Juveniles charged as adults for stealing e-bike at gunpoint
Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Bre’shaun Jacedrick Harrison, 17, and Elijah J. Thomas, 17, have been charged as adults with armed robbery after allegedly stealing an e-bike at gunpoint from a 15-year-old.
At about 6:35 p.m. on March 3, Alachua County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to the 800 block of SW 64th Terrace (near the SWAG Family Resource Center), where the 15-year-old victim and 16-year-old witness said three juvenile black males approached them and asked if the victim wanted to sell his e-bike. The victim said that when he refused, one of the males pulled a handgun from his waistband and pushed it into his chest while forcibly taking the e-bike. The three males fled in the direction of Hidden Oaks Mobile Home Park.
Deputies collected video from Hidden Oaks Mobile Home Park and reportedly found three suspects passing the cameras at the intersection of SW 8th Avenue and Squire Drive about two minutes before the call from the victim. A deputy reported that one of the males, wearing all black, was riding the e-bike, and about a minute later, two black males walked in the same direction: one was wearing a green top and had shoulder-length dreadlocks, and the other had a thin build and was wearing a black head covering, gray hoodie, and black pants. The male riding the bike was later identified as Harrison, and the one wearing a green top was later identified as Thomas. According to court documents, both of them are students at Buchholz High School.
Thomas was arrested on March 6. Post Miranda, he reportedly admitted his involvement in the incident. Thomas has a juvenile conviction from this year.
Harrison was arrested on March 10. Post Miranda, he reportedly refused to answer any questions. Harrison has juvenile convictions spanning 2019 to 2025.
Both defendants were formally charged as adults with armed robbery on March 28, and Judge William Davis ordered them transferred to the Alachua County Jail and held without bail. At their First Appearance hearings this morning, Judge Meshon Rawls ordered them held without bail pending a hearing on a motion from the State Attorney’s office to hold them without bail until trial.
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.
Very scary to know that these thugs are going to same schools with some of our kids!
No, they are probably going to school to begin with. Then they lack any discipline at home.
My son is the victim. I just purchased that e-bike last month but. Most importantly. I thank God the trigger wasn’t pulled.
The school board is SO salty about how many students have left our public schools, including Bucholz, for Frazier school. But look at who those students have been learning alongside of! Some of those are students with college or even Ivy League potential, and these were their classmates that they have to trust everyday to not bring a weapon to school and go after them. Students who go to school wanting to learn and advance their education truly don’t deserve that. The school board enables this by refusing to hold students accountable for their behavior, avoiding referrals/suspensions, and not supporting teachers. Unfortunately for these two kids, our public school system has failed them and more kids will continue to run far away from this public school mess until real change occurs.
You can’t fix stupid
Another gun felony in Section 8 nervana.
We should save the state a lot of future funds by putting these 2 dogs down. They will never amount to anything other than violent offenders who will only breed more of the same.
Career criminal over six years and not even an adult yet. Yet more failures from the incompetent ACSB. Why are they still in a regular public school?
How perfect, right near the SWAG gov’t center. This is so disappointing, and what schools do these youth attend, too? Don’t they teach about stealing and food deserts, and malls closing?
Please send PhD candidates to study them so we can make sure it doesn’t happen again (on that block).
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Hold their parent(s) accountable.
I read these things for the names, and this article didn’t disappoint: Bre’shaun Jacedrick???
Just looking at them tells me what all i need to know