A Leesburg man has been arrested in the wake of an incident near a dumpster at a Leesburg gun shop.
The owner of a residence on Seminole Trail in Leesburg called law enforcement regarding 36-year-old Franklin Bobby Hogans being on the premises around 9:40 p.m. Sunday, March 8, according to an arrest report from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office.
Upon arrival, a deputy was directed to the back porch of the residence, where he found Hogans. A former lover, who had a no-contact order against Hogans, was on the porch as Hogans was taken into custody. Hogans was charged for this incident as well as loitering at a gun shop on March 3, the report said.
Probable cause for Hogans’s arrest was established that day when he and 45-year-old Jessica Lynn Kadelsik were caught on security cameras near the dumpsters behind The Gun Shop Inc. & Gun Range, located at 1310 SR 44, Leesburg. He used an electric scooter’s light as a flashlight while she dug through the dumpster. Neither of them tampered with door handles or looked through the windows of the business.
Once Kadelsik was arrested, she told a deputy that Hogans fled because he had a warrant. She also indicated he typically stayed at a place she referred to as “the dirty floor,” an abandoned building off the bike trail near the Lake and Sumter County line. Law enforcement searched the area, but they did not find him until the incident on Sunday, the report said…