Homeless man with 33 convictions arrested for indecent exposure
Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Joshuia Bernard Jenkins, 36, was arrested yesterday after a police officer reported that he was masturbating on a public sidewalk.
At about 4:31 p.m. on April 11, a Gainesville Police Department officer was turning north onto NE 3rd Street from East University Avenue when he saw Jenkins standing near the road with his pants pulled down and a jacket covering the front side of his waist.
The officer reported that he stopped his patrol vehicle and spoke to Jenkins, who was making hand gestures behind the jacket as if he were masturbating.
The officer noted that cars were passing in both directions, and “numerous” people were walking on the sidewalk while Jenkins was masturbating.
Post Miranda, Jenkins reportedly did not want to speak to officers, and the officer reported that he did not seem to be in a “right mental state.”
Jenkins, who is described as homeless in court documents, has been charged with indecent exposure of sexual organs, first offense, although he has a previous conviction on the same charge. He has 10 felony convictions (two violent) and 23 misdemeanor convictions (five violent), and he was convicted of indecent exposure in July 2025 after a May arrest at Bridge House. He was sentenced to probation in that case, but he never reported to his probation officer, so his probation was revoked, and he was sentenced to 180 days in jail. Judge David Kreider set bail at $10,000.
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Commissioner Bryan Eastman should make a TikTok video about this while riding his bike downtown
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Who’s going click thumbs down on this. Has to be Eastman you know all the GSSR commie city and county officials all got fake accounts on here every time you see a liberal commit you know its one of them
Gainesville, where even the homeless neighbors wave at you… in their own way.
The city ought to buy one of those big houses around the duck pond for the homeless and then watch what the virtue signaling duck pond liberals do.
I am not saying lock him up forever in a mental institution, all I am saying is for now he needs to go for evaluation as every man knows this behavior / act is not appropriate in a public setting. For him to have already been arrested and convicted of this same offense and multiple others as well, it appears he doesn’t have the mentality to know right from wrong.
But he’s probably a (past) drug abuser, his own choice, which caused his “mental illness” you feel sorry for. Do you feel sorry for drunk drivers, too?
I never said I felt sorry for him at all and I feel everyone who commits a crime needs to own up to it and accept their punishment. I was just saying he needs to be evaluated for mental illness first and then it can go either way, he goes to prison or a mental institution for a long time.
He def needs mental health. But it’ll never happen in FL thanks to DeSatan gutting the system.
Mental health treatment and institutions were gutted long before you and Gov. DeSantis were even born. Most of those places were hellholes. Watch “One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest” sometime.
There’s a very large problem in the FL Court System where people with low-level offenses (Misdemeanors) CANNOT be held in mental institutions with those charges – there is no Florida Statute that allows that. The best that can happen is that the defendant is sentenced to jail for the crime, but sadly, our judges choose not to do that. They see jail time as a last resort.
Instead, they rely on probation officers to babysit these individuals. But as we saw above, this guy was sentenced to probation, he didn’t go, he was violated, he was arrested again and sat in jail for 6 months. It’s better, all the way around, to cut out the middle man (probation), and just put this guy in jail for six months; at least he’s off the street, taken care of, and can get services while he’s in there.
It’s a never-ending cycle for these misdemeanor cases, and that’s the majority of what we see here in town. The criminal justice system in this county cares more about keeping people out of jail, and monitoring them in the community (meaning probation, ankle monitors, etc), than sending people to jail for the appropriate length of time for the crimes they did commit.
To reduce repeat offenders, let’s just arrest their judges and public attorneys.
Sounds like this guy has all the qualifications to be a Gainesville City Commissioner.
He’s going end getting KFO one of these times for good. He need to be institutionalized.
Ten felony convictions, 23 misdemeanors. And yet he is still walking about the streets of town.
See what a liberal judiciary does for a community.