Staff report

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Ollie Trey Williams III, 49, was arrested yesterday after allegedly entering his ex-girlfriend’s apartment without permission, cutting her with a glass bottle, and forcing her to go with him in his car.

At about 6:55 p.m. on November 28, Williams allegedly entered his ex-girlfriend’s house without her permission despite a no-contact order that was imposed after his July arrest for domestic battery.

The victim told the responding Gainesville Police Department officer that her door was locked, so she suspected Williams used a key that he had secretly made. Inside the house, Williams allegedly choked her and hit her on the arm with a glass bottle, causing severe bleeding that required medical treatment.

Williams allegedly forced the victim into the back seat of his car while he drove to several locations; she said she was afraid he would harm her again if she did not get into the car. The officer reported that there was blood in the back seat of Williams’s car.

After Williams drove back to her house, the victim ran to a neighbor’s residence, but Williams allegedly snatched her phone as she ran out and then ransacked her apartment by tossing food out of her refrigerator, turning furniture over, and smashing glass jars.

Post Miranda, Williams reportedly said he had driven by the residence but had never entered; he later said he was inside the apartment, but nothing happened. He also reportedly offered a third version of events in which he never went to the apartment but went to the other locations. He said the victim had injured herself “because she loves him so much.”

The officer noted that there was food on Williams’s shirt that matched the food thrown on the floor inside the apartment.

Williams has been charged with kidnapping while terrorizing the victim, aggravated battery causing bodily harm, burglary, robbery by sudden snatching, domestic battery by strangulation, and violating a domestic violence injunction. He has three felonies (one violent) and two misdemeanors (one violent); he has served one state prison sentence and was released in 2011. He was arrested in July 2024 for domestic battery and released on $5,000 bail with the condition that he have no contact with the victim. He is being 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.