Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Jonathan Alexander Quino, 23, was arrested yesterday for allegedly stealing a car from a friend, crashing it into a pond near Celebration Pointe, and stealing the tag.
On September 1, an Alachua County Sheriff’s Deputy responded to a hit-and-run crash and found a Toyota abandoned in a pond near Celebration Pointe. Witnesses said the driver had run northbound through the parking lot, carrying the tag, and the deputy saw a tall, slim Hispanic male running from the scene of the crash. The deputy gave commands for the man to stop, but he kept running; the deputy reported that the Toyota’s tag was later found in the woods near where the man had fled…