PORT ST. LUCIE — A 20-year-old Port St. Lucie man has been arrested for allegedly pouring peroxide in the face of his pregnant girlfriend.

Port St. Lucie police reported they received a call from Joshua K. Perry’s girlfriend at 8:48 p.m. Saturday.

The woman, three months pregnant, claimed that she told Perry not to leave the Rio Mar Drive house they have shared for four months. According to police records, Perry responded by grabbing the woman by the hair and throwing her onto the couch.
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STUART — A student was charged with battery last week after he was accused of attacking his teacher when she woke him up, according to an affidavit released Wednesday.

The incident occurred the morning of May 12, when the 14-year-old jumped up and began flailing his arms as the teacher roused him to leave the class at Challenger School, the affidavit says. He then kicked her in the left knee and punched her right forearm.

The boy was charged with battery on a school employee and suspended from school, according to the affidavit.

By staff report, TCPalm.com

FORT PIERCE — A 51-year-old associate pastor accused of backing his car up at a school into a sheriff’s deputy is facing charges, according to recently released records.

St. Lucie County sheriff’s investigators arrested Ronald J. Reeves on May 14 on felony charges including aggravated battery on an officer and resisting an officer with violence, and a misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct following the events at Dale Cassens School.

Reeves reportedly arrived with an 11th-grade student and his grandmother. Reeves said he’s a mentor for the student and is an associate pastor at Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church.
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FORT PIERCE — A local man accused of choking a 2-year-old boy for about 10 seconds Wednesday after the boy hit him is facing felony charges, according to an arrest affidavit released Thursday.

The child’s mother told St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office investigators that she was quarreling with her father about 9:30 p.m. when her brother, 28-year-old Carey L. Bailey, got involved.

The child allegedly got upset because Bailey, of the 2600 block of North U.S. 1, was shouting at the child’s mother. (more…)

JENSEN BEACH — Detectives arrested a woman accused of attacking and robbing an elderly woman outside a Jensen Beach restaurant Saturday afternoon, according to documents released Monday.

Kristen Beth Swift, 23, of the 2300 block of Northeast Indian River Drive, has been charged with robbery by sudden snatching and battery on a person over 65 years of age.

The incident took place in the 3400 block of Northwest U.S. 1 at 2:40 p.m., just after the 82-year-old woman had parked her car in a handicap space at Olive Garden. Swift pulled up behind the woman’s car and asked her for directions to Indian River Drive, the affidavit says.
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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…)

Tetyana Meyer

The 53-year-old man told police his wife, Tetyana Meyer, 32, had pinched him in his left arm during an argument that afternoon. The man said the pinch left a mark and he wanted to press charges against his wife. He declined medical treatment.

Meyer denied pinching her husband, according to a police report. But the couple’s 4-year-old son told officers he saw his parents yelling at each other and his mother pinch his father.

Meyer was arrested on a domestic battery charge. She was being held in St. Lucie County jail Thursday morning without bond.

ST. LUCIE COUNTY — A 28-year-old Fort Pierce man was taken into custody Wednesday after a 15-year-old girl exposed an affair she had been having with him, according to a St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office report.

Reynaldo N. Moran, aka Moran Maldonado, of the 2600 block of North U.S. 1 was charged with sexual battery on a child more than 12 years old and was being held at the St. Lucie County Jail in lieu of $500,250 bail.

Moran allegedly began the affair with the girl when he stayed with the family, the arrest affidavit said. The teenager told a detective she has had sex with Moran last November. Her mother had suspicions about a relationship between the pair and confronted them Wednesday when she saw Moran driving the girl to her school, the report said.

At the school, a school resource officer also charged Moran with driving without a driver’s license.

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FORT PIERCE — A city police officer was sentenced Thursday to 30 years in prison for molesting a 15-year-old girl in a Hutchinson Island beach parking lot.

Chief Assistant State Attorney Tom Bakkedahl asked Circuit Judge Larry Schack to sentence Dwight Toombs, 34, to 35 years in prison after Toombs was convicted Jan. 22 on four felony charges stemming from the Dec. 18, 2007 incident.

Friends and family asked Schack for leniency after describing Toombs as a family man and a Christian.

Defense attorney Jack Fleischman said he plans to file an appeal.

“We expected a high sentence, and we feel pretty confident about the appeal,” he said.

Before sentencing Toombs, who did not speak on his own behalf, Schack said: “This is really a very sad day on two levels. One because of what was done to that young lady and two, because it was done by someone we all rely on to protect our children.”

Toombs was sentenced after being convicted of lewd or lascivious battery or molestation, attempted lewd or lascivious battery, sexual battery on a 15-year-old by a government agent and lewd or lascivious conduct. Schack also declared him a sexual predator.

Toombs faced a maximum sentence of 65 years in prison.

Authorities said Toombs came across the girl, who was naked from the waist down, and her 20-year old boyfriend in a parked car at the beach and that Toombs fondled the girl using a glove while she was handcuffed.

Bakkedahl said law enforcement agents must be held to a higher standard because of their status within the community and added officers committing crimes undermines the judicial system. (more…)

PORT ST. LUCIE — A 44-year-old man accused of hitting his wife Wednesday morning after she admitted being out with another woman with whom she’s having an affair is facing a battery charge, a police report states.

The 37-year-old victim told investigators she got home about 12:30 a.m. and went to take a shower when her husband, Alex Adorno, came to the bathroom.

Adorno, of the 1200 block of Southeast McFarlane Avenue, ”asked her if she had been out with the girl she has been having an affair with and she said yes,” the report states.

He allegedly got mad and choked her. He also allegedly turned the water off, hit her in the head and threw the bottles in the shower on her.

The victim said it’s the second time Adorno struck her. She said she didn’t call police the first time ”because she is the one having the affair,” the report states.

Adorno said his wife has been having an affair with another woman for about three months and he doesn’t know what to do. He said he ”lost it” after she returned home and admitted being out with her girlfriend.

The wife didn’t want to press charges, but Adorno went to jail on a battery charge.

By Will Greenlee, TCPalm.com