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.

Juan Gaspar-Montijo

While out on patrol just before 3 a.m. on Sunday, a Martin County Sheriff’s deputy found Juan Gaspar-Montijo, 21, talking on his cell phone with a distraught look on his face.

When the deputy asked if he needed help, Gaspar-Montijo didn’t respond, according to a sheriff’s report.

The deputy called 911 and a dispatcher told him Gaspar-Montijo was looking for a ride from the 14700 block of Southwest Martin Luther King Boulevard to his home in the 16500 block of Southwest Indian Mound Drive — about three miles away.

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