PORT ST. LUCIE — Police arrested a man after they say he pointed a gun at another man and punched him “a few times” in the head, according to an affidavit released Monday.
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The victim went to drop off his two children Sunday at his ex-wife’s home in the 400 block of Southwest Paar Drive, authorities said.

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FORT PIERCE — A 22-year-old man accused of forcing a teen girl to perform a sex act on him before raping her at his mother’s home faces felony charges, according to an arrest affidavit released Monday.

The 16-year-old girl told police Sunday she met Timothy E. Mitz, of the 2800 block of Avenue H, about three to four weeks ago and engaged in “semi-consensual” sexual activities during that time.

She told investigators she was at Mitz’s mother’s residence on the 700 block of South 29th Street and went to sleep about 3 a.m. Sunday.
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PORT ST. LUCIE — It was an “all night” argument over infidelity — complete with a purported audio tape of the “cheating” — that culminated with a woman stabbing her boyfriend of several years, according to a recently released arrest affidavit and police.

Police said they met the victim Thursday morning at St. Lucie Medical Center, where his girlfriend, Jennece Cordella Shaw, drove him after the incident. (more…)

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…)

FORT PIERCE A 74-year-old man accused of beating another man with a wooden sword last month at a business was arrested Wednesday, according to records released Thursday.

The victim told St. Lucie County Sheriff’s investigators he went to Jose Pinera’s business behind Fred’s Grocery on June 23 to deliver some auto parts to Pinera, 74, who was there with two other men.

The victim said he saw a wooden sword and picked it up. The sword, he said, was hand carved and he was admiring the workmanship.

That’s when Pinera, of the 2300 block of Southeast Marseille Street in Port St. Lucie, reportedly got very upset and asked what the victim was doing with the sword.

Pinera snatched the sword from the victim and hit him with it in the left shoulder, police said.

An investigator noted a large yellow-and-purple bruise on the victim’s left shoulder six days later when the investigator spoke to him. The victim said he hadn’t seen a doctor because he couldn’t afford it.

The victim said he didn’t know why Pinera would hit him.

Pinera left after the victim said he was calling authorities, but was arrested Wednesday night on a battery charge at his home.

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PORT ST. LUCIE — A man found naked in the room of a 12-year-old girl with whom he communicated on MySpace and discussed having sex faces two felony charges, according to recently released arrest and court records.

The victim told police she spent most of a day in late June communicating with a man identified as Barrington Benjimen Smith Jr., 18, of the 500 block of Northwest Avon Avenue in Port St. Lucie.

They arranged to meet, she told police. The victim opened her bedroom window and let Smith in about 12:30 a.m. June 25, records state.
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JENSEN BEACH — A man was charged Saturday evening with domestic battery after he drenched his wife with a garden hose and attacked her, according to an affidavit released Monday.

The altercation began when the victim entered the couple’s residence in the 1400 block of Northeast Chardon Street, while smoking a cigarette.

The affidavit says the victim’s husband, John Jeffrey Murray, 51, began yelling at her about smoking in the house and sprayed her with the hose.
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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.

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STUART — Two girls were charged with aggravated battery Friday after they attacked a woman who was attempting to break up a fight between her son and another man, according to an affidavit released Monday.

The girls, ages 15 and 16, were at a party with the two men and rode with them to the woman’s house in the 4300 block of Southeast Chesapeake Bay Drive around 3:30 a.m.

The report says the two men began fighting as they arrived at the residence, and the woman came outside to try and break up the fight.
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JENSEN BEACH — Martin County sheriff’s deputies arrested a 47-year-old man after he attacked a bartender Wednesday at Harper’s Pub because he thought he spiked his drink, according to a report.

Deputies arrested Matthew Way, of the 2100 block of Northeast Poinciana Lane, after he confronted the bartender, according to the report.

The report gave this account:

The bartender was trying to walk by Way while trying to get supplies out of a side closet. Way accused the bartender of spiking his drink a few weeks ago.

As the bartender tried walking away, Way punched him and they both got entangled in a fight on the floor. The bartender got on top of Way and waited for deputies to arrive.

Deputies charged Way with battery and disorderly conduct and transported him to Martin County Jail.
By TCPalm Staff