Homeless man charged with stalking after allegedly entering residential property 18 times after being trespassed
Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Calvin Jerod Preston, 38, was arrested last night and charged with stalking, resisting an officer, and trespass after warning after allegedly entering a residential property 18 times after being trespassed from the property.
A Gainesville Police Department (GPD) officer responded to the property last night after Preston allegedly placed two pairs of boots on the victims’ front porch. The victims reported that Preston knocked on the door, but they didn’t answer; they told the officer they were in fear for their lives and had been afraid to leave their residence for several weeks because they did not know whether Preston would be outside waiting for them.
About an hour later, GPD officers reportedly saw Preston sitting on the south side of Lynch Park and asked him where he had been that day. After Preston reportedly admitted he had dropped off two pairs of boots at a house, the officers moved to take him into custody, and Preston allegedly ran. He tripped over a curb and fell, and the officers caught up with him; he allegedly kept his arms under his body, resisting being placed into handcuffs. Officers eventually handcuffed him, but he also allegedly resisted being placed in the patrol vehicle. One officer reportedly suffered cuts and abrasions to his hand during the struggle.
Post Miranda, Preston reportedly would not say he understood his rights but said he would have the officer’s soul.
Preston was trespassed indefinitely from the victims’ property on August 26, 2023, and the victims reportedly provided recordings showing that Preston had been on their property 18 times between November 21 and December 9, sometimes as many as four times a day.
Preston, who is described as homeless on the arrest report, has four felony convictions (none violent) and 10 misdemeanor convictions (none violent), along with a juvenile criminal history between 1993 and 2003 and an out-of-state criminal history between 2006 and 2022. His local convictions go back to 2017. He was convicted of trespass after warning at Winn Dixie in August and served 60 days in jail with credit for 42 days served.
Judge Gloria Walker set bail at $35,000.
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He might want to have that head looked at…
Better find a doctor that doesn’t charge by the square foot.
Let be trespassed from my property and come back I can assure you it’ll only be his last time🔫
In “fear for their lives?” Sounds like a good case for purchasing a firearm and exercising it effectively…if legally able.
Maybe the owners are just so set against 2nd Amendment rights they’d rather be prisoners in their own home or continue living in fear.
You have a very valid point after all this is wokeville and woke country
Damn CP,what in the hell happened to you??? Where ya brothers at??? Look like u need help BAD!!!!
Bro got places to stay he just on that mop bad
18 Times???? Were these incidents all reported? Is this on the victim, for not reporting, or on the criminal “justice” system?
Is he another GRACE success story? Maybe the county’s bloated PR department can do a feature on him.
Put him on a bus and send him to NYC.
Creepy
Another poster boy of our scummy one-party LOCAL judicial mafia.
Whew! Be careful who you hook up with, ladies.
Megamind. Lol!
Sounds like another candidate for residing at the motels they bought on 13th street. I’m sure he has plenty of other repeat offenders that will keep him company all the while destroying our community.
18 times? After the seconded time he should have been in jail.
Future serial killer.😬
he’s not homeless, he just wanna be out there on them drugs. i know whole family.