On April 1, Thomas Andrew Ray, 37, was placed into the custody of the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) to begin serving an 18-month prison sentence.
Ray’s path to prison began nearly two years ago when Gainesville Police Department (GPD) officers arrested and charged him with two misdemeanor counts of criminal mischief.
Ray’s Arrests
According to the arrest report, Ray damaged the vehicles and trailer resided in by Anna Perez and convicted sex offender Bhaktivinode Franklin. In 2012, Franklin was convicted of sexually abusing a child.
Franklin has been arrested for violating probation multiple times, with one incident in 2022 involving another criminal case. Franklin was convicted of misdemeanor domestic battery that year for shoving dirt in a woman’s mouth. He told police he did it so she would see what meth tastes like.
Perez and Ray were previously in a relationship and have a child together, but by the time of the incident, they had split up, and she had begun a relationship with Franklin…