16-year-old arrested for showing off gun, weeks after being released from detention

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - The Alachua County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a 16-year-old just weeks after being released from juvenile detention for showing off a firearm online.

On Wednesday, detectives searched a home in the Linton Oaks neighborhood and arrested Demetrius Cowart on the charge of possession of a firearm by an adjudicated delinquent.

On March 5, 2022, Cowart posted a live feed on video standing outside an apartment building in Majestic Oaks holding a firearm. Authorities responded and Coward fled into an apartment with a woman and two small children inside. Two stolen weapons were recovered.

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Coward was arrested and held in the Department of Juvenile Justice until he was released on Feb. 14, 2023. On Monday, just weeks after being released, Cowart posted a photo of himself with a .22 caliber firearm.

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