Jail inmate charged with making 16 phone calls to domestic battery victim
Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Michael Anthony Williams, 52, an inmate at the Alachua County Jail, has been charged with making 16 illegal phone calls to the victim in his domestic battery case.
Williams was originally arrested on November 17, 2025, for allegedly cutting his victim’s neck with a knife, and he is being held without bail until trial on a charge of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.
On November 18, 2025, Williams appeared before Judge Jonathan Ramsey and was ordered to have no contact with the victim, but an Alachua County Sheriff’s Office investigation alleges that between November 18, 2025, and January 21, 2026, Williams called the victim 16 times.
The first call to the victim was reportedly made via a third-party call on January 7, using a different inmate’s Personal Identification Number (PIN). After Williams obtained a phone number for the victim, he allegedly called the victim directly on January 8 using a second inmate’s PIN and eventually made a total of 16 calls to the victim using two different inmates’ PINs. Inmates in the Alachua County Jail are permitted to make unlimited free phone calls.
Williams has been charged with 16 counts of violating his pre-trial release conditions. (Defendants are typically prohibited from contacting their victims until the case is resolved, whether they are in jail or out on bail; regardless of where the inmate is located, these prohibitions are referred to as “pre-trial release conditions.”)
Judge Jonathan Ramsey added $160,000 to Williams’ bail and ordered the jail to suspend all video/telephone calls except for attorney calls.
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Williams has been charged with 16 counts of violating his pre-trial release conditions
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Hey Leigh Scott! Did you read this story?
Selective blindness.
The clinical term is perceptual blindness.
It’s like racism—it doesn’t discriminate.
“Unlimited Free Phone calls” Really? Nothing is free except to the liberals. They figure they can take it from the ‘working class’.
Leigh Scott went on about lifelines with the phone system. All Alachua County Commission has done is enable this jackass to terrorize a victim sixteen time violating his pre trial conditions. Thank Prizzia and Little Kenny. Your leadership sure does shine like a polished turd.
My tax money at work. Thank you “Real Leadership” Ken Cornell.
He should send a thank you card to the Alaucha county commission thanking them using taxpayers money to give people who commit crimes a free phone.It its very interesting that taxpayers don’t get a free phone. They have to pay for theirs and pay for these convicts something just not right here.
I’ve noticed theses harassing phone call being put into the spotlight every since the county commissioners started in about the sheriff’s department posting mugshots online about a month ago. You don’t like transparency, here is some more in your face! Ha!!
Surprise, surprise……..
Victims should show up at Commissioners meeting. And let them know how scared they are and how their is on danger. Thanks to the Alachua County Commissioners