A Del Webb Spruce Creek house painter with a history of violence was arrested Thursday after Marion County sheriff’s deputies received multiple calls about a man hitting a woman.
When they arrived at the residence on SE 94th Court, the victim said that she and 51-year-old Scott Michael Reagan had gotten into an argument over financial issues. She claimed that Reagan pushed her into a recliner by her shoulders and when she stood up to leave, he forcibly shoved her out the front door, causing her to fall down the stairs, a sheriff’s office report says.
The woman said she then ran down the street to get help and when she returned to the residence, she threw a paint bucket at the wall as deputies arrived on scene. Deputies noted that the woman was extremely upset and there was grass and dirt on the back of her tank top, consistent with her story of falling to the ground.
Reagan, who listed his employer as Custom Village Painting, claimed that the woman was going around their shared home breaking items. And he admitted to taking the woman by the shoulders and pushing her out the door, causing her to fall down the stairs, the report says.
Reagan also told deputies that during the struggle, the woman swung her right hand and hit him above the eye. He said she then left the house, came back a short time later and started to throw things around the residence. And he admitted that he was the first one to use his hands but claimed the woman then hit him, the report says.
Two eyewitnesses told the deputy they saw Reagan push the woman out the front door and down the steps. But neither said they saw the woman hit Reagan at any time, the report says.
Reagan was taken into custody and transported to the Marion County Jail, where he was charged with domestic battery. He was being held on $5,000 bond and is due in court on June 13 at 8 a.m. to answer to the charge.
Reagan is no stranger to the Marion County legal system, having been held in the jail eight times since April 2010. Some of the charges he’s face have included domestic battery, a warrant for domestic battery, two Pinellas County warrants on fraud charges, contempt of court, an Orange County warrant for failing to leave information on an unattended vehicle, a domestic child abuse warrant, a warrant for violating pretrial release conditions on a domestic battery charge, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and aggravated domestic assault.