A woman was transported by ambulance to UF Health-The Villages Hospital after an attack over breakfast.
The woman was “bleeding extensively from her face” when Lake County sheriff’s deputies arrived on the scene early Labor Day morning on Hobby Way in Lady Lake, according to an arrest report. The woman’s front tooth had been dislodged at the hands of her alleged attacker, 32-year-old Alexander Tanel Smith. The woman was transported by Lake EMS to the hospital.
Smith, who was arrested in 2018 after an alleged attack on his girlfriend’s mother who confronted him about a threatening Facebook post, claimed an altercation broke out while he was making pancakes, the report said. Another man said Smith struck him on the head with a coffee pot.
As he was being interviewed by deputies, Smith became “angry” and charged at the law enforcement officers. Deputies had to restrain him on the ground “until he calmed down,” the report said.
Smith was arrested on two counts of aggravated battery, a charge of assault on a law enforcement officer and a charge of possession of drug paraphernalia. He was booked at the Lake County Jail on $17,000 bond.