A 30-year-old man living with his grandmother in The Villages was arrested after suffering a seizure at the Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market at Sarasota Plaza.
Emergency personnel responded at 5:45 p.m. Friday to the parking lot of the store off County Road 466A, where they found Matthew Phillip Beaton in a white Ford Edge, according to an arrest report from the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office. The Michigan native, who is living at 609 San Marino Drive in the Village of De La Vista, had fresh track marks on his arm with blood oozing out, the arrest report said. Beaton, who was nervous and sweating profusely, also had old track marks on his hands and arms. There was a syringe in plain sight, as well as 11 syringes in the center console of the vehicle. He was also found to be in possession of cocaine.
Beaton was taken to The Villages Regional Hospital and after he was medically cleared he was transported to the Sumter County Detention Center. He was booked on charges of possession of cocaine and possession of drug equipment on $14,000 bond.
Beaton was arrested this past August after he was found sleeping in a Villages Property Management truck at Lake Sumter Landing. He had been free on $3,500 bond in that case.
