A Villager’s adult daughter served jail time after a battle over trash earlier this year in the Village of Charlotte.
Amanda Elizabeth Norton, 38, of Arlington, Va., was released Sunday morning after serving five days in the Sumter County Detention Center.
She had been arrested on a charge of battery on May 1 following a battle with a neighbor of her father on April 30 on Nestlebranch Avenue.
The neighbor had put out three bags of recyclables and three bags of trash and stepped out about 30 minutes later and found that four bags of trash had been added to the pile, according to an arrest report from the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office. The Villager was attaching a note to the trash “apologizing” to the garbage collection crew for the extra bags, when “a 30 something year old female” and a male came out of 3421 Nestlebranch Ave. and began “taunting” the Villager.
The Villager asked the woman, later determined to be Norton, if she was the daughter of the homeowner at 3421 Nestlebranch Ave. Norton responded “sarcastically” that she was the man’s “adopted” daughter, the report said.
“With a nasty attitude like that you should have been aborted,” the Villager reportedly told Norton.
As the Villager was walking away, Norton pushed her to the ground. A neighbor who witnessed the altercation, verified the Villager’s version of events.
Norton was taken into custody hours later at a home in the 9400 block of Nestlebranch Avenue.
This past Thursday in Sumter County Court, Norton entered a plea of no contest in the case. She was ordered to serve five days in jail and has been placed on one year’s probation.
