GRACE Marketplace resident arrested after large emergency response to false report that someone had been shot at GRACE
Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – James Edward Pencheff, 34, was arrested early this morning after allegedly calling 911 to falsely report that someone had been shot at GRACE Marketplace.
At about 12:40 a.m. on March 12, Pencheff allegedly called 911, said someone had been shot at GRACE Marketplace (3055 NE 28th Dr.), and hung up. Eight Gainesville Police Department units, a Gainesville Fire Rescue squad, and an Alachua County Fire Rescue ambulance responded to the homeless shelter with emergency lights and sirens but found upon arrival that there was no emergency. The cost of the resources dispatched in response to the call led to a felony charge for making a false 911 call.
Pencheff reportedly told responding officers that nobody had been shot and that he had intentionally lied on the 911 call so law enforcement would respond faster. The arresting officer reported that Pencheff had also called 911 several times earlier in the evening to report “seemingly bizarre and unfounded incidents.”
Post Miranda, Pencheff reportedly admitted that he had called 911 and that he had a “pot pipe” in his pocket.
A search incident to arrest reportedly produced a marijuana pipe.
Pencheff, whose address is listed as GRACE Marketplace, has been charged with making a false 911 call and possession of drug paraphernalia. He has an unspecified out-of-state criminal history between 2014 and 2022 but no local criminal history. He is also facing a separate misdemeanor charge of making a false 911 call. Judge Susan Miller-Jones set bail at $80,000 and ordered a mental health evaluation.
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.
Grace Marketplace needs to be bulldozed into the ground! It’s like a rotting corpse that attacks maggots. Take away the source and the pests disappear. The homeless are the scourge of our society. The bleeding heart, kumbaya crowd, will have a meltdown if they are run out of town…
A corpse attacking maggots makes quite a mental picture.
They go downtown and other places in town. Is that what you want?
Maybe short memories here, but downtown, including camp sites at Bo Diddley Plaza were the hang out places of choice before Grace. Since Grace – where yes, it is not surprising that people on the edge, some with mental problems and a lot of them veterans – there are far fewer homeless people downtown and citizens can and do enjoy Bo Diddley Plaza. That’s just a fact.
The eyes tell you everything you need to know.
Straight into the asylum
Sure put him in jail. He will love the free phone calls, cuz he is such a fine phone user.
Methed up.
I wonder how he’ll make use of his free phone calls in jail.
He’ll probably call 911 with his phone time.
How does a homeless person pay the monthly bill for a cell phone?
Obomaphone.📞
I thought that hole was shut down
Defund GRACE Marketplace and all our vagrant troubles will go away.
“in order for reason and prudence to prevail in the public forum, it is necessary to stop funding unreason.
All of the insane projects, notions, and ideologies that have proliferated in recent years would go away if their funding was cut.”
Is it cheaper to house these mentally disturbed people in jail, prison or a mental hospital? If it is the hospital, they could be kept there, until proven ready to rejoin society again.
Clockwork orange his ass.
Roger : your farm hospital idea is good.
Hospitals can give them lobotomies , use them as guinea pigs for those C19 mRNA clot shots , sterilize them so they can’t procreate, and keep them on a huge farm in the country so they can’t escape and will be well cared for.
I’m ok with my tax dollars going that way (to the farm) instead of Grace mkt.
GRACE Marketplace is a massive waste of resources that does nothing but lower the quality of life in our city.
Besides the tax dollars that are outright wasted on funding the place (including USAID-style kickbacks that end up in the pockets of the Gainesville City Commission), there is an even greater cost in wasted police, fire, and medical resources.
I thought that con-artist Jon DeCarmine had been run out of town by now, why does this trash heap still exist? Bulldoze the whole thing and put these bums on a bus to California.
oh look, another “local” homeless person. I’m telling you the homeless have a network, they know where they are tolerated and where they are not. Thanks again Gville for making the city so inviting.
Too bad we can’t house these folks in a Tacachale setting, where they’ll have mental health care, but be locked in, walled, gated, and under constant security. I understand that no one wants to fund an endeavor like this, but I’m confident that many of the people who complain would come out of retirement and volunteer to make sure our town and community are cleaner and safer. Right?
Send him to El Salvador prison.