Marion County sheriff’s deputies scrambled to a Summerfield home Tuesday after receiving reports of a violent altercation.
When deputies arrived at the residence on SE 69th Lane, they spoke with a man who was bleeding from a laceration to his face. He said he had been in a verbal altercation that turned physical with 39-year-old Tianne Marlena James, a sheriff’s office report states.
The man said the verbal altercation started when the couple was in bed and turned physical when James smashed a bedroom window and started attacking him. The man claimed she slapped and grabbed him multiple times in his neck and facial area. And he said he used his arms to defend himself and keep her at a distance before suffering the facial laceration from her fingernails, the report says.
James claimed that the man pushed her into the window and when she went around the bed, he choked her. She said a juvenile who had already been picked up by another family member witnessed the altercation and she gave deputies permission to speak with her by telephone, the report says.
The juvenile initially said she saw the man choking James but when asked if saw James’ hands, she said she did not. When asked again if she saw the man choking James, she said no and added that she was in another room and didn’t observe the confrontation at all, the report says, adding that James didn’t appear to have any injuries.
Deputies made contact with the man a second time and he said James sat them down in the living room prior to deputies’ arrival and began “coaching” them on what to say, including that she was choked, the report says.
James was taken into custody and transported to the Marion County Jail, where she was charged with domestic battery. She was released Thursday morning on $1,000 bond and is due in court Aug. 7 at 1 p.m. to answer to the charge.
James is no stranger to the Marion County legal system, having been held in the jail 13 times since December 1997. During those arrest she’s faced charges of:
- Armed burglary;
- Possession of stolen property;
- Possession of drug paraphernalia;
- Possession of a firearm by a convicted felon;
- Possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony,
- Aggravated battery,
- Principle to a strong-arm robbery;
- Driving while license suspended;
- Giving a false name to a law enforcement officer; and
- Possession of cocaine.
In the past, James also has violated her probation on charges of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, grand theft, possession of cocaine and possession of cannabis less than 20 grams. And she’s been picked up on a warrant for failure to appear in court.