Staff Report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – A 20-year-old resident of Alachua, Andrew Allen Lewis, has been taken into custody on 15 charges connected to two incidents involving domestic violence and threats directed at a law enforcement officer during his arrest.
On June 13, in the afternoon, a deputy from the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office responded to a distress call from a woman who was audibly upset during the phone call.
The woman reported to the deputy that she and Lewis had been involved in an on-and-off relationship for more than a year. She had invited him over to her home the previous evening to socialize. However, Lewis became agitated upon discovering that McDonald’s was closed, leading to a heated argument between them. Seeking to avoid further conflict, she retreated to her bedroom and secured the door, but Lewis attempted to force entry by pulling on the French doors until the surrounding trim gave way.
Despite her requests for him to leave, Lewis refused. They eventually spent the night sleeping in different rooms. The following day, her attempts to get him to leave were again met with refusal.
The victim said Lewis became angry and took her phone; she got it back and tried to run outside to call 911, but Lewis took her phone again and threw it on the ground. When he went to his vehicle, she picked up her phone, went back inside, and locked the door. Lewis allegedly forced his way into the back door while she was calling 911, grabbed her around the neck, and tried to take her phone again. The victim tried to escape, and Lewis allegedly held her in her residence against her will, but she was finally able to escape to her bedroom.
Lewis allegedly started throwing items around in the living room, damaging several items, and then went into the victim’s bedroom, picked her up, and threw her into a mirror before grabbing her phone, purse, and computer and running to his vehicle. The victim was able to retrieve her items, and Lewis allegedly followed her back into her residence before hearing sirens; as he left, he alleged said, “If you press charges, I will kill your family and shoot your house up.”
At about 2:56 p.m., deputies conducted a traffic stop on Lewis’s vehicle as it exited I-75 onto NW 39th Avenue. Lewis was placed in the back of a patrol car and allegedly started kicking the interior of the prisoner compartment, damaging a speaker housing and causing damage estimated at $750. He also allegedly tried to kick out the rear window of the vehicle and opened the deputy’s personal drink cooler, which was on the floor in the back seat, and drank multiple bottles of a sports drink.
On the way to the jail, Lewis allegedly told the deputy he would get shot one day in the line of duty. When the deputy asked whether that was a threat, Lewis said it was “a foreshadowing.” Later, Lewis allegedly said that he wanted to fight the deputy and “would whip the living sh** out of you.”
Lewis has also been charged in a domestic battery incident from June 8. The responding deputy wrote that the victim’s nose was swollen and out of shape, and there was dried blood on her face. She said Lewis had come to her residence, where they had gotten into an argument and she locked herself in the bathroom and started a video recording. The video reportedly shows her telling Lewis to leave several times.
She eventually came out of the bathroom, thinking Lewis had left, but she found him in the kitchen area, where he allegedly charged at her, grabbed her, and threw her into the wall of the hallway before dragging her into a room and slamming her head into the door frame. When the victim screamed, Lewis let go, and she ran for the front door, where Lewis allegedly grabbed her phone and held it over her head. As Lewis continued to pull at her shirt, he allegedly kneed her in the face and broke her nose before slamming her onto the ground and injuring her hand. When she yelled that she was calling the cops, he fled out the back door.
Lewis has been charged with two counts of hindering communication with 911 services, burglary with battery, tampering with a witness, felony property damage, false imprisonment, two counts of domestic battery, two counts of threatening to harm a law enforcement officer, misdemeanor property damage, resisting an officer without violence, and three counts of theft. He has no criminal convictions; he was arrested in 2025 for burglary of a vehicle and resisting an officer without violence, but the charges were later dropped. Judge David Kreider ordered him held without bail on the false imprisonment and burglary with battery charges, pending a hearing on a motion from the State Attorney’s Office to hold him without bail until trial; if the judge denies the motion, bail will be set at that hearing. Judge Joy Danne added $20,000 bail on the second domestic battery incident.
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.