Wednesday, May 13, 2020

A Broken Tail Light and an unconVincing ID = Arrest


May 13, 2020

Deputy Mike Sinclair stopped a Toyota truck when he saw it had a broken tail light last night just east of Bronson. Deputy Sinclair spoke to the driver and noticed the passenger seemed nervous. When Deputy Sinclair asked for the passenger’s identification, the passenger told him he did not have one with him and offered to spell his name. 

Deputy Sinclair is a native of Bronson and also having gone to school here, knows quite a few Bronson residents. The passenger used Deputy Sinclair’s phone and typed in his name and birth day. Curious thing is, the name was misspelled and Deputy Sinclair knew the person the passenger claimed to be. The name he gave was a classmate of Deputy Sinclair’s in high school.

It didn’t take but a minute to figure out the real identity of the passenger. He answers to the nick name “June Bug.” June Bug or shall we call him Vincent (Williams) was a wanted man. Alachua County had two outstanding warrants for his arrest for many things including burglary, grand theft auto, fleeing the police as well as child abuse. The Alachua County courts assigned a $450,000 bond to these warrants. 

To make matters worse for Vincent he was also “holding” a gram of cocaine. Deputy Sinclair did not entertain Vincent’s pleas of “please, please, please, don’t charge me for lying to you,” and added the charges of possession of cocaine and providing a false name to law enforcement. 

Vincent Ivanhoe Williams III (10/1/91) who lists a Gainesville address and will be held at the Levy County Detention Facility on his current Levy County charges before being transferred to Alachua County.