Marion County deputies arrested an unemployed Belleview woman Thursday night after she called deputies for help following a violent scuffle at a home on SE 98th Lane.
When deputies arrived, 38-year-old Trudie Amanda Clark told them the man who owned the home came into her room and started pushing and hitting her. She claimed the man got her in a chokehold and “started to wrestle with her on the ground.”
But the homeowner and two other people in the house told a different story. The homeowner said he believes Clark “has a bad drug problem,” so he asked her to keep her door open and to follow his rules. That way, the man said, he “knows she’s not doing drugs in her room,” a sheriff’s office report states.
The man said he opened the door to Clark’s room and she “became upset, threw a blue basket at him, bit him on his chest and began hitting him,” the report says, adding that the man pushed her down in an attempt to get away but the altercation continued.
The homeowner’s son and Clark’s nephew told similar accounts of what happened Thursday night. They all agreed that Clark “started the altercation” and hit the homeowner first, the report says.
The deputy noted in his report that Clark had red marks around her shoulder and legs and the homeowner had a bite mark on his right pectoral, “which is consistent with his statement.”
Clark was taken into custody and transported to the Marion County Jail, where she was charged with battery. She was being held on $10,000 bond and is due to appear in court Aug. 24 at 8 a.m. to answer to the charge.