Pair arrested for stealing mail from mailboxes and fleeing from officers

Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – T’kiyah Shujwanna Long, 26, and Jacari Rashard Washington, 28, were arrested last night and charged with 12 counts of theft after allegedly stealing mail at Cypress Glen Apartments. Long is currently in a pre-trial diversion agreement, and Washington was on pre-trial release following an arrest in January.
An off-duty law enforcement officer reported that Long and Washington were prying into mailboxes at the apartment complex (2130 NW 31st Avenue) and stealing mail; the officer reported that the pair left the area in a car.
Gainesville Police Department Officers found the car near SW 42nd Street and SW 20th Avenue and attempted a traffic stop, but the driver did not stop; the car drove down SW 43rd Street and then through the Walmart parking lot before parking at the RTS bus stop, where both driver and passenger fled on foot.
Washington, the passenger, was reportedly detained quickly, and Long was reportedly found about an hour later near the Staybridge Suites Hotel on SW 40th Boulevard.
Mail belonging to 12 victims were reportedly found in a garbage bag in a residential neighborhood south of Glen Springs Road, and Washington reportedly had mail pieces in his pockets.
A search of Washington incident to arrest reportedly produced a hollowed-out highlighter that is typically used for smoking marijuana.
Long has been charged with 12 counts of theft, resisting arrest without violence, and failing to obey an order to stop from a law enforcement officer. Long has three misdemeanor convictions (none violent) and is 7.5 months into a 9-month deferred prosecution agreement for possession of a controlled substance without a prescription. Judge Thomas Jaworski set bail at $140,000.
Washington has been charged with 12 counts of theft, resisting arrest without violence, and possession of drug paraphernalia; he was on pre-trial release following a January arrest in which he allegedly had a bag of stolen mail. His bond has been revoked in the January case, and Judge Jaworski set bail at $140,000 on the new charges.
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You know the man is down bad when he’s using a highlighter like a middle school delinquent.
Another article just today actually spoke about armed middle school delinquency.
Cypress Glen is a section 8 crime breeder ranch. One of about 25 in Gainesville alone. It’s tragic how lawyers designed them for that purpose, and then added disGRACE for the evicted.
It used to be called ‘Glen Springs Manor’, previously a section 8 hood. It closed for a while and got rebranded into what it is now.
I live there and I wasn’t on section 8 I paid 640 a month in 2005 so it wasn’t all just section 8 thank you
another pretrial diversin how is this all workin out
Another day of repeat offenders in the fair metropolis of Gainesville.
Not going to get much out of mailboxes in that neighborhood.
T’kiyah Shujwanna and Jacari Rashard : nuff said, no need to guess.
Seems to be an obvious pattern here wouldn’t you say? Obvious to all of us except for the woke DEI lefties who somehow think the life of crime they choose is caused by racism.
On this subject I think that they should be charged federally and equally because it is very wrong to steal someone’s mail no matter who you are I hope they get the maximum to teach them a lesson that it’s none of their business what somebody else has in their box