Homeless woman on probation arrested for biting Publix security guard
Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Zoe Suzan Wiencek, 45, was arrested yesterday for allegedly biting a Publix security guard after attempting to steal a sandwich.
A Gainesville Police Department officer reported that at about 5:34 p.m. on March 7, Wiencek entered Publix (1302 N. Main St.), went to the deli, and selected a pre-made sandwich before walking out of the store without paying for the sandwich.
A store employee saw her take the sandwich and walk past all the registers, and the employee and a security guard approached Wiencek, who gave the sandwich to the employee before walking out with the security guard.
Outside the store, the security guard told Wiencek to stay and wait for law enforcement, and Wiencek allegedly became angry and head-butted the security guard. The security guard took her to the ground, and Wiencek allegedly bit the security guard’s right hand, breaking the skin.
The officer reported that surveillance video corroborated the accounts of the employee and security guard. After Wiencek was placed in handcuffs, she allegedly refused to identify herself multiple times; she was eventually identified by her fingerprints at the jail.
Wiencek, who is described as homeless on court documents, has been charged with battery on a security guard, petit theft, and resisting an officer without violence. She has three felony convictions (non-violent) and 12 misdemeanor convictions (two violent). She was arrested in November after trying to spit on a deputy and reportedly telling him to “Enjoy the AIDS”; after entering a plea of nolo contendere to five misdemeanor charges in that case, she was sentenced to 12 months of probation in January.
Judge Meshon Rawls set bail at $9,000 on the new charges.
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.
Head butted and bit the security guard? Need one of those Silence of the Lambs masks for cannibals like this one.
To the homeless sympathizers: being homeless is not a license to commit crimes against people, businesses, or property. If you believe otherwise, feel free to open your own home for a week or two.
Lovely! Thank our SCUMMY judges, public lawyers and probation parasites for her never being able to leave here forever. And for why Publix won’t build east of Main Street…
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Stop putting these people on probation. It doesn’t work. I rather see them waste tax dollars to confinement her to mental health treatment then letting her loose. She was arrested for assaulting a deputy and now a security guard. I guess these judges and the SAO are waiting for her to kill someone. Kinda like the DA in Virginia….
After hundreds of trips to dozens of stores I’ve never noticed a security guard at any Publix. If your nearest Publix has to hire security guards then maybe there’s a larger issue in the neighborhood.
I am surprised the Publix on Main street has stayed open as long as it has. They have the extra security because they have nothing but problems. The same problems that would exist in any grocery store east of Main street which is why the rest of them threw in the towel years ago and no others have wanted to open. The Walmart is no exception; GPD hauls shoplifters out of there daily.
Main Street Publix is the only Publix I have ever seen has routine security [it used to always be off-duty FHP].
A typical criminal liberal.
Get this woman out of our community
Todd, we invite these people to Grace. Costs everybody to line the pockets of the City Council and County Commission. Big state and federal grants make good neighbors for the rest of us. I guess the money is not going to feed the residents of Grace. Hungry.
This is what happens when there is no place to house the mentally ill long term. When they are violent, innocent people get to pay the price and when they finally commit murder they are put away in jail. Until they, jail is simply a revolving door that is not equipped to address the real problem.