Homeless woman arrested after allegedly ignoring three-day deadline to move belongings off sidewalk
Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Ashley Michelle Warner, 33, was arrested yesterday morning for resisting an officer without violence after allegedly ignoring a three-day deadline to move her belongings from a sidewalk.
A Gainesville Police Department officer reported that Warner’s belongings had been blocking about 20 feet of the west sidewalk in the 100 block of NE 1st Street for several weeks. The Community Resource Paramedicine Program had been working with her for several weeks, and she was reportedly offered resources that included a bed at GRACE Marketplace, but she reportedly refused all services that were offered.
An officer reportedly notified her on March 14 that she needed to remove her belongings within three days, but she allegedly refused.
Warner has two felony convictions (non-violent). Judge Thomas Jaworski noted on her First Appearance order that he was skeptical of the probable cause for the charge of resisting an officer without violence and ordered her released on her own recognizance after being evaluated by mental health staff at the jail for a possible Baker Act admission.
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.
Was she too busy working a job, or attending therapy sessions?
This officer needs to be sued. Nah it is idiots like you that are the reason our rights are being eroded.
Good. Off the streets you go… Let’s not turn Gainesville into another disgusting failed San Francisco.
Unfortunately our past & present commissioners have already gotten the ball rolling on that & dedicated themselves to it.
Too late. We’re already ‘arrived.’
Have you simpletons ever been to SF? Recently? I have numerous times and so have about 1/2 million tourists every year. Here’s a tip – a nicer weekend than Newberry, and safer!
yet, you didn’t stay there for some reason. 😉
Please move there than. You will fit right in
So dumb! The left wing dumps that are San Francisco and Gainesville at no point in time are safer than Newberry! Better to keep your mouth closed than to open it and remove all doubt!
Move it or lose it….simple enough….right? Even a cave man (women?) could do it.
These people aren’t the brightest bulbs on the tree Lou not even compared to a caveman.
After they offered her a shelter bed, these kind cops gave her 71 hours and 57 minutes longer than I would have.
City leaders won’t allow her or others to camp at City Hall, that’s why she had taken up residence where the old Tourism Office used to be.
Maybe that’s why the Tourism Office moved, don’t want the homeless to be the first impressions of Visit Alachua.
Why didn’t Public Works just collect the trash piled on public property? If she refused to move it, it must not have been important to her.
This police officer should be sued.
Just a note about Mug Shots. I note that out of 33 people, 24 of them are black. I also note that blacks make up about 13% of the population yet lead the pack in criminality. We need to be studying why this is so and what can be done about it. But of course we can’t do that as long as politicians are more concerned with votes than the welfare of the people of all colors.