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Justin Watkins announces he’s leaving Florida

Justin Watkins career as a Florida Gator is over before he ever played a down.

The former four-star recruit from nearby Ocala was arrested for the second time in three months this past week and was just released from Alachua County Jail on a $40,000 bond Wednesday.

In May Watkins was arrested in Ocala after he allegedly broke a woman’s phone and kicked her car. Watkins was also charged for trespassing at Vanguard High School, where the incident occurred after school hours. He wasn’t a student at the school.

Tuesday a woman came forward alleging that Watkins pinned her down against the bed, choked her on three occasions and wouldn’t allow her to leave his dorm room at Keys Residential dormitory until she was able to use mace spry to get passed him.