Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Tremel Hopkins, 23, was arrested early this morning on a warrant for car burglary after he was pulled over for a non-working headlight.
At about 2:39 a.m. on December 24, an Alachua County Sheriff’s Deputy conducted a traffic stop in Tower Oaks on a car with a non-working headlight; Hopkins was reportedly the driver. The officer cited Hopkins for driving without a valid license and arrested him on a 2022 warrant for car burglary.
On July 3, 2022, the victim reported to a Gainesville Police Department officer that she had parked her car at Boulware Springs Park before going for a walk; when she returned about 35 minutes later, she found that her glove compartment and center console were open and her purse was missing. The victim reported several fraudulent charges to the officer, and he followed up at the stores.
Two transactions were at the Green Apple liquor store, about 40 minutes after the robbery was discovered. Surveillance video of the cash register area clearly showed a man and a woman, and surveillance video of the parking lot showed the car they had been driving.