Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Niyani Arcola Markham, 22, has been charged with property damage and two incidents of battery, all inside the Alachua County Jail, in the past two weeks; the charges are on top of a July charge for battery on another inmate and charges from January, February, and March for possession of drug paraphernalia.
Markham was most recently arrested on March 19 for kicking two officers while they were trying to arrest her for possession of drug paraphernalia. At the time, she had two misdemeanor convictions and was on pre-trial release from January and February arrests for resisting an officer without violence and possession of drug paraphernalia (the arrests were for separate incidents but carried the same charges); Judge Kristine Van Vorst set bail at $57,500 on the new charges, which included three felonies: two counts of battery on a law enforcement officer and resisting an officer with violence…