Man on pre-trial release arrested for smashing neighbor’s windows, hitting neighbor with wrench

Staff report

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Brian Keith Gunter, 42, was arrested yesterday after allegedly entering the victim’s property uninvited, smashing seven windows of the victim’s camper, throwing a wrench through a window that left an imprint on the victim’s chest, and stealing a generator.

At about 5:15 a.m. on November 21, an Alachua County Sheriff’s Deputy responded to a call about an armed disturbance in the Windsor area; the victim said Gunter, who had lived across the street for about 15 years, had come to his house looking for money and had awakened him by breaking all seven of the windows on his camper van and denting the front of the camper. The victim estimated that the cost of replacing the windows is around $5,000.

The victim said that he got up after the windows were broken and had started getting dressed when Gunter threw a pipe wrench through his bedroom window, hitting him on the chest. The deputy noted that the imprint of a wrench could be seen on the victim’s chest.

The victim said Gunter also stole a generator worth about $2,100.

Gunter has been charged with theft of a generator over $1,000, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, and grand theft. He has no criminal convictions, but he was arrested on November 8 for domestic aggravated assault after allegedly threatening his girlfriend with a shotgun. The State Attorney’s office made a motion to hold him without bail until trial, but Judge David Kreider denied the motion and set bail at $5,000 with conditions of no contact with the victim and no weapons or firearms. Judge Kristine Van Vorst ordered him held without bail on the new charges pending a hearing on a new motion from the State Attorney’s office to hold him without bail until trial in both cases.

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