A son arrested in an alleged attack on his father in The Villages will escape prosecution in the case.
Sumter County sheriff’s deputies were called at 8:50 p.m. Dec. 8 to a home on Carvello Drive in the Village of Santiago, where a 70-year-old man said he had been in “fear for his life” after a physical battle with his 30-year-old son, Parker Jake Arnold, according to an arrest report from the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office. The Villager said his son is bi-polar and he was “angry” because he wanted additional medication, the report said. Arnold, who stands 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighs 220 pounds, pushed his father into a corner in the kitchen. Arnold told his father that he would hurt him if he tried to leave. The battle went on for about five minutes.
“It was obvious, by the victim’s demeanor, that he was in fear of the defendant,” the deputy wrote in the arrest report.
Arnold was arrested on a felony charge and sat in jail for three days before being bonded out.
The prosecutor’s office recently announced that no information would be filed in the case due to “victim/witness issues.”
In 2017, Arnold had been tracked down at his father’s house two days after leaving the scene of a four-vehicle-chain-reaction crash on U.S. Hwy. 441 near the Wal-Mart store in Summerfield. He was not prosecuted in that case.
