Jonathan Kirkland was booked into jail on Nov. 22, 2020; Feb. 26 and Aug. 26, 2021; and Jan. 21, April 9 and Oct. 30, 2023. A man who's no stranger to the law in Florida was arrested again after sheriff's deputies heard a man "loaded up a gray backpack and took off running behind the liquor store.
The footage revealed the defendant entered the store, grabbed a gray backpack, and began to fill it with unpaid merchandise from different departments within the store.”Soon after, another deputy and a store employee found Jonathan Kirkland near a retention pond in the area. The employee confirmed Kirkland was the person “who completed the theft and fled from him. The defendant was also in possession of the stolen items.”Kirkland was then arrested and read his Miranda warning, but the arrest report said heHe was charged with retail theft and resisting, and his bail was set at $3,000.The arrest report listed convictions for grand theft on Jan. 10, 2010; and petit theft on Jan. 11, 2013, and Nov. 22, 2020. It did not say where those convictions occurred.
Kirkland has had trouble in nearby Lake County in recent years. He was booked and eventually released five times since the Nov. 22, 2020, event.