Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Jerome Christopher Mitchell, 43, was arrested yesterday for allegedly imprisoning a woman in a room at an abandoned hotel for about a week.
The victim told a Gainesville Police Department officer that about a week ago, Mitchell invited her to an abandoned hotel where he had been staying, but when she entered the hotel room, he started yelling at her and threatening her. She said he told her he would kill her if she left the room, so she stayed in the room out of fear until yesterday, when she managed to pry the door open and escape while Mitchell was gone…