Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Chadrick Rodell Smith Jr., 28, was arrested early this morning after allegedly hitting a 65-year-old woman with a metal trash can lid because she was making too much noise and he could not sleep.
At about 1:10 a.m. on August 22, a Gainesville Police Department officer responded to the Rosa Parks Transfer Station (700 SE 3rd Street), where Smith, the victim, and a witness were trying to sleep on adjacent benches…