A 20-year-old woman was arrested on a battery charge after a domestic spat escalated into a flurry of flying kitchen utensils and hair-pulling.
Deputies from the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office responded to a disturbance at about 5 p.m. Saturday at the Parker at East Village apartments near BJ’s Wholesale in Lady Lake.
Upon arrival, deputies found Samaria Green and a man friend engaged in a heated verbal argument. According to the arrest report, Green had discovered something that sparked the altercation.
When questioned, Green caught herself mid-sentence, initially telling a deputy, “I threw…” before quickly changing her story and claiming the argument never turned physical. However, deputies noted fresh injuries to her right knuckles that were consistent with a closed-fist strike.
The victim painted a much more vivid picture of the dispute, telling deputies that Green “beat him up” by punching him on both sides of his face, hurling kitchen utensils at him, and aggressively yanking his hair.
While inspecting the kitchen, deputies found the physical evidence to back up his story. A utensil tray and miscellaneous kitchen implements were found scattered wildly across the floor. They also discovered a patch of the victim’s hair resting on the kitchen tiles, which he confirmed had been ripped from his head during the scuffle.
Green stuck to her story and denied the attacks, but based on her scraped knuckles and the messy kitchen crime scene, she was determined to be the primary aggressor.
Green was booked at the Sumter County Detention Center and released after posting $50 bond.