A Wildwood man was arrested for assault after allegedly threatening to stab his girlfriend with a screwdriver during an argument.
An officer responded to the Magnolia at Powell apartment of 40-year-old Jason Robert Flores regarding a disturbance around 8:50 p.m. Tuesday, according to an arrest report from the Wildwood Police Department.
Flores told the officer that he had gotten into a verbal altercation with his girlfriend of seven years due to finances. She tried to leave, so he took the license plate off the vehicle because it belonged to him. He then went upstairs into their room, where the verbal altercation continued, but nothing physical happened, the report said.
His girlfriend corroborated that the couple has been arguing in the kitchen. They also argued over the license plate.
However, the girlfriend’s daughter, who was upstairs at the time, could hear the altercation. She told a different story.
She said she heard Flores threaten to kill and harm the girlfriend. They both then walked out to the car, and Flores took the tag off of it. They started arguing over the tag and pulling on it until Flores eventually gave it up to his girlfriend, the report said.
Flores proceeded to walk back into the apartment, where he threatened to stab his girlfriend with the screwdriver he used to take off the tag. He next walked upstairs to his bedroom and threw a chair downstairs. The daughter subsequently left the apartment and called the police, the report said.
She did not see anything physical, yet Flores’s erratic behavior made her fear for her mother and her own safety. She also took a video of the couple fighting over the tag, but it was blurry and had no evidentiary value, the report said.
At that point, the officer reinterviewed Flores, who maintained that nothing physical happened. He added that he was very upset and broke a chair and a keyboard when he threw them downstairs. He did not throw them at his girlfriend, just out of frustration, the report said.
The officer also spoke to the girlfriend again. She stated Flores threatened to kill her in the kitchen, and he was so aggressive that she feared he would harm her or her children.
Flores was arrested on charge of domestic assault and booked at the Sumter County Detention Center without bond.