Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Dean Allen Harper, 55, was arrested yesterday on drug and firearm charges; when he was pulled over on November 21, he reportedly had a rifle with a rapid-fire trigger and a pistol with a homemade silencer in his vehicle, along with a book containing instructions for making bombs.
At about 3:11 p.m. on November 21, an Alachua County Sheriff’s Deputy conducted a traffic stop for a stop sign violation in the 7700 block of NE Waldo Road…