A prominent City of Gainesville, FL., Attorney was arrested for prowling "in and around" a woman's home; the woman was startled awake by a noise just like a body in a tomb, suspended animation as I slip into your room - oops those are actually song lyrics to AC/DC's 'Night Prowler' but they fit perfectly.



Ronald D. Combs, 59, of 706 NE Fifth Place, is one of two senior assistant city attorneys. He has worked for the city as an attorney since March 1986, and records show his salary is $137,300.

City Attorney Nicolle Shalley could not be reached for comment Monday on Combs' employment status.

According to a Gainesville Police report that the Gainesville Sun obtained, the woman was in her home in the Historic Duck Pond neighborhood when the incident occurred shortly before 6 a.m. Saturday.

The woman told police a noise woke her and she saw a naked man standing in her bedroom who ran off when he saw that she was awake.

Once Police arrived on scene they chased the man, who turned out to be Combs, through yards and streets. He refused to stop and officers chased him to a house in the 700 block of Northeast Fifth Terrace, where they shot him with a Taser in order to apprehend him.

Combs remained in the Alachua County jail on Monday evening without bond on charges of burglary of an occupied dwelling, prowling and resisting arrest without violence.

I am sure that he knows a good attorney.