Woman on probation arrested for felony battery and threatening to kill officers

Staff report

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Ashley Chanta Days, 28, was arrested early yesterday morning and charged with felony battery, resisting an officer, and making a threat to kill an officer after allegedly forcing her way into an apartment at Eastwood Meadows, attacking the resident, resisting arrest, and making statements about wanting to shoot and kill the responding deputies.

An Alachua County Sheriff’s Deputy responded to the apartment at Eastwood Meadows at about 3 a.m. on March 9, where the victim reportedly said that Days had forced her way into the apartment through a barricaded back door and that she woke up with Days on top of her, dragging her by the hair. Days is reportedly known to the victim and to law enforcement, and there are previous reports of violence between Days and the victim.

The victim said she fought back to defend herself, and when she tried to call 911, Days took her phone to call 911 first.

Both women had injuries, but deputies identified Days as the aggressor and arrested her on a charge of battery with a prior battery conviction. When they tried to place Days in the back of a patrol car, she allegedly resisted and said deputies would have to shoot her.

Days asked to be transported to the hospital because of her injuries, so a deputy followed the ambulance. When he arrived with other deputies at the hospital, Days allegedly made multiple statements about wanting to shoot and kill the deputies that responded. The deputy reported that she made these statements repeatedly until she was moved to a private exam room.

Days has juvenile convictions, four adult felony convictions (three violent), and 22 adult misdemeanor convictions (one violent). She was arrested on February 7, 2024, by a deputy responding to a call about a disturbance at the same Eastwood Meadows address; she had an outstanding Levy County warrant for felony battery, so the deputy arrested her on that warrant and on four drug charges. On February 15, she entered a plea to one of the drug charges (with a maximum penalty of five years in prison), and the other three charges were dropped. She was sentenced to 18 months of drug offender probation on February 20.

Judge Lorelie Brannan set bail at $35,000 on the new charges; Days has not yet been charged with violation of probation.

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