A Villager who had previously been ordered into anger management has been jailed after a fight at a restaurant at a town square in The Villages.
Wildwood police were called to investigate the fight which occurred at about 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Prima Italian Steakhouse at Brownwood Paddock Square.
The first officer on the scene spotted a red Toyota RAV4 which was attempting to leave the parking lot, according to an arrest report from the Wildwood Police Department. During a traffic stop, a passenger in the vehicle was identified as 47-year-old Pamela Lyness, who lives in the Crestview Villas in the Village of Buttonwood. Lyness and the driver were reluctant to admit where they had been, the report indicated. Lyness became “argumentative.”
Officers made multiple requests for Lyness to exit the vehicle, but she refused. An officer reached in to unbuckle her seatbelt, but she tensed up and would not cooperate. She was “escorted to the ground” and handcuffed. Police officers continued to try to question her about the incident at the restaurant, but she was “verbally argumentative.” She was seated on a curb, but fell over. When officers tried to put her back into a seated position, she kicked an officer with her right foot. During her interaction with police, the Biloxi, Miss. native was “yelling obscenities and other abusive language.”
Lyness was arrested on felony charges of battery on a law enforcement officer and resisting arrest. She was booked at the Sumter County Detention Center on $10,000 bond.
Lyness had been arrested in 2020 after an incident at City Fire at Lake Sumter Landing. She said a man had been “spreading rumors” about her. Lyness spotted the man at an outside table at City Fire and invited him to “fight” her, the arrest report said. When a deputy attempted to speak with Lyness, she showed “irrational behavior.” She was arrested on a charge of battery. However, that charge was dismissed after Lyness completed an anger management course, which was part of a pre-trial intervention contract in which she entered into with the court.
