A Villager’s son was arrested after a battle with his father over medication.
Sumter County sheriff’s deputies were called at 8:50 p.m. Saturday to a home on Carvello Drive in the Village of Santiago, where a 70-year-old man said he had been in “fear for his life” after a physical battle with his 30-year-old son, Parker Jake Arnold, according to an arrest report from the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office.
The Villager said his son is bi-polar and he was “angry” because he wanted additional medication, the report said.
Arnold, who stands 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighs 220 pounds, pushed his father into a corner in the kitchen. Arnold told his father that he would hurt him if he tried to leave. The battle went on for about five minutes.
“It was obvious, by the victim’s demeanor, that he was in fear of the defendant,” the deputy wrote in the arrest report.
Last year, Arnold had been tracked down at his father’s house two days after leaving the scene of a four-vehicle-chain-reaction crash on U.S. 441 near the Wal-Mart store in Summerfield. He was not prosecuted in that case.
He is now facing charges of battery on a person over the age of 65 and false imprisonment. He was booked on $7,000 bond at the Sumter County Detention Center.