Woman on pre-trial release arrested for falsely claiming an armed man was hiding in her bathroom and kicking two officers

Staff report

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Angela Mae Brown, 56, was arrested yesterday after allegedly falsely claiming a man was in her bathroom with a gun; after she was arrested, she allegedly kicked two police officers.

At about 12:20 p.m. on December 13, Gainesville Police Department officers responded to an apartment at Sweetwater Square (3101 NE 15th Street) after Brown called to say a man had broken into her apartment the previous night and pointed a gun at her head, and the same man was currently locked in her bathroom after breaking into her apartment again and pointing a gun at her; she provided the man’s full name.

The first officer to arrive conducted Brown away from her apartment while other officers assembled a tactical team to enter the apartment. However, while officers were making announcements that the man should come out, the man’s girlfriend arrived and said the man was at his own apartment in a different apartment complex. The girlfriend called the man, and the first officer spoke with him.

The tactical team went into the bathroom and found it empty, and the first officer arrested Brown for filing a false report. When officers tried to place Brown in the back of a patrol car, she allegedly kicked one officer on the leg and another officer in the groin.

Brown has been charged with filing a false report and two counts of battery on a law enforcement officer. She has 12 felony convictions (seven violent) and 18 misdemeanor convictions (two violent) and has served five state prison sentences, with her most recent release in 2016. She is on pre-trial release after posting $5,000 bail for an alleged shoplifting incident in August 2024. Judge Susan Miller-Jones set bail at $150,000 on the new charges.

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