A registered Republican man residing in The Villages, Florida area has been released from a six month bid the Sumter County Detention Center after his June 2023 arrest for breaking and entering the Red Lobster at at Buffalo Ridge Plaza, Villages-News.com reports. The arrest occurred when a Sumter County sheriff’s deputy responded to a burglar alarm at approximately 2:00 AM and found 36 year-old Ronald Eric Johnson (no relation to Wisconsin Senator Ronald Harold Johnson) sitting in an Adirondack chair near the restaurant’s entrance, bar glass in his hand.
It was Johnson’s third arrest at a national chain establishment in as many years, as he was previously cuffed for mumbling incoherent statements” to guests at an area Holiday Inn Express in 2022 and for stealing a shopping cart from a Dollar General store in 2021.