Tag Archives: burglary

ASO search for remains of UF student who disappeared 25 years ago comes up empty.

A 21-year-old Ocala man has been arrested in connection with the arson investigation in fall 2013 of law enforcement official's personal and service vehicles.

Alachua County Sheriff's Office spokesman Art Forgey shared ways to practice safe shopping this holiday season.

Police have accused the 31-year-old of killing his pregnant former girlfriend, Caitlin A. Albritton, 22, around 4:30 p.m. Saturday. Neighbors told officials they heard the pair arguing in their home at the Village Green Apartments before a single gun shot was fired.

The Gainesville Police Department is investigating a string of recent crimes that fit a national trend called Felony Lane Gang, where burglars break into cars and steal visible purses in an attempt to gain access to owners' bank accounts.

An assistant attorney for the city of Gainesville was arrested on charges of burglary of an occupied residence, resisting officers and obstruction without violence, and a third charge of loitering, according to police reports.

Larry Whitehead, wanted for murder in Gainesville, was arrested in South Carolina on Sunday.

Andre Locus, 19, may be connected to an April 15th residential burglary and sexual battery case. He was arrested Tuesday for a 2011 sexual battery case.

A video round-up of local, state and national stories for readers in North Central Florida: Boston bombing suspect moved, Gainesville prison conversion, footage of sexual battery and burglary suspect, Mississippi River flooding, the Great Balloon Fest.

GPD released a composite sketch Thursday of a suspect still at large in a case of battery and armed burglary.