The release of an arrest report is shedding light on the latest brawl at a home in the Haciendas of Mission Hills.
Robert J. Schaeffer, 66, is free on $3,000 bond after his arrest Friday night on charges of battery and resisting at his home on Avecilla Drive.
Sumter County sheriff’s deputies had been alerted after a neighbor reported hearing a loud argument at the home. When a deputy approached Schaeffer’s home and rang the door bell, he observed through the glass door that Schaeffer was pushing a woman. The deputy entered the home and separated Schaeffer and the woman.
Schaeffer claimed the woman bit him. He also refused to put his hands behind his back when deputies tried to handcuff him.
Schaeffer had been arrested this past August at his home.
At the time of that arrest, Schaeffer and his wife had been arguing for eight weeks before he “grabbed her by the throat and told her they were both going to die tonight,” according to an arrest report. He put his hands around her neck and tried to force her into a car. She was able to break free after she kneed him in the groin.
A deputy who examined the Ohio native’s wife found bruises on her body, including some that were a week old, the arrest report indicated.
Upon his release on $30,000 bond, Schaeffer was ordered not to have contact with his wife. Schaeffer’s attorney, Mark Timothy Conan, later filed a motion asking that the “no contact” order be softened so that Schaeffer could have “no hostile contact” with his wife. On the same day that motion was to go before a judge, the prosecutor’s office decided to drop the case.
State Attorney Brad King on Sept. 18 announced that charges of false imprisonment and domestic battery by strangulation against Schaeffer were being dismissed due to “victim/witness issues.”
