A Villager was arrested after an altercation with a police officer responding to a complaint of an intoxicated smoker at a swimming pool.
Officers responded shortly before 6 p.m. Saturday to the pool in the Village of DeLuna where they found 64-year-old Lyle Thomas Parrot of 4529 Benjamin Place, who was “belligerent” and using “profanities,” according to an arrest report from the Wildwood Police Department. He was “extremely intoxicated” and “slurring his speech.”
Parrot, a former used car dealer in Traverse City, Mich., was identified by his Villages ID which was found on a table near the pool. He demanded the return of the ID when he saw the officer looking at it and then writing his name in a notebook.
“Give me that goddam ID back,” Parrot said.
He made a fist and took a swing at the officer. A second officer was able to catch Parrot’s arm before he landed the punch.
Parrot continued to call the officers vulgar names, including “white trash” and “crooked cops.”
Parrot’s wife was also at the pool and when officers placed Parrot in the backseat of a squad car, he ordered his wife to “run.”
Parrot was arrested on a charge of simple assault on a law enforcement officer. He was booked at the Sumter County Detention Center and released after posting $500 bond.