Man Sought After Jumping Fence Near Bus Depot in Gainesville, Gainesville FL

Disorderly Conduct

Reported: 09/03/2025 03:34 AM (PDT)

Gainesville, FL

Officers search for a man seen near the public bus depot carrying a skateboard. Witness reports him jumping a fence into a nearby storage unit and possibly moving toward Celebration Pointe. Police use a drone and set up a perimeter during the search.

Audio|Source: Gainesville Police and Alachua Fire

04:58

Transcript:

00:00

Dio photos says he's bald, but I guess one of the witnesses thought he might have had hair. So he's gonna be X, right? Ten for. All right, did your witness say he was riding his skateboard or just carrying it? I had a witness say he was just carrying a skateboard. So I'm gonna be out of the Exxon.

00:28

40th and archer, tracking form. Now it's excellent, 40th and archer. We may want to start thinking about expanding our search. I mean, you're looking about an hour since the crash, 30 minutes, 40 minutes since these last points mean, I mean, he could have made it out of the plaza by now and got on the skateboard much farther than that.

00:48

RTS just called in saying that they saw a mail matching the description, walking out of the bathroom at the bus depot, near Southwest 30th Avenue, walking towards Walmart.

00:57

Is that it now or is there a time-up? He's asking.

00:59

It's 6.31, so 8 minutes ago.

01:01

Do you still in that area?

01:03

I'm at Clark Buller in 33rd place.

01:05

Y'all give it a few minutes.

01:07

Bobby's got the drone airborne, he's going to slide over there now.

01:09

Kind of get a loose perimeter, low profile at this point.

01:11

Text and the LPO's there.

01:13

Gainesville, do we have anybody from CID that's unmarked or anything yet on the radio? Anybody from CID on the radio?

01:19

990 reference, I'm en route from Newberry and I just turned my radio on.

01:23

I can be of any help.

01:24

Oh, so that away is where I'm in Butler Plaza.

01:27

Any other detectives on duty?

01:28

Any detectives on duty on Channel 2?

01:30

Any detectives or unmarked vehicle on Channel 2?

01:33

All right guys, we're calling us he's trying to get on the bus, so let's go ahead and try to saturate that area now.

01:40

Bobby, are you up and above?

01:42

Yeah, I'll be a truck. Okay, but I don't think we have any protective coverage of this hour.

01:46

Do we know where the bus is? Yes.

01:47

At the bus depot just across the street from Walmart.

01:50

Yeah, he's still on foot, he did not get on the bus apparently.

01:52

Yeah, there's no buses here at the depot now.

01:54

The unit with a shield device?

01:56

You can pull a shield from Channel 2 in case we have to clear the bathrooms, please.

01:59

26. On his way already.

02:00

Son, you have a shield? I do not, but I can go back to turn around to get one.

02:05

Have you any response from LPO's at Walmart?

02:07

Do we have any units on this channel with a shield?

02:09

Bobby's there, he says, copy that, he'll be watching.

02:12

All right, see if you can check the cameras for like the last five minutes or so and see if he went in the store.

02:16

Foxshot 3.

02:17

Go ahead. Do you have a shield?

02:19

Gaines will notify ASO in case you went over the bridge.

02:22

Ten-four.

02:23

Fifty-four. I think November 32 is correct one.

02:26

Ten-four. Seven-four. Seven-nine-seven, two, fifty-five.

02:32

Ten-four.

02:33

I guess I'm referred to if you want to go get your shield.

02:35

Boxer 3 doesn't have his either.

02:36

Yeah, two the ones at this station.

02:37

James, though, there's a witness here at the RTS that says that he jumped the fence of the storage unit next to RTS and he looks like he's heading towards celebration point.

02:48

10-4[1]. So if you want to know the fly here, so...

02:52

26. Okay, some time laps on that.

02:54

Sounds like for a reason.

02:55

Bob, if you start flying over these storage units.

02:56

Yeah, I'm looking now.

02:57

All right, once we get a perimeter set, let's go high profile.

03:00

I'd like to try to get eyes on them before that happens, but if that's credible information, let's get them locked in here.

03:05

We're notifying ASO right now.

03:07

Do you want them to be 51?

03:08

No, 531. Just check in this channel 1 in traffic.

03:10

That's how far.

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Man Sought After Jumping Fence Near Bus Depot in Gainesville, Gainesville FL

Officers search for a man seen near the public bus depot carrying a skateboard. Witness reports him jumping a fence into a nearby storage unit and possibly moving toward Celebration Pointe. Police use a drone and set up a perimeter during the search.

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