Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Dwight Leon Jenkins Jr., 37, was arrested yesterday after allegedly making a 911 call to report a shooting in another neighborhood in an attempt to divert the police from his location; he was also arrested on warrants for five shoplifting incidents.
At about 9:28 a.m. on March 17, Gainesville Police Department officers responded to a vacant apartment in Pineridge where Jenkins had been squatting; they surrounded the apartment in an attempt to serve five active warrants for shoplifting…