Man on probation arrested for entering apartment, walking around while occupants were sleeping

Staff report

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Ha’mod Hikeem McNutt, 29, was arrested early yesterday morning for allegedly entering a Sweetwater Square apartment and walking around for about 30 minutes while the occupants were sleeping; he reportedly had a condom in his pocket and a dozen more condoms in his bag.

At about 6:30 a.m. on June 28, a Gainesville Police Department officer responded to an apartment in Building N at Sweetwater Square Apartments (3501 NE 15th Street), where a female victim said she woke up to find a man standing near her doorway. She said she rolled over and told another girl, who got up and quickly closed the door before calling a family member.

The officer reported that seven people were sleeping in the apartment, and none of them knew McNutt or invited him into the apartment, which was unlocked at the time of the incident.

When McNutt saw police lights, he reportedly tried to walk away from the apartment complex, but he was contacted by officers before he could leave. A condom was reportedly found in his pocket.

Post Miranda, McNutt reportedly said someone he could not describe called to him to “come help me with something” while he was standing near Building P.

The officer noted that the two buildings are about 100 feet apart, and it was not reasonable that McNutt could have heard someone calling from behind a closed door at that distance.

McNutt reportedly said that once he was inside the apartment, he wanted to check on everyone and make sure everything was “chill.” He said he looked into each bedroom and was in the apartment for about 30 minutes. He said he was the only one awake, and he did not speak to anyone, including the person he said had called to him.

McNutt said he had a condom in his pocket because he met someone downtown and thought they were going to engage in sexual intercourse; he did not know whether that person lived at Sweetwater Square. The officer reported that over a dozen condoms were found in McNutt’s bag.

McNutt, whose address is listed as Building P at Sweetwater Square, has been charged with burglary of an occupied dwelling. He has two felony convictions (one violent); he was arrested in February for carrying two pistols on the UF campus, and he was subsequently charged with choking and hitting another inmate at the Alachua County Jail. At the time of his February arrest, he was a custodian at Buchholz High School, but he is currently unemployed. He entered pleas of nolo contendere in both cases in May and was sentenced to 18 months of probation, with adjudication of guilt withheld.

Judge Joy Danne ordered him held without bail on the burglary charge, pending a hearing on a motion from the State Attorney’s Office to hold him without bail until trial; if the judge denies the motion, bail will be set at that hearing.

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