Man on pre-trial release arrested for exposing himself and urinating on 192 bottles of alcohol at Total Wine & More

Updated on 7/17/24: The charges related to the alleged sexual assault were later dropped; Flint entered a plea of nolo contendere to the charges associated with the Total Wine & More incident and was adjudicated guilty on all four counts and sentenced to 81 days in jail with credit for 81 days served.

Staff report

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Louis Richard Flint, 21, was arrested yesterday and charged with exposing himself and urinating on 192 bottles of alcohol at Total Wine & More and later exposing himself at Shands. He was on pre-trial release following a February 1 arrest for rape and battery.

Flint was arrested on February 1 after a woman reported that he had forced her to have oral sex at a party; he was charged with sexual assault, six counts of battery, and possession of a fraudulent ID after the Colorado driver’s license he left behind at the party showed his photo but someone else’s information. He was arrested at the Beta Theta Pi house, where the arresting officer reported that he “appeared to be in an altered mental state.”

Flint posted $132,000 bail and was fitted with a GPS monitor, but he reportedly failed to maintain contact with Court Services as ordered; the Pre-Trial Services program filed an affidavit on February 19, stating that Flint and his father were contacted numerous times throughout the week of February 12 and that both had their phones turned off, with the calls going to voicemail. The report stated that in a call on February 11, Flint had agreed to report to the office the next day to bring his GPS device in for inspection after it went out of service, but the office had no contact with him after February 11. The office requested a warrant for Flint’s arrest.

At 7:30 p.m. on February 22, a Gainesville Police Department officer responded to Total Wine & More at 3965 Plaza Blvd, where the manager of the store said Flint had exposed himself and had asked the manager and customers if they wanted to “suck it.” The manager said Flint intentionally urinated on about 192 bottles of alcohol, forcing the business to throw out the merchandise, for a loss of about $1,400.

Flint allegedly took two bottles of alcohol on his way out of the store, valued at about $53.

The arresting officer reported that he was unable to interview Flint due to his level of intoxication, and Flint was transported to UF Health Shands by ambulance.

The next morning at about 8:26 a.m., Shands security received several calls from the north tower about Flint exposing himself, and one security guard said she asked Flint to cover himself, but he urinated on the property and “stroked” himself.

The responding Gainesville Police Department officer said that when he arrived, Flint was trying to get on an RTS bus, and Flint was arrested with the help of other responding officers.

Flint is not currently booked on the violation of pre-trial release conditions; Judge William Davis set bail at $65,000 on the new charges.

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