Staff report

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Alan Everett Squire, 40, was arrested yesterday and charged with 210 felonies (mostly for individual bullets) and two misdemeanors after allegedly accumulating charges during multiple incidents.

At about 10:20 p.m. on March 7, an Alachua County Sheriff’s Deputy responded to an apartment at The Greens at West End, where Squire allegedly threw an object at a glass sliding door of the apartment after finding that the locks were changed, breaking the glass and entering the apartment. A juvenile in the apartment came downstairs to see what happened, and Squire allegedly hit the juvenile; the juvenile reportedly sustained cuts from the glass that was all over the floor.

Squire left before the deputy arrived, and deputies unsuccessfully tried to find him in the area.

At about 7:31 a.m. on March 8, Squire allegedly came back to the apartment to remove some items, but he again left before deputies arrived, and their attempts to find him were again unsuccessful. Deputies learned that Squire had left in a green Ford Ranger with no tag.

At about 8:50 a.m., a call was received about a green Ford Ranger blocking a road in Tioga; neighbors told the responding deputy that a white man matching Squire’s description said his truck had broken down and asked if he could park it there. One of the witnesses reportedly provided surveillance video that confirmed Squire had been the driver of the truck.

Since the truck was blocking a roadway, deputies called a tow truck. A deputy reported that the owner of the truck could not be verified, but an inventory search of the vehicle produced several documents in Squire’s name. The search also reportedly produced several boxes of ammunition – 157 rounds of 9mm ammunition and 51 rounds of .38 Special ammunition – and debit cards belonging to the woman who lived at the apartment where the first two incidents occurred.

At about 11 a.m., a deputy returned to the apartment to give the woman her debit cards, and she gave the deputy her phone, saying that Squire had been texting her. The deputy reported that the most recent message was, “I will f***ing kill you [and the juvenile].” The victim said she hadn’t seen that message yet and that if the deputies were not there, she would have been “terrified”; she reportedly told deputies that she was concerned for her safety as long as Squire was at large.

At about 11:13 a.m., deputies located Squire near the intersection of SW 8th Avenue and Parker Road, where he allegedly fled on a bicycle but fell off the bicycle and was detained.

A search incident to arrest reportedly produced a pill bottle with pieces of buprenorphine pills; Squire reportedly does not have a prescription for the medication, and a witness told a deputy that Squire buys generic suboxone off the street (buprenorphine is one of the ingredients in suboxone).

Post Miranda, Squire reportedly declined to answer questions but later said someone had given him the pills and he didn’t know what they were.

Squire has been charged with making a written threat to kill, 208 counts of possession of ammunition by a convicted felon, possession of a controlled substance without a prescription, battery, and resisting an officer without violence. Squire has at least 10 felony convictions out of Putnam and St Johns counties and has served three state prison sentences; he was most recently released in 2020 after serving a 10-year sentence for robbery. Judge Donna Keim ordered him held without bail pending a hearing on a motion from the State Attorney’s office to hold him without bail until trial.

Articles about arrests are based on reports from law enforcement agencies. The charges listed are taken from the arrest report and/or court records and are only accusations. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.