Man accused of beaing Port St. Lucie woman with baseball bat
June 22nd, 2009 by Ana X. Ceron
Samuel Jenkins
PORT ST. LUCIE — A North Carolina man was arrested on an aggravated battery charge for beating up his sister with a baseball bat, police said.
On Friday night police received an anonymous call that a man was swinging a bat at a woman on Lennard Road. When officers arrived, they couldn’t find either person.
The next day, police were called to St. Lucie Medical Center, where a 22-year-old woman told investigators her younger brother, Samuel Jenkins, had hit her with a bat the night before.
The woman reported she and her brother were at a home in the 1600 block of Lennard when she blamed Jenkins, 19, for breaking her cell phone. Jenkins became upset, she said, retrieved the bat and struck her several times. He later left with other relatives, she said.
According to doctors, the woman suffered no broken bones and was discharged from the hospital the same day she came in.
Jenkins was arrested Saturday and on Monday afternoon was being held in the St. Lucie County jail in lieu of $25,000 bail.
Tags: aggravated battery, baseball bat, brother, cell phone, North Caroline, Port St. Lucie police, Samuel Jenkins, siblings, sister, St. Lucie Medical Center
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June 22nd, 2009 at 4:10 pm
another useful productive american citizen
June 29th, 2009 at 7:35 am
Oh, come on now. He am misunderstood. He was just practicing for the upcomming baseball tryouts.