Man on probation arrested for carjacking and domestic battery

Staff report

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Lorenzo Joshua Johnson Jr., 22, was arrested on Sunday and charged with carjacking and domestic battery after he allegedly forcibly took a woman’s car, hit her, and choked her.

On Saturday afternoon, January 3, Alachua County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a panic alarm at Bellamay Grand Apartments (2625 SW 75th Street), where witnesses said they had seen a physical fight between a man and a woman before both of them left in a black Kia. Deputies reportedly found blood and damaged items near the victim’s apartment, and witnesses reported that the woman had been spitting blood from her mouth as she fled…

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