 2...

OCALA, Fla. (WCJB) - A precautionary boil water notice is in effect for part of Marion County that includes Lake Weir High School. County officials say they are making repairs to a water main in the Lakeview Hills area. Water pressure was temporarily stopped, but has been restored.

A scary man was arrested after refusing to leave a local Circle K. A Marion County sheriff’s deputy responded at about 6 a.m. Thursday to the Circle K at U.S. Hwy. 27 at Sunset Harbor Road in Summerfield where 42-year-old Brian Luther had refused to leave the premises. The...

Ocala Police Department officers and Marion County Sheriff’s Office deputies will no longer enforce a law that prohibited the open carry of firearms in Florida, just days after it was deemed unconstitutional by an appeals court. On Thursday, Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods issued a video statement confirming that...

Earlier today, GnvInfo republished a press release from Alachua County Sheriff Chad Scott regarding the Florida 1st District Court of Appeals' ruling that openly carrying a firearm is legally acceptable under the U.S. constitution. GnvInfo republished a version of the press release that the Sheriff posted on...

Every time Joseph Ladapo cheapens UF’s name and reputation I ask myself two questions:. Actually, they’re rhetorical questions. I know what they would have done and said about Ladapo – Florida’s Surgeon General and highly paid UF medical faculty member – comparing vaccines to slavery and vowing to rid public schools...

OCALA, Fla. (WCJB) - A woman is back in the Marion County Jail as charges move forward relating to a deadly DUI crash. Sheriff’s deputies say Janice Schwarz, 34, hit a 37-year-old man riding a bicycle on State Road 25 near Southeast 80th Court on June 7. She was...

A 43-year-old Ocala man with a prior theft conviction was arrested at a local Duke Energy substation after he was allegedly caught stealing a metal fence post. On Wednesday, September 10, a Marion County Sheriff’s Office corporal was on patrol in the 3000 block of W Highway 326 in Ocala when a man was observed inside...