Man Arrested For Aggravated Stalking After Sending Over 200 Threatening Texts
Update | February 26, 2026: The outcome of the case was added and clarification was added that Michael White's prior 2023 battery plea deal was in consolidation with another case and a sentence of time served. Clarification was added that the report doesn't state the victim verified if White knocked on her door on August 9, 2024, but she did verify the physical stalking incidents that occurred the days after.
Michael Darnell White, 52, was arrested on August 13, 2024, on one count of aggravated stalking, one count of drug trafficking and counts of possessing and intending to sell drugs.
Between August 7 - August 12, White sent the victim over 30 repetitive threatening text messages. After she blocked him, he proceeded to text her 200 repetitive threatening text messages with a new phone number.
The arrest report cites multiple texts where White threatened to go to the victim’s place of work and kill her boyfriend.
On August 9, the victim returned home from work and a knock on her door but whoever it was left before she could make contact. Roughly an hour later, White texted the victim, "I'm trying to come see you, make time for me today cause I want to see you..." "can I please come chill with you tonight..." "hey talk to me..." "about to come to your job, you know how I feel and how I'm gonna react."
The next day White got into the victim’s house, with her roommates reportedly leaving the door unlocked. He was standing in the stairwell and fled after the victim yelled at him to leave.
Two days later, the victim saw White staring at her through the window of her workplace.
White was reportedly friends with the victim for 30 years before he stalked her.
Gainesville Police Department (GPD) officer Nicholas Domico was not able to locate White and submitted a sworn complaint for aggravated stalking.
On Tuesday, Corporal Casey Walsh located White riding his bike on NE Waldo Road. After he stopped, Walsh arrested him for aggravated stalking.
A search by Walsh found 15.4 grams of ecstasy, 4 grams of crack, and 1.6 grams of cocaine.
Walsh was in her marked K-9 patrol vehicle at the time. She is the officer who allowed her K-9 to attack a homeless woman sleeping in bushes believing she was a domestic battery suspect last March.
White doesn’t have a registered address and is currently homeless.
White is eligible for a bond of $210,000 for his drug charges and currently has no bond eligibility for his stalking charge.
White has eight violent felony adjunctions, with the most recent being a 2023 aggravated battery case where he beat his girlfriend, who was pregnant with his child, using a pitchfork.
In November 2023, in a no contest plea deal, White was convicted of battery, along with another prior case for cocaine possession dating back to 2021, and he was sentenced to credit with time served.
In August 2024, in another no contest plea deal, White was sentenced to 18 months in prison following with a conviction of aggravated stalking and possession of a controlled substance.
