A 45-year-old Fort Pierce woman is accused of using scissors to cut a man who let her stay at his residence for about four days because of cold temperatures, according to the St. Lucie County arrest affidavit.

Kara L. Lewis, who was staying in the 1000 block of Sunrise Boulevard, was arrested Thursday night and charged with felony aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.

The man and Lewis were drinking Tuesday night when Lewis became intoxicated, according to the affidavit. Lewis became upset when the man told her she didn’t need any more.
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PORT ST. LUCIE — A 28-year-old man accused of driving over his ex-girlfriend’s foot during a weekend child exchange faces a felony aggravated battery charge, according to recently released records.

The victim told police on Saturday she met her ex-boyfriend, Brian Jarrette Haddon, in the parking lot of police headquarters for a child exchange. She has a 19-month-old girl and 5-week-old twin boys with Haddon.

Police records gave this account:
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Matthew Beider

The 56-year-old woman told police that she first used the taser on her 23-year-old son, Matthew A. Beider, after he came after her.

He had been drinking and became belligerent, she said. She said the electronic was her personal taser.

Beider then wrestled the taser away from her, she said, and he tasered her in the her left elbow.

The woman said she then fell to the ground and Beider kicked her four times.

Beider was arrested at his Port St. Lucie home on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, aggravated battery and obstruction of justice.

He is being held at the St. Lucie County jail without bond.

Samuel Jenkins

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.

PORT ST. LUCIE — A 15-year-old teen faces a charge of aggravated battery for shooting a BB gun at his mother’s backside.

The teen’s mother told police she and boy were arguing Wednesday afternoon when he cursed at her. In an effort to discipline him, the mother struck him twice in his arm, she and boy said. Then the boy shot her with the BB gun, he told police.

Neither the teen or his mother requested medical treatment.

Police said they have had to show up at the family’s home on Aires Lane several times in the past because the boy, who is on probation, is unruly and disrespects his family. Earlier that afternoon, the teen punched a flat-screen television during an earlier argument, the mother said.

The boy was arrested on a second-degree felony charge.

William Luciano

Witnesses told St. Lucie County Sheriff’s deputies that William L. Luciano ran out of his home on Hidalgo Lane, chasing a man with a sword. He later went back inside and returned with another knife, the witnesses said.

Luciano slashed the man in his left arm, the witnesses said.

When investigators arrived at the scene, Luciano said he was trying to protect his roommate, Patricia D. Best, from the man.
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HOBE SOUND — A man was arrested on an aggravated battery charge after he allegedly dragged his mother from his car, cursed her and left her bleeding on the side of the road.

Shortly before 6 p.m. on Monday, a Martin County Sheriff’s deputy found the 68-year-old woman by U.S. 1 and Seabranch Avenue, her arms bloody, according to a sheriff’s report.

The woman reported she was in the car with her 48-year-old son, Dennis A. Baum, when she told him he was too intoxicated to drive. The son got angry, slammed on the brakes, she said, and yanked her out of the vehicle.

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FORT PIERCE - A 26-year-old Fort Pierce man has been charged with two counts of aggravated battery for choking a pregnant woman, according to a Fort Pierce Police Department arrest report.

Michael Sams

About 7:20 p.m. Thursday, Fort Pierce Police officers charged Michael Sams, of the 4400 block of Timber Ridge Lane, after he allegedly choked the woman, report states.

The woman told police she and Sams were arguing when he threw her on the bed, jumped on top of her and placed both hands around her neck, choking her. Next, Sams allegedly grabbed a pillow and placed it over her face to muffle her screams. The woman said she continued struggling with Sams and kicked him in the groin, which allowed her to get away. Officers said the woman had large patches of bruising on her neck, fingerprints on her right forearm and fingernail marks on the woman’s neck.

As of Saturday, Sams, whom police said was recently released from prison for second degree murder, is in St. Lucie County Jail in lieu of $100,000 bail.

Staff report, TCPalm.com

FORT PIERCE — An 11-year-old boy accused of hitting his mother in the head with a saw before offering her $5 not to call police is facing an aggravated battery charge, according to a St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office report released Thursday.

The altercation happened Wednesday morning in the 1700 block of Wyoming Avenue after the boy and his 41-year-old mother argued as she tried to get him to take his medication. Following the argument, the boy bicycled to the Wyoming Avenue address, where he apparently started hitting a tree with a saw.

The mother followed him but he still wouldn’t take the medicine. He raised the saw and hit his mother, who had a minor laceration, on top of her head.

“When he saw the blood coming from her head he threw down the saw and started to plead with the victim to not call the police,” the report states.

He reportedly offered a $5 bill to his mother if she didn’t notify authorities. (more…)