Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Abby S. Farley, 33, and Isaiah Dominick Pace, 32, were arrested late last night after an officer reportedly saw Pace get into Farley’s car wearing a ski mask and carrying a gun.
At about 10:30 p.m. last night, Gainesville Police Department Officers responded to calls from multiple people about a man walking through apartment buildings at Woodland Park with a gun in his hand. The callers said the suspect was a black male wearing a ski mask; one caller said the man told them to go back inside their home.
Multiple units responded, and one caller who stayed on the phone told the dispatcher that the man had gotten into a car. The vehicle was stopped as it left the complex, and Pace, who was sitting behind the driver, was reportedly seen reaching down between his legs. When he was ordered out of the car, he reportedly said, “It’s a BB gun.”
A realistic-looking plastic pistol was reportedly found in the back pocket of the driver’s seat.
Post Miranda, Pace reportedly said he was visiting family who lived in the complex, but he was unable to provide any apartment numbers. He said the mask was a “COVID mask” that he wears all the time. He was reportedly unable to explain why he was wearing the mask and carrying a gun to visit family.