Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Corey Lemar Howell, 44, was arrested early this morning and charged with breaking into a house on March 27, demanding car keys from a resident of the house, and stealing a car.
At about 5:50 a.m. on March 27, a Gainesville Police Department officer responded to a home in the Kirkwood neighborhood off SW 13th Street, where the victim said she was in the bathroom when she heard a loud bang, then the bathroom door opened and a man told her not to scream. She said the man had a hand in the back of his shirt as if he had a weapon and forced her to give him her car keys; she said the man said he was in trouble with the law and needed a car…