Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Candice Shantell Patrick, 35, an attorney from Collin, Texas, has been arrested for breaking into a Gainesville home while the residents were sleeping; she claimed she was trying to recover a “spiritual stick” that one of the residents had taken from her at a recent “Ancestral Spirits” convention.
At about 5:12 a.m. on June 22, Gainesville Police Department officers responded to a residence at St. Croix Apartments (829 SW 5th Avenue), where the victims said they had been asleep when they heard someone banging on their back door with a stick…