Woman arrested twice in 30 hours in two different Archer Road hotel lobbies

Staff report

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Toshia Lynn Wrenn, 34, was arrested at 6 p.m. on February 22 and at 5 a.m. on February 24 in two different Archer Road hotel lobbies.

On February 22, a Gainesville Police Department (GPD) officer responded to Drury Inn & Suites (4000 SW 40th Blvd), where the manager said Wrenn had been asked to leave multiple times; after refusing to leave, Wrenn reportedly started walking across the lobby toward the dining room. When the manager again told her to leave, Wrenn allegedly screamed at the manager and “rushed into her,” grabbing the manager’s hair and neck. The manager said she was hit multiple times in the head area by Wrenn before multiple bystanders pulled Wrenn off her.

An off-duty law enforcement officer reportedly held Wrenn on the ground until the GPD officer arrived.

A witness reportedly told the GPD officer that he had to physically pry Wrenn’s fingernails off the manager and that he was scratched on the arm while struggling with her.

The officer reported that the manager had multiple red marks and a laceration that corroborated her account of the incident.

Post Miranda, Wrenn reportedly said she was sorry and did not mean to hurt anyone. She said she must have been asleep during the incident and did not remember it.

Wrenn was charged with battery, trespassing after a request to leave, and disorderly conduct, all misdemeanors. She was identified with her Alaska driver’s license and has no criminal convictions. Judge William Davis ordered her released on her own recognizance with the condition that she not return to Drury Inn & Suites and the standard condition that she not violate any laws.

At about 5:18 a.m. on February 24, a different GPD officer responded to an incomplete 911 call from Double Tree by Hilton (3726 SW 40th Blvd), where he recognized Wrenn as someone he had dealt with earlier in the day when he responded to a 911 call and was told by Wrenn after his arrival that she did not want law enforcement or emergency medical services.

The officer reported that while he was speaking with Wrenn, she started calling 911, saying, “This is an emergency,” and hanging up the phone; the Combined Communications Center staff reported that she called over seven times while the officer was there.

An employee of the hotel reportedly said he wanted Wrenn trespassed, and when the officer told Wrenn she was trespassed, she allegedly started walking out but refused to leave by the front entrance and refused to comply with the officer’s instructions. The officer attempted to detain her, and she allegedly swatted his hands away and pulled her arms away.

She was charged with resisting an officer without violence, unauthorized use of 911 services, and trespassing after a request to leave, all misdemeanors. Judge Meshon Rawls set bail at $4,000.

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