Construction worker arrested for stealing pills and jewelry from client
Staff report
ALACHUA, Fla. – Richard Alex Nielsen, Jr., 24, was arrested yesterday and charged with nine felonies after allegedly stealing pills and jewelry from a residence where he was doing construction work.
The victim told a responding Alachua County Sheriff’s Deputy that Nielsen was one of a group of workers from a construction company he hired to do work on his home in Alachua. He said Nielsen asked to use the bathroom, so he let him in; Nielsen reportedly came back a second time, saying he’d forgotten his bandanna, and he let him in again. A few minutes later, the victim noticed that his wallet was missing from a drawer, along with two pill bottles (Hydrocodone and acetaminophen) and two gold rings. The victim told the deputy that Nielsen would have had access to the drawer while he was inside the home, and the victim said he saw Nielsen walk over to the west side of the property.
Deputies searched that area of the property and reportedly found a wallet, two gold rings, and two empty prescription bottles on the ground.
Nielsen was detained and placed into a patrol car. A few minutes later, deputies reportedly found a plastic bag on the floor of the patrol vehicle; the bag reportedly contained seven smaller baggies with different kinds of pills. The pills included Clonazepam, Alprazolam, OxyContin, Lorazepam, Lortab, and Valium. The contents of the victim’s pill bottles were also reportedly found in the bag.
Post Miranda, Nielsen reportedly admitted taking the items from the victim’s house and admitted that the pills found in the patrol car were his.
Nielsen has been charged with grand theft of a controlled substance, grand theft, and seven counts of possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell. Nielsen has an unspecified criminal history in Georgia and is currently on probation in Georgia for aggravated assault and possession of a weapon by a convicted felon. Judge Thomas Jaworski set bail at $21,000.
Articles about arrests are based on reports from law enforcement agencies. The charges listed are taken from the arrest report and/or court records and are only accusations. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
Too low Tommy strikes again!
Much too low Tommy Judge bail.
Can my mom get a posh funeral?
The courts and addiction enablers will keep him trapped in the Gainesville spider web for years yet, via a disGRACE address 🤡👹🍦🍦
So…
I wish I could have been a fly on the wall for the first appearance hearing.
The part whenever the judge asks, Where are you employed?
Agreed. Name of his employer should be disclosed.
I am elderly and need a bit of remoldeling work too.
Who has the balls to identify your company?
GAMBLES CONSTRUCTION CO. public record in arrest docunent
they are off the bid list.
Gamble Constructions is the name of the company.
Anytime you have strangers in home to do work they need to watched carefully. Why Tommy Boy again gave light bail for the amount of charges and possible probation violation is baffling to the sane mind.
I need to write an article about this when I have time, but this is a result of the Daniel Dominguez case: https://alachuachronicle.com/gainesville-man-convicted-by-jury-of-threatening-to-shoot-a-school-then-released-on-5k-bond-by-judge/
From the article:
Dominguez appealed the bond amount to the First District Court of Appeals (1st DCA), which ruled on January 31 that he was being illegally detained and would need to be released on February 5 “unless the trial court enters an order setting reasonable conditions of pretrial release or conducts further proceedings and enters an order under section 907.041(5)(c) of the Florida Statutes.”
That statute holds that there is a “presumption in favor of release on nonmonetary conditions for any person who is granted pretrial release unless such person is charged with a dangerous crime.” In that case, the person “shall be released on monetary conditions” if the monetary conditions are necessary to protect the community or assure the presence of the person at hearings or at trial. Written threats to kill are on the list of dangerous crimes in the statute.
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So now the judges are setting bail amounts that defendants have the resources to pay (10%) unless the SAO makes a motion for pre-trial detention and a judge agrees to hold the defendant.
Victim had a nice holy trinity+ in his cabinet! Someone has a problem and it isn’t the perpetrator.
Maybe get the facts before making assumptions. This POS went to the victims property with all those pills already on him. He stole a wallet, rings and 45 pills from the victim of a prescription that was filled a week ago.
Typical
😂😂😂😂😂
Dude, go find Coar in the jail, that dude that stole the copper gutters from that church and get some pointers. 😝
@eddie and everyone else going after the construction company. This is a systemic problem with a lot of construction companies. It’s not unique to this one. Sounds like there needs to be more regulation and higher standards for who can be hired and who can’t.