Pair arrested for breaking into home
Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Kenneth Lee Daniels, 62, and Wanda Vander Ellis, 66, were arrested late last night and charged with burglary of an unoccupied structure and drug charges after witnesses reported that the pair had removed glass from the window of a home and climbed inside.
At about 11:26 p.m., neighbors of an unoccupied home in the 600 block of NE 15th Street called 911 to report that the suspects had removed glass from the window of a home and climbed in through the window; they also reported that they saw the suspects with a flashlight inside the home and that the suspects had run across the roadway after leaving the home.
The resident of the home reportedly told the responding Gainesville Police Department Officer that nobody had permission to be in the home.
A search of Daniels, incident to arrest, reportedly found a glass crack pipe and a screwdriver. Post Miranda, Daniels reportedly said he had just come from the store and did not enter the home. The witnesses reportedly identified Daniels. He has been charged with burglary and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Daniels has one felony conviction (non-violent) and three misdemeanor convictions (none violent). He has served one state prison sentence, with his most recent release in 1990. Judge Susan Miller-Jones set bail at $50,100.
A search of Ellis, incident to arrest, reportedly found a glass crack pipe, gloves, a screwdriver, a solar light, and a small amount of a substance that tested positive for cocaine. Post Miranda, Ellis reportedly said she had come from the store and did not go near or enter the home. The witnesses reportedly identified Ellis. Ellis has been charged with burglary, possession of a controlled substance, and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Ellis has 14 felony convictions (none violent) and 23 misdemeanor convictions (none violent). She has served seven state prison sentences, with her most recent release in 2014. She had an active warrant for failure to appear at a hearing in a 2020 case; her probation was only supposed to last a year, but she was accused of violating probation after about five months, and a warrant for her arrest was issued in October 2020 after she failed to appear at a hearing. Judge Miller-Jones ordered her held without bail for violating probation and set bail at $60,100 on the new charges.
Articles about arrests are based on reports from law enforcement agencies. The charges listed are taken from the arrest report and/or court records and are only accusations. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
What can you say about senior citizen felons. Both have wasted their lives on smoking Crack and letting the glass pipe rule their world of crime.
This nice young couple should not be judged but instead should be tried to be understood. Maybe they thought the crack pipe belong to the person in the house and they were just trying to give it back. But no you want to jump to conclusion and assume this couple are the bad people. As the back-Ward Mayor of this town I will use my pudgie little hand to sign their clemency.
Stories like this crack me up.🤣
Gotta love what’s happening to Gainesville… This ain’t the town I grew up in.
Seven prison sentences later she’ll still suck the you know what off the devil for a hit of crack! Lock the bitch up for life, shes laughing at the system.
You really didn’t need to descend into curse words to get your point across. Or did you? Some people are so limited in vocabulary and intelligence that they use curse words but the curse words say more about them than they do the people they’re cursing at.
She is paying for her past she got her òwn family member killed payback.
Y’all not being fair on the male he had only one prison sentence and has not been back to prison since he got out in 1990 …some of the comments on here are just plain funny sometimes…. let the man free ROR him
For a college town, Gainesville has some really stupid people in it.
East Gainesville in the chronicle again.. What a surprise🤣🤣🤣
WTF “ Ellis has 14 felony convictions (none violent) and 23 misdemeanor convictions (none violent). She has served seven state prison sentences, with her most recent release in 2014”?
WRITE in a 3 Strikes and Sell the Courthouses Amendment, this November.
Can’t help but laugh at the look on that man’s face. Like “who me?” Yeah you dude.
Some people never learn and given this couple are in their 60s I doubt they ever will.