Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Shedrick Deonte Weston, 25, was arrested yesterday after allegedly setting fire to a bag of candy inside the Gate store near the UF campus.
At about 9:16 a.m. on April 28, a Gainesville Police Department (GPD) officer responded to Gate (506 NW 13th Street), where a manager said his employees told him they saw a black male walking around inside the store, acting suspicious, before they noticed smoke coming from an endcap and found a bag of Skittles Gummies that was on fire. The manager said he stomped out the fire and then checked the surveillance cameras; surveillance video reportedly showed the man setting the bag of candy on fire. The manager saw the man leaving the store and called 911…