Gainesville Police Department officers arrested Nathanael Benjamin Johnson, 28, Monday and charged him with domestic battery by strangulation, a felony carrying a maximum prison sentence of five years.
According to the arrest report,
Sunday morning, officers with the Alachua region of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission arrested Charles Earl Baker, 64, and James Richard Fender, 60, on charges of littering exceeding 500 pounds, a felony
15-year-old Ke’Mani Hill was scheduled to take her murder case to jury selection yesterday, but instead she pleaded no contest to manslaughter with a firearm, a lesser included offense. Taking a plea
On January 23, 2026, Lonnie Joe Ward, 49, entered a no contest plea agreement for a misdemeanor battery charge and was sentenced to one year of probation.
Alachua County Sheriff’s Office deputies
Between August 2025 and April 2026, Michael Scott Brannon, 40, was sentenced in a number of misdemeanor domestic abuse cases spanning Alachua and Duval Counties.
Case 1:
On March 1, 2025, Alachua County
