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Registered Career Offender arrested for stabbing girlfriend

January 24, 2024

Staff report

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Dashad Jaron Clark, 36, was arrested last night and charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon after allegedly stabbing his girlfriend multiple times.

A Gainesville Police Department officer responded to Forest & Village Apartments, 3101 NE 15th Street, at about 8:45 p.m. last night, and the victim reportedly said she and Clark had been arguing. A third person got involved, and the victim said that when both Clark and the other person armed themselves with knives, she tried to get between them to separate them. She said Clark pushed her and the other person to the ground and stabbed her multiple times with a curved knife; she reportedly suffered a five-inch cut on her triceps and a puncture wound to her ankle.

Witnesses reportedly corroborated her story, saying they saw Clark stab her multiple times with an up-and-down motion; they also said the knife had a curved blade that was about eight inches long.

Post Miranda, Clark reportedly said he had been arguing with the victim and that the other person stood between them and pulled a knife. He said he was trying to avoid confrontation when the victim tried to separate him from the other person and that she had hit him multiple times in the face. He said the victim took the other person into another room, then the other person came back with two knives; he said the victim grabbed the other person, and they both fell to the ground. He said the victim was injured with the other person’s knives. He denied carrying a knife and denied knowing that the victim had been stabbed.

Clark is a Registered Career Offender who has a juvenile criminal history, 15 adult felony convictions (none violent), and 19 misdemeanor convictions (none violent). He has served five state prison sentences, all out of Alachua County, with his most recent release in June 2021. Judge Thomas Jaworski set bail at $500,000, with a require for a GPS monitor upon release.

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 did the justice system think would happen. Career offender unleased upon society. Maybe he can go away for life.

      • What part of registered career offender only sa yr s violent felonies. Look up the law sweetheart it’s pretty clear that this scholar fits the mold.

  • Claw back all the salaries and court fees from his previous public lawyers and judges. Just put juries in charge of the local courts. Problem solved.

  • Your housing subsidies hard at work — for public lawyers 🤡👹🍦🍦🍦🍦ACLU-SPLC

  • If ONLY the City Commission would pass a motion banning knife 🔪 violence! And can’t our local state attorneys office hold a community summit on addressing knife violence? Oh, I just sit here wringing my wittle hands…😯

    • Yeah…we’re having a “knife violence crisis”…wonder if any of that Covid America money is left…

  • 15 adult felony convictions and still walking the streets. Alachua county has turned to s@#% judicially. Judges letting folks out on ROR. Ankle monitors with dead or no batteries. Sadly, until the voting population rises up it will continue to get worse.

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