Staff report

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Bryan Maverick Williams, Jr., 29, was cited for driving without a valid license today and arrested on a warrant for stealing a car, gun, cash, and other items.

On September 4, 2023, an Alachua County Sheriff’s Deputy responded to a home in Gainesville where a woman said she had been dating Williams for about two months, but he was a guest in her home and did not live there. She said that after she fell asleep, her purse was taken out of her bedroom; her gun was taken from her car, which was “out of commission” at the time; and her mother’s car was stolen. Her purse reportedly contained her driver’s license, the key to her car, and $700 cash.

The victim reported that Williams was not responding to attempts to contact him, but a mutual acquaintance reportedly told her that Williams took the items “in order to provide something of value to an unknown person he owed money to.”

Williams has been formally charged with grand theft of a motor vehicle, grand theft of a firearm, and grand theft of $750 or more, and a capias for his arrest was issued on January 24. At 3:20 a.m. this morning, he was cited for driving without a valid license and was arrested on the capias.

Williams has a juvenile criminal history between 2010-2013, three felony convictions (none violent), and one misdemeanor conviction (non-violent). Judge Thomas Jaworski set bail at $72,000.

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