Tobias, a GPD spokesman, said he posts updates like this on social media sites several times a day. According to a survey recently published by LexisNexis Risk Solutions, social media is becoming a popular tool in law enforcement, especially in departments serving smaller cities.
In a press conference Monday afternoon, the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office identified Truitt, David A. Hurtt, Michael S. Smith, Dylan T. Kestel. Pierce C. Harrell and Dennis T. LaRoche, as suspects arrested by officers from ASO, and Alachua and Gainesville police departments during a five-day Internet sex sting that ended earlier that day.
Gainesville Police officers arrested Eloise Sturdivant, 33, at about 10:50 a.m. on charges of aggravated domestic battery and resisting arrest without violence.
The Gainesville City Commission will vote today to approve a mutual aid agreement with the City of Tampa to send law enforcement officers to the Republican National Convention.
Michael Anthony Henderson Jr., 29, was arrested on a third-degree felony domestic battery charge early Sunday morning, according to a Gainesville Police arrest report.
UF junior Rebecca Harris died Wednesday night from injuries she sustained after being hit by a car while riding her bicycle June 23.
Jo’Von Uriel Lake, 21, was charged with two counts of armed robbery, both first-degree felonies; grand theft auto, a third-degree felony; and resisting arrest without violence, a first-degree misdemeanor.
The Gainesville Police welcomed its newest K-9 unit dog, Roo, on Wednesday afternoon after a $6,500 donation from The Pantry Inc. allowed the department to purchase a new police dog.
A car accident early Wednesday morning left a woman trapped in her car for 10 minutes.
Police have arrested and charged a Gainesville man in connection with a shooting outside a local nightclub earlier this month.
The woman was driving her daughter and granddaughter at about 10:30 p.m. Saturday night when he ran into her Toyota Camry.
A UF student died Monday morning of unknown causes.
A UF student passed away Monday morning from unknown causes.
When a Gainesville contracting crew arrived to work on a house Thursday morning, they did not expect to find two men asleep inside.
The man shot a woman and a man with a pistol in Tent City at 10:51 p.m. on Sunday.
A man set fire to a stack of newspapers early Thursday morning in the back of the delivery van for the Independent Florida Alligator.
Florida’s state attorney announced Monday the state would drop charges against one of the 10 members of Alpha Phi Alpha who were charged with hazing in January.
William and his mother, Emogene, argued in the living room around 10 p.m. He asked for money to buy crack cocaine and beer, police say. Emogene said no. So, William beat her. Then, he stabbed her in the face with an ice pick, four times.
Police responded to a 911 call by a man who went to his friend’s apartment and found him.
Soon after 10 p.m. Saturday, about five minutes after the crash, officers and paramedics responded to the scene at the entrance of Fairmont Oaks apartments, 316 SW 62nd Blvd.
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