Convicted felon arrested for burglarizing home, stealing over $20k in items, firearm possession, and fleeing from deputies

Staff report

Updated on May 27 with pre-trial detention information.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Mikale Immanuel Fuye, 20, was arrested yesterday after allegedly burglarizing a home; stealing over $20k in belongings, including a firearm and checkbooks; and fleeing from deputies after crashing into an uninvolved vehicle.

On May 18, Alachua County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a home where the victims said that while they had been out during the day, someone had forced entry into the home, ransacked it, and had stolen at least $6,000 in cash, $15,000 in jewelry, a handgun, business checks, credit cards, passports, and social security cards. The victims said that the damage to the interior of the home made it impossible to be sure whether anything else was stolen.

Deputies canvassed the neighborhood and found surveillance video that showed an older white Lincoln sedan arriving at about 8:50 a.m. and then leaving the area at a high rate of speed about an hour later. The sedan had illegal tint on the front windshield and other windows.

A search for white Lincoln sedans in the area only found one; it is registered to Fuye.

The victims also reported that their credit card was used at multiple stores on the same day as the burglary, and deputies reported that the white Lincoln was captured on video surveillance at one of the businesses.

At about 3:26 p.m. on May 20, a deputy conducted a traffic stop on a white sedan with illegal window tint after the sedan left Majestic Oaks without stopping. The driver allegedly drove away after a deputy instructed him to stop while making eye contact; the car accelerated away and made several turns in an effort to evade deputies but eventually crashed into an uninvolved vehicle that was stopped behind an RTS bus near the intersection of SW 61st Street and SW 8th Avenue. This caused Fuye’s vehicle to travel off the roadway and crash into a tree before coming to rest in a ditch next to a children’s playground.

Fuye allegedly tried to flee by jumping out of the driver’s side window of the car, but he was apprehended by deputies and a K-9.

A loaded handgun was reportedly found in the street next to Fuye’s crashed car, along with other items that had been inside the car.

A probable cause search of the vehicle reportedly produced the victim’s business checks and personal checkbook in the trunk, and a firearm was found in the vehicle, but it was not the victim’s stolen firearm. At the time the report was written, deputies were awaiting a search warrant to try to find the other items stolen in the burglary.

Post Miranda, Fuye reportedly declined to answer any questions.

Fuye was medically cleared at a hospital before being transported to the jail.

Fuye has been charged with armed burglary of a dwelling, fleeing with disregard for the safety of others, two counts of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, grand theft over $20,000, grand theft of a firearm, fraudulent use of credit cards over $300, possession of another person’s identification without consent, and theft of a credit card. He has a juvenile conviction from 2022 and three adult felony convictions (two violent); he has served one state prison sentence and was released in December 2025. Judge Adam Lee ordered him held without bail pending a hearing on a motion from the State Attorney’s Office to hold him without bail until trial. On May 27, Judge Denise Ferrero granted the motion and ordered Fuye held without bail until trial.

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