Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Tevin Octavius Campbell, 33, was arrested last night after allegedly running from a traffic stop because he had an active warrant for battery on a person over 65 years old.
At about 9 p.m. on December 24, an Alachua County Sheriff’s Deputy conducted a traffic stop at The Hammocks on 34th Street (3316 SW 41st Place), and Campbell, a passenger in the vehicle, was detained. The deputy reported that Campbell was making “unusual and furtive movements” and provided “an obviously false name and date of birth,” so he told him to get out of the car, but Campbell allegedly ran through a parking lot into a lightly wooded area; the deputy apprehended him after deploying his taser.
A small baggie of a substance Campbell called “molly” reportedly fell from his pocket, and a second baggie reportedly tested positive for MDMA and fentanyl; empty baggies were reportedly found in the vehicle.
Post Miranda, Campbell reportedly said he ran because he believed he was facing “thirty years [in prison]” if arrested on the warrant.