Domestic violence report for June 13, 2026

Staff report

ALACHUA COUNTY, Fla. – With Gainesville Police Department making domestic violence a priority, Alachua Chronicle will provide basic descriptions of domestic violence incidents as resources permit. The point is to familiarize our readers with the scope and scale of domestic violence in Alachua County, not to highlight the offenders. Names and booking photos of all of the offenders can be found in the daily Jail Booking Log.

Domestic violence arrests on June 13, 2026

• The victim told an ASO deputy that he had offered medical marijuana to his brother, who became confrontational and challenged the victim to hit him before pushing the victim to the ground. The victim said he stood back up and tried to defend himself, but his brother punched him in the face. The victim’s brother said the victim hit him first. The victim had a laceration on his face and minor cuts on his scalp; the victim’s brother had bloody knuckles. The deputy arrested the victim’s brother because he had offensive wounds on his knuckles and the victim’s injuries matched his account of the incident; he was charged with domestic battery causing bodily harm.
• The victim told a GPD officer that on June 9, she and her boyfriend were arguing when he choked her, took her phone, and left. She said she shut the phone down from another device, and he came back and accused her of calling the police. She said that when she told him she had not called the police, he hit her in the face, splitting her lip, and then threw her phone to the ground, breaking it. The man was arrested on June 13 and charged with domestic battery by strangulation, domestic battery with a prior battery conviction, petit theft, and property damage; he is also facing sworn complaints for hitting a different girlfriend in March and April. 
• The victim told an ASO deputy that her on-and-off boyfriend was invited to her residence, but after they argued, she told him to sleep on the couch, and he pulled on the French doors into her bedroom until the door broke off the frame. They eventually went to sleep separately, but the victim said she woke up later and found her boyfriend in bed with her. She said she told him to leave, and he grabbed her phone, but she grabbed it back and tried to run outside to call for help. Her boyfriend threw her phone on the ground, and she picked it up and ran back inside, but her boyfriend allegedly forced his way into her back door and grabbed her around the neck while she tried to call 911. She tried to escape, but he forcefully held her in the residence against her will; she finally escaped and retreated into her bedroom, and her boyfriend allegedly started destroying items in her living room before entering her bedroom, picking her up, and throwing her into a mirror. He then allegedly took her phone, her computer, and other items and went to his car. She retrieved her belongings from him, and he followed her back inside until he heard sirens; he left after allegedly telling her he would kill her family and shoot her house up if she called the police.