- Fredrick Tyrone Perryman Jr., a wanted man with active warrants from two counties, was arrested in Gainesville after attempting to flee from deputies in a Mercedes SUV and ramming their patrol units.
A wanted man with a history of running from police thought a Gainesville apartment complex parking lot was his best escape route on a Friday afternoon. He was wrong, and the deputies who boxed in his Mercedes SUV made sure of that.
On the afternoon of June 5, 2026, Alachua County Sheriff’s Office FOCUS deputies received real-time intelligence that 24-year-old Fredrick Tyrone Perryman Jr. was in the area of SW 34th Street in Gainesville. Perryman was not exactly a low-profile target. He was carrying active warrants from two separate counties, Volusia and Polk, on a list of charges that included multiple narcotics violations, tampering with evidence, and fleeing and eluding at high speed with reckless disregard for public safety. The last item on that list should have been a warning to deputies about what was coming next.
When deputies located Perryman behind the wheel of a black Mercedes SUV pulling into an apartment complex in the 700 block of SW 34th Street and moved to conduct a traffic stop, he did exactly what his warrant history suggested he would. He hit the gas in reverse, barreling backward through the parking lot in an attempt to escape. Two deputies moved quickly to box him in, positioning their vehicles on either side of the SUV. Perryman’s response was to ram both of them…