A competency evaluation has been ordered for a Villager who attacked his neighbors with bug spray.
Sumter County sheriff’s deputies were called in April to a home on Culpepper way after 53-year-old Brian Gregory Anderson approached his neighbor, forcibly removed his eyeglasses and tried to spray him in the face, according to an arrest report from the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office. The neighbor’s wife came out and Anderson tried to spray her in the face, but she was able to get her hands up to protect herself. The couple later told deputies they had been locked in an ongoing dispute with Anderson.
While he was free on bond, the Buffalo, N.Y. native was arrested again in June after claiming he put a bounty on the heads of five police officers. He also threatened family members.
He has been held without bond at the Sumter County Detention Center since his June 18 arrest.
According to a document on file in Sumter County Court, a competency evaluation has been ordered for Anderson. The evaluation will be performed by Timothy Cashman, a licensed mental health counselor from Homosassa. He was consulted in 2016 in the case of a woman who had been arrested in a naked attack on an elderly man in The Villages.
The document indicated that Cashman’s evaluation of Anderson should be completed in October.