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UF signee Justin Watkins suspended indefinitely following arrest

Related Topics: Arrest, Vanguard High School

UF signee Justin Watkins has been suspended from team activities indefinitely following his second arrest in 10 weeks.

Watkins, a former standout at Clermont’s East Ridge and top Gators’ recruit, is in Alachua County Jail Tuesday facing four charges including false imprisonment/kidnapping and domestic battery by strangulation. Each is a third-degree felony, according to the Alachua County inmate log.

“Justin Watkins has been suspended immediately from all activities,” coach Dan Mullen said through a UF spokesman.

Watkins also was arrested May 9 in Ocala after he allegedly kicked a female's car, broke her phone and then followed her to Ocala’s Vanguard High School, where she was a student.