A Marion County sheriff’s deputy arrested a Citra man Sunday who was sitting in his golf cart waiting to go to jail.
When the deputy arrived at a home on W. Hwy. 318 in Citra, 59-year-old Peter Arthur Yarmosh climbed from his golf cart and immediately threw his hands in the air. When asked what happened, Yarmosh told the deputy that he was in his room listening to loud music when a woman came to his room and asked him to turn it down. “That’s it,” Yarmosh said, according a sheriff’s office report.
The deputy then spoke with an 80-year-old woman at the home who said she was in her living room when Yarmosh was playing music so loud that she couldn’t hear her television. She said she “grabbed her walker” where she stood at Yarmosh’s door and started asking him to turn down the music. She said he screamed an expletive-laced term at her as he got out of his bed and started coming toward her,” the report says.
The woman told the deputy that Yarmosh began pushing her and continued shouting, “I wish you were dead (expletive deleted).” She said she then turned and began walking back to the couch as Yarmosh pushed her from behind, the report says.
The woman added that Yarmosh pushed her approximately five times and she was able to maintain her balance using her walker. She said she grabbed her cell phone and went outside to call 911 for help while Yarmosh continued to scream at her, the report says, adding that the woman said this incident wasn’t the first time Yarmosh has had “anger issues.”
Yarmosh was taken into custody and during the trip to the Marion County Jail, he first admitted to pushing the elderly woman but then said, “I didn’t touch her,” the report says.
Yarmosh was charged with battery on a person 65 years of age or older and held on $5,000 bond. He is scheduled to appear in a Marion County courtroom on Nov. 13 at 9 a.m. to answer to the charge.
