Alachua woman arrested for carrying concealed firearm as a convicted felon
Staff report
ALACHUA, Fla. – Cemille Lakedra Denise Jackson, 29, of Alachua, was arrested early this morning and charged with possession of a concealed firearm by a convicted felon after she allegedly pulled a gun from her purse during an altercation.
At about 2 a.m., a Gainesville Police Department officer responded to Boardwalk Apartments at 2701 SW 13th Street, where a witness reportedly said that she had physically fought another person earlier in the evening and that Jackson had arrived later with three other people to pick up some keys that had been dropped during the fight. The witness said she was worried that Jackson and the three people in her car would jump her, so she armed herself with a knife but never threatened anybody with it or moved toward anyone with the knife.
Two witnesses told the officer that Jackson reached into her shoulder bag and pulled out a handgun but did not point it at anybody or threaten anybody.
The officer reported that the three people in Jackson’s car said nobody had a gun, and Jackson said there was no gun in her car. A search of the car with Jackson’s consent reportedly produced the shoulder bag and a handgun, which was hidden under a pile of clothing.
Post Miranda, Jackson reportedly said that she had reached into her shoulder bag to imply that she had a gun after the witness grabbed the knife. However, she denied having a gun in her bag or on her person.
Jackson has a juvenile criminal history and served an 18-month prison sentence for battery on detention staff in 2013-14 in Martin County. She also has two local misdemeanor convictions for participating in a fight on school grounds in 2020. Judge Susan Miller-Jones set bail at $50,000.
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Get used to it. It’ll be the new norm, July 2023 onward.
“B-but the new l-law says no f-felons!!1!”
Yeah I know that and so do they, but they’ll play dumb and do it anyways. ‘But eyez thought duh law sed…”
More people on the streets with guns now. The Friday night GVille street wilding is about to look like scenes from 2003’s “City of God.”
Why are you calling it the new norm look back at arrest records felons never obey the law. Hopefully their more guns on the streets now with constitutional carry and they will be in the hands of law abiding citizens who understand Fl gun laws and practice monthly with their firearms maybe over time over crowded jails and courts will be a thing of the past
Convicted felons and young little street thugs are shooting someone, or at someone every week and now ya’ll mad because the law abiding citizens have guns… Look at the stats, the states with the strictest gun laws have the most gun violence.
She was arrested because she was a felon with a firearm, not because she had a firearm.
Unfortunately, that has been the norm. Hopefully people who are legally able will being a more equitable chance to the table by arming themselves. We’ve seen here and many other places criminals don’t care about following the rules.
Another shining example of a firearm causing an exemplary citizen to use it (albeit not yet found guilty of said threatening use of a firearm by a convicted felon) in a manner threatening the life of others!
I wish there was a way to keep these damn firearms from causing all these good people to do bad things! Horsecra#!
Get rid of the (Soros funded) woke lawyers and judges!
That would be a great start! Put the criminals in jail and keep them there for their full term!
Aren’t there laws preventing this from happening?
Maybe if more people slept during the night and worked during the day… And learned respect for others and our laws.
You make to much sense
Ratchet fight to an armed disturbance. Sounds like someone was upset they lost the fight. And not a one able to legally possess a gun. Jackson is that stupid to say there is no gun and then give officers consent to search.