A Marion County sheriff’s deputy arrested an Ocala man late Tuesday morning after his neighbors called 911 to report a violent altercation on his front lawn.
The neighbors told the deputy that 48-year-old Christopher Mark Moon and a woman were “throwing punches at each other, shoving and pulling.” And they said a 13-year-old boy at the home, located in the 900 block of W Hwy. 326, was trying to break up the battle, a sheriff’s office report states.
The deputy went to a nearby school to check on the teenager, who said he saw Moon punch the woman in the chest during the fight. The deputy then returned to the residence on Hwy. 326 and made contact with the woman, who “was visibly upset, shaking and avoiding” questions, the report states.
Eventually, the woman told the deputy that Moon “woke up yelling and getting in her face, shoving her and poking his finger into her.” The woman showed the deputy bruising on the inside of her left upper arm and an open, bloody sore on her right big toe. She said she wasn’t sure how she received the injuries but added they could be from Moon “shoving her outside,” the report says.
The woman also told the deputy that she attempted to dial 911 on her cell phone during the incident but Moon “grabbed the phone out of her hand and refused to give it back.” She added that he eventually gave the phone back to her in exchange for truck keys. And she showed the deputy an outgoing 911 call on her phone placed at 8:28 a.m., the report says.
The deputy then spoke with Moon, who was at work at Marcum Construction, located at 2501 NW 35th St. After being read his rights, Moon said the fight with the woman involved “only yelling” and wasn’t physical. When the deputy asked Moon about blood on his chin, he wiped it away and pointed to an open wound on his right forearm that he claimed happened during the argument, the report says.
Moon was taken into custody and a small glass-and-rubber pipe was found in his right front pocket. When asked about it, Moon told the deputy “he uses the pipe to smoke weed,” the report says.
Moon also admitted to having a small bag of marijuana in his other pocket. The deputy located a Cigarillo in a package in Moon’s left back pocket that he claimed he “uses to smoke marijuana,” and a small plastic bag containing a green leafy substance in his left cargo pocket, the report says, adding that the contents of the pipe and the plastic bag both tested positive for marijuana.
On the way to the Marion County Jail, Moon asked the deputy about the eye witnesses while stating “no one saw the fight.” He was booked into the facility a short time later and charged with battery (second or subsequent offense), obstructing justice/tampering, possession of marijuana not more than 20 grams and possession of drug equipment.
Moon, who has two prior convictions for domestic battery on Sept. 29, 2017 and Oct. 31, 2002, was being held on $12,000 bond. He is scheduled to appear in a Marion County courtroom on Nov. 20 at 9 a.m. to answer to the charges.
