Jail inmate charged with illegally calling victim 70 times in 7 days

Staff report

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Lorenzo Joshua Johnson Jr., 22, who was arrested on January 4 for domestic battery and carjacking, has now been charged with 40 counts of violating his pre-trial release conditions by calling his victim approximately 70 times in seven days from the jail in an effort to get her to drop the charges.

Johnson was arrested on January 4 and charged with domestic battery and carjacking after he allegedly forcibly took a woman’s car, hit her, and choked her. He appeared before Judge Meshon Rawls on January 5 and was ordered to have no contact with the victim…

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