Man on probation arrested for hitting cyclist and leaving scene

Staff report

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Corey Patrick Kelly, 35, was arrested yesterday and charged with leaving the scene after hitting a cyclist outside the Aldi on NW 13th Street on January 21; he was also booked on warrants for failing to appear at hearings in a DUI case and a case in which he had violated probation.

At about 8:17 a.m. on January 21, Kelly allegedly hit a cyclist who was riding a bicycle in the driveway on the NW 39th Avenue side of Aldi (3773 NW 13th Street). Two minutes later, a resident of a nearby apartment complex heard a bang and went outside to find a damaged parked car and a pickup truck that had crashed into a creek with the front driver’s door open.

A witness in the apartment complex told a responding Gainesville Police Department officer that a man had come up to him and asked him for a ride, but he refused, and the man fled on foot.

Kelly has been charged with leaving the scene of a crash involving non-serious personal injury, leaving the scene of an accident involving property damage, and driving without a valid license.

Kelly was also booked on warrants in two other cases: he was arrested for driving under the influence in June 2025 and entered a plea of nolo contendere to the charge on December 2025 with a proposed sentence of 180 days in jail, but he failed to appear at a hearing on January 27. The DUI arrest also violated his probation for vehicle theft and drug possession from a 2023 case, and he failed to appear at a February 2 hearing in that case.

Judge David Kreider set bail at $100,000 in his January 29 arrest warrant on the new charges, and Judge Mitchell Bishop added $5,000 in the DUI case and ordered him held without bail until the probation violation is resolved.

Kelly has 10 felony convictions (non-violent) and 10 misdemeanor convictions (non-violent) and has served two state prison sentences, with his most recent release in 2023; he is on probation until 2027 in the vehicle theft case.

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