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GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Caleb James Martin, 20, who had been evading law enforcement since May due to a probation violation and faced additional warrants for domestic battery and stalking issued in March, was apprehended last night in a neighborhood near the University of Florida campus.
Late in the evening, around 11:53 p.m. on April 10, officers from the Gainesville Police Department (GPD) were called to the 1400 block of West University Avenue. They came to assist colleagues from the University of Florida Police Department (UFPD) and the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office (ASO) after Martin reportedly fled from a UFPD officer and entered a nearby residential area.
A UFPD officer eventually located and detained Martin, with GPD officers proceeding to formally arrest him. During the arrest, a search reportedly uncovered a bag containing approximately 3.2 grams of fentanyl.
In April 2025, Martin pleaded nolo contendere to charges of possessing a firearm as an adjudicated delinquent and resisting an officer without violence. Judge James Colaw opted to withhold a formal adjudication of guilt, instead sentencing Martin to one year of community control (house arrest), followed by two years of probation.
One month later, on May 11, 2025, he allegedly fled from a traffic stop, crashed the car, and then fled on foot. A sworn complaint was filed, but no warrant has been issued, and Martin has not been booked on the charges from that incident.
However, Martin was instructed to report to the community control officer at least once a week, and on May 13, 2025, he failed to report; a violation affidavit was filed, alleging that he had moved from the address he gave the community control officer, committed new criminal offenses, failed to report, and was not at his residence when an officer checked on him on May 14. A warrant for his arrest was issued on May 20, 2025.
On February 19, 2026, Martin allegedly punched his girlfriend and choked her until she was unconscious, preventing her from talking to deputies who arrived in response to her 911 call, which was abruptly ended. The same victim told an ASO deputy on March 15 that Martin was stalking her and had threatened to kill her, and the deputy reported that Martin called the victim multiple times from a blocked number while he was taking the victim’s report. Warrants for both of those incidents were issued on March 16.
Martin has been charged with violating probation, domestic battery by strangulation, false imprisonment, hindering communication with law enforcement, aggravated stalking, possession of fentanyl, and resisting an officer without violence. Judge David Kreider ordered him held without bail 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.
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