An off-duty security guard at the UF Housing Office was arrested early Tuesday for preventing a Gainesville police officer from helping a drunken woman outside 101 Downtown, according to a police report.
Police arrested Lucas D. Santos, 24, for resisting arrest without violence.
Santos said he recognized a tall, college-aged blonde at the bar. The two knew each other, he said, but they weren't friends.
They met once "a long time ago" standing in line at Pollo Tropical in the Reitz Union.
Santos said the two hit it off at the bar, but the woman was too drunk to walk as they were leaving around 2 a.m.
He said he guided her outside, and they sat together on a curb on Southeast Second Street.
According to the police report, the bar's security staff told officer James Franklin that the woman was drunk and could not speak or walk.
Franklin asked the girl who she was while paramedics made sure she was OK.
Santos then walked in front of the officer and tried to talk to the girl.
Franklin told Santos he needed to leave so they could help her, but according to the report, Santos kept interrupting.
After telling Santos to go away about five times, Franklin arrested him and put him in the back of a patrol car.
Franklin then returned to the woman, who was not identified in the report.
Santos is a senior nuclear engineering major and said he's been a security guard at the UF Housing Office for about a year.
