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.

Matthew Beider

The mother, 56, told police her son, Matthew Beider, had asked her to pick her up from a bar.

When they got to their home on Southwest Pisces Terrace, the woman said Beider was angry because he didn’t have money to purchase drugs.

He became agitated and threatened to kill her as he fiddled with a pocketknife, the woman said. At one point he also pinned both her arms behind her back, she said.
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