Gainesville man charged with threatening to shoot family member with BB gun

Staff report

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Moises Fernando Rodriguez, 32, was arrested yesterday after allegedly threatening to shoot a family member with a BB gun.

At about 11:56 a.m. on April 4, an Alachua County Sheriff’s Deputy responded to Rodriguez’s home, where family members said Rodriguez had just been released from a mental health facility and was screaming at the victim while holding a BB gun. They said Rodriguez was claiming that the victim had hacked his tablet and phone and was doing “weird things” on it. Another family member tried to calm him down, and Rodriguez allegedly pointed the BB gun at the victim and said, “I will shoot you.”

Rodriguez has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. He has three felony convictions (three violent) and two misdemeanor convictions (one violent). He was arrested in 2017 for threatening to “shoot up” the Oaks Mall food court with a real-looking BB gun and was sentenced to 364 days in jail with credit for 364 days served on charges of improperly displaying a weapon and illegally carrying a concealed weapon; adjudication of guilt was withheld on the charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and he was sentenced to five years of probation on that charge. After his third violation of probation, Judge Denise Ferrero ordered him to enter inpatient mental health treatment, and after his sixth violation of probation, Judge Ferrero revoked his probation, adjudicated him guilty of the charge, and sentenced him to 364 days in jail with credit for 364 days served.

Judge Mitchell Bishop set bail at $10,000 on the new charge.

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