Staff report

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Zyvione Jacolby Speed-Mitchell, 24, who has been in the Alachua County Jail since May 10, has been charged with 303 counts of making phone calls to his victim despite a court order to have no contact with her.

Speed-Mitchell was arrested on May 10 and charged with domestic battery and resisting arrest without violence, along with violating his probation in a previous domestic battery case.

According to a report from an Alachua County Sheriff’s Detective, despite an order from Judge Susan Miller-Jones at his 9 a.m. First Appearance hearing to have no contact with the victim, Speed-Mitchell called her at 10:17 a.m. the morning after his arrest.

Between May 10 and August 26, Speed-Mitchell allegedly called the victim 303 times from the jail’s phone system, which provides free calls to inmates. The report alleges that Speed-Mitchell apologized for his actions on the calls but “continued to use possessive and controlling behaviors toward the victim.”

The detective requested that Speed-Mitchell’s calls and visits be limited to his attorney.

The domestic battery charges were dropped this morning. On July 17, Judge Kristine Van Vorst signed an order that required the victim to appear as a witness, but the victim could not be found, so the order was not served.

Speed-Mitchell has three felony convictions (one violent) and one misdemeanor conviction (one violent). He has served one state prison sentence for aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and was released in 2022. At the time of his May arrest, he was on probation for domestic battery, and he is currently being held without bail for violation of probation, but his attorney has filed a motion for his release because formal charges were never filed in the domestic battery case that was the reason for the violation of probation (not only were formal charges never filed, the initial charges were dropped today).

Judge Mark Moseley set bail at $25,000 on the first count and $500 each for the other 302 counts, for a total of $176,000, and ordered that Speed-Mitchell’s phone and video access be limited to his attorney.

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