Man on conditional release arrested for threatening to kill family member while holding firearm
Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Cecil Lamar Jackson III, 31, was arrested yesterday for threatening to kill a family member while holding a firearm.
The victim told a responding Alachua County Sheriff’s Deputy that Jackson yelled at her about slamming a door, and while they were arguing, he picked up a firearm, held it at his side, and said he would “harm” and “kill” the victim. The victim said she retreated to her room and then came out and grabbed the firearm from the couch before leaving the home.
Post Miranda, Jackson reportedly denied that any altercation occurred and denied possessing a firearm or threatening the victim.
Jackson has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. He has no criminal convictions but was arrested last September for exposing himself to children, customers, and staff at Jersey Mike’s. He was found to be mentally incompetent to proceed but did not meet the criteria for commitment to a state mental hospital, so he was released in January 2025 with a long list of conditions, including mental health treatment and a prohibition on possessing firearms. Judge Kristine Van Vorst set bail at $75,000 with an option to waive bail if he is accepted into Mental Health Court; she also ordered a mental health evaluation.
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“He has no criminal convictions but was arrested last September for exposing himself to children, customers, and staff at Jersey Mike’s. He was found to be mentally incompetent to proceed but did not meet the criteria for commitment to a state mental hospital, so he was released in January 2025 with a long list of conditions, including mental health treatment and a prohibition on possessing firearms. Judge Kristine Van Vorst set bail at $75,000 with an option to waive bail if he is accepted into Mental Health Court; she also ordered a mental health evaluation.”
So, once again, the ridiculous catch and release programs in our county sent a dangerous, imbalanced person to our community with what could have been deadly results.
You can’t send a mentally ill person out with “a long list of conditions” and expect that to do the trick.
There’s something wrong with the law if it releases people as incompetent to stand trial for their criminal actions but it is okay to release them back into society instead of into a mental facility.
I was in jail with this guy pod 3G. He really, really is off his rocker. So many people play the ‘psych role’ to avoid stiffer sentences, but this is not one of them. He cannot function in society as he is. He couldn’t even function in our pod, he had to be removed after a few days probably they took him to psych pod 2H.
Sad indictment, and the psychosis is real. He probably needs intensive residential treatment for his Psych problems.
Too much crack & meth…
Paid for by whom? His parents? LOL
Psychoses are often caused by past drug abuse. They don’t have to abuse drugs still, it’s triggered by past use and chronic, doesn’t go away.
These people need to be sent away somewhere. Not keep feeding the ACLUSPLCDNC 👺👿👹🤡💩
Which drug turned you into a parrot?
They have a “Mental Health Court” now? Did that replace the “drug court” or is it the same thing?
Anything to coddle and groom new clients for the local ACLUSPLCDNC so they will stay in a college town forever 👿👺💩🤡👹
The NRA made him do it.
Same old group, doing the same old thing. Whahooo surprise!