Deputy Arrests Man for Abandoning Dog
Alachua County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested Granville Crockett Batey Jr., 42, early Tuesday morning and charged him with misdemeanor animal cruelty for the abandonment of an animal.
According to the arrest report, Deputy Sam Meyer responded to a motel located on NW 75th St. off W. Newberry Rd., where the complainant was staying. The complainant advised that an unknown man, later identified as Batey, kept knocking on her door with a dog. The complainant said Batey knocked on her door around 12:45 in the morning, and he left the location, leaving the dog behind to freely roam the parking lot.
Meyer reported that Batey returned to the location at 3:15 a.m. and that it was “apparent,” based on his “demeanor and speech, that he was intoxicated.” Meyer attempted to read Batey his Miranda rights, but he reportedly said he didn’t understand and that it was “pointless to arrest him.”
Meyer reported, “The parking lot is approximately 15-20 yards from SW 75th St. (Tower Road) which is a high traffic road and the dog could have roamed into the roadway potentially getting injured or causing a traffic crash.”
Batey, who has six prior felony and 21 prior misdemeanor adjudications, was released on recognizance by Judge Meshon Rawls.
Despite being found on the scene drunk, Batey appears to have no pretrial release conditions requiring him to abstain from drugs and alcohol, based on his first appearance order.
Since 2020, Batey has received convictions for drug possession, battery, disorderly conduct, resisting an officer without violence and trespassing.
According to a 2021 arrest report from his battery conviction, Batey attacked an Oaks Mall security guard who confronted him for harassing employees.
According to a 2024 arrest report from his disorderly conduct conviction, Batey harassed employees working at a business on W. University Ave., with an officer reporting he witnessed him “approaching the victim in an aggressive manner, as well as entering the roadway obstructing vehicular traffic.”
