Posts Tagged ‘assault’
Monday, February 1st, 2010 by TCPalm.com
FORT PIERCE — A 30-year-old Fort Pierce man is accused of attacking a relative with a knife because the relative had turned off the TV, according to a St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office arrest affidavit.
Fransisco Yanez-Mejia, of the 1700 block of Boston Avenue, was arrested at about 1:30 a.m. Saturday and charged with felony aggravated assault with intent to commit a felony.
Yanez-Mejia said he got upset when his relative turned off the TV, according to the affidavit. His relative said Yanez-Mejia grabbed a knife, chased him around the house and threatened to kill him.
After using a small trash can to block the knife, the relative ran into a bathroom and called 911. Yanez-Mejia said he had a knife to cut lemons and had no intentions to hurt anyone, according to the affidavit.
Yanez-Mejia remained in the county jail Sunday with a $5,000 bail. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement also had been called.
Tags: arrest, assault, Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, St. Lucie County Florida
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Thursday, January 21st, 2010 by TCPalm.com
MARTIN COUNTY — A South Fork High School resource deputy used a stun gun on an unruly student Tuesday, according to an arrest affidavit.
Markee Deshawn Felton, 18, of the 8400 block of Southeast Comus Street, Hobe Sound, was charged with resisting arrest with violence and disruption of a school function. He was being held at the Martin County Jail in lieu of $2,750 bail. (more…)
Tags: arrest, assault, South Fork High School, student, stun gun
Posted in Crime, Martin County, Schools | No Comments »
Thursday, December 10th, 2009 by TCPalm.com
PORT ST. LUCIE — A woman faces charges after she drove through a sheriff’s barrier at St. Lucie West K-8 School Tuesday and nearly ran over a deputy’s feet before closing her van’s door on his foot, according to an arrest affidavit released Wednesday.

Christina A. Lydon
Christina A. Lydon, 47, also refused to stop when Deputy Paul McNesky tried to flag her down and wouldn’t lower her window, the affidavit stated. Lydon, of the 6100 block of Northwest East Deville Circle in Port St. Lucie, was arrested on single felony and misdemeanor charges following the 9:20 a.m. Tuesday encounter.
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Posted in Crime, Port St. Lucie | 8 Comments »
Monday, August 17th, 2009 by TCPalm.com
FORT PIERCE — After Julia Rolon-Estrada died of a gunshot wound to the artery in her leg on July 26, 2006, she was wrapped in a blue tarp and again in a green blanket before being buried in the yard of her Port St. Lucie home, near a rear sliding glass door.
A dog trained to find cadavers helped authorities locate the newly tilled grave, which was covered with a wooden pallet holding 20 mulch bags stacked on top.
Rolon-Estrada’s jailed husband, 43-year-old Albert Estrada, state prosecutors say, is the man guilty of killing his wife and high-school sweatheart, who had walked out on him the night before she died at age 39.
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Posted in Courts, Crime | 6 Comments »
Friday, August 14th, 2009 by TCPalm.com
ST. LUCIE COUNTY — A 48-year-old man accused of hitting another man with a samurai sword before bringing a second edged weapon into a Thursday night confrontation faces a felony charge, according to an arrest affidavit released Friday.
A woman told St. Lucie County Sheriff’s investigators that she and her ex-husband were dropping off her 62-year-old mother at her home in
the 13900 block of Encantado Circle north of Indrio Road when the mother’s boyfriend exited the residence with a samurai sword. (more…)
Tags: arrest, assault, deputies, knife, mother, sword
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Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 by TCPalm.com
FORT PIERCE — About 6 p.m. Tuesday, the U.S. Marshall Fugitive Task Force arrested David Jerome Brown, 48, of the 500 block of North 27th Street in connection with a Monday night attack on a woman and shooting of her son.
Brown was apprehended at the corner of North 27th Street and Avenue G without incident, said Fort Pierce Detective Ben Thayer.
The male victim was shot in the genitals and his mother pistol whipped Monday night in a suspected domestic-related incident before the attacker fled in a pickup truck, according to a police report released Tuesday and a sergeant.
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Friday, July 31st, 2009 by TCPalm.com
FORT PIERCE — Police arrested a 47-year-old man after he allegedly snatched an 11-year-old boy’s basketball and football and chased the boy and his sister with a shovel, according to recently released records.
Roger H. Willis reportedly has been dating the grandmother of the 11-year-old boy and his 21-year-old sister, the sister told police Wednesday.
The siblings were visiting the grandmother’s house and the 11-year-old boy played outside with the football and basketball, the sister said. (more…)
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 by TCPalm.com
FORT PIERCE — A 14-year-old boy who police say fled from officers, brandished a gun and barricaded himself inside a home Monday afternoon surrendered after a few hours, officials said.
Patrick Casimir of 1105 North 29th Street was arrested just before 5 p.m. after he walked out of the house in the 3000 block of Avenue L with his hands raised, according to Sgt. Dennis McWilliams. No one was injured, and no shots were fired.
Casimir was charged with aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, armed burglary and two counts of resisting arrest without violence, officials said.
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Posted in Crime, Fort Pierce | 1 Comment »
Thursday, June 25th, 2009 by TCPalm.com
STUART — An affidavit released by sheriff’s deputies accuses a man of a brutish attack Tuesday on an 11-year-old boy.
William Raymond Dion, 18, of the 5800 block of Southeast Avalon Drive, has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and battery.
According to the affidavit, the boy was riding his bicycle near the intersection of Southeast Dixie Ross Street and Southeast Robert Loop Road at 6:40 p.m. when Dion hit him in the hip and the face with a chunk of cement.
He then pushed the boy off his bicycle as the boy attempted to get away, the affidavit says.
The boy’s face was extremely swollen when deputies arrived. His parents took him to an unspecified hospital for treatment.
Dion was being held Wednesday in the Martin County Jail in lieu of $10,500 bond.
By staff report, TCPalm.com
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009 by TCPalm.com
STUART — A Martin County grand jury on Wednesday returned first-degree murder and robbery indictments against two Stuart residents accused in the April 5 beating death of Keith A. Hall, who died three days after being attacked.
Charged are James Louis LaForteza, 29, and Kobi Anderson, 15, who authorities say beat Hall into unconsciousness to steal $40 he’d shown the man and teen in an attempt to buy drugs. (more…)
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