Gainesville man arrested for multiple burglaries after citizen finds 18 handguns buried at condominium complex

Staff report

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Kevin Marcus Boyd, 40, has been arrested for multiple car burglaries following the discovery of 18 guns buried near the community pool at a condominium complex.

According to Boyd’s arrest report, Gainesville Police Department had been investigating him since March for a series of vehicle burglaries during the early morning hours of March 5.

The report lists five incidents in neighborhoods off of NW 24th Boulevard in which video surveillance showed a black male wearing a ski mask and gloves arriving on a bicycle and pulling door handles or entering vehicles between 1:25 a.m. and 2:30 a.m. on March 5. At one home, the suspect rummaged through a backpack found in a vehicle; at a second home, the suspect stole an unknown amount of change from the center console of a vehicle; and at a third home, the suspect stole a pistol from a vehicle. At two other homes, the suspect walked away because the vehicles were locked.

A GPD detective found surveillance video at a gas station at the intersection of NW 53rd Avenue and NW 43rd Street that showed Boyd arriving at the gas station at about 3 a.m. on March 5 and leaving a bicycle in the bushes before walking up to the convenience store; his clothing matched the clothing of the suspect in the vehicle burglaries except that he was missing a jacket, the mask, and the gloves.

The detective interviewed a witness who has known Boyd “for an extended period of time,” and the witness positively identified the man at the gas station as Boyd. The detective also noted that video surveillance showed the same suspect along a path from the location of the burglaries to the gas station at various points between 2:30 a.m. and 3 a.m.

On October 13, a citizen contacted a GPD officer to report finding pistols buried next to the community pool clubhouse at Cumberland Circle (1900 NW 16th Terrace). Officers reportedly found 18 pistols in food storage containers “in a shallow grave,” about 15 feet from the front gate. A detective determined that 13 of the 18 guns had been reported stolen from vehicles, predominantly in the northwest area of Gainesville, throughout 2025. One of the firearms buried there was the one stolen on March 5.

Video surveillance in the area of the Cumberland Circle pool clubhouse reportedly showed Boyd climbing the fence to enter the pool area on September 18 and September 23; he can be seen approaching the area where the guns were buried on September 24, and he is also seen walking in that area on October 13.

The detective sent a search warrant to Boyd’s cell phone provider and confirmed that Boyd was in the area of the vehicle burglaries on March 5 and also at Cumberland Circle at the times he is shown on surveillance video.

Boyd has been charged with four counts of unarmed burglary of a vehicle, armed burglary of a vehicle, grand theft of a firearm, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. He has six felony convictions (non-violent) and 12 misdemeanor convictions (non-violent); he has served one state prison sentence and was released in August 2023. Judge Meshon Rawls set bail at $300,000.

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