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On October 19, 2023, Gainesville Police Department
In April 2025, Gainesville Police Department officers arrested Alex Lewis Smith, 49, for child sexual abuse and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
The young adult victim reported that Smith had sexually
Alachua County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested registered sex offender Bradford Keith Gary, 33, Thursday for two registration violation charges.
In 2014, a jury in Alachua County found Gary guilty of committing sexual
Correction | May 26:
The headline was changed.
The initial update did not report Matthew Hernandez's probation sentence.
It was initially reported that Assistant State Attorney Nicole Reed signed off on the
On April 1, Thomas Andrew Ray, 37, was placed into the custody of the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) to begin serving an 18-month prison sentence.
Ray’s path to prison began nearly
