A hair stylist arrested earlier this year at a salon academy in The Villages has been sentenced in a romantic criminal mischief case.
Alexis Renee Saunders, 28, of Ocala, pleaded no contest Tuesday in Sumter County Court to charge of theft and criminal mischief. She has been placed on probation for 18 months.
Her former boyfriend contacted Sumter County sheriff’s deputies to report that he had a photo of the license plate from his vehicle in Saunders’ lap, according to an arrest report. He left his vehicle at his residence over the weekend while he went to the beach with friends. He said he believed Saunders had become enraged when he posted a social media photo of himself with his friends at the beach.
The man said he had blocked Saunders’ phone number “due to her constantly attempting to contact him,” the report said. He said she had “resorted to attempting to contact him with randomly generated numbers.” It was through a random number that she sent him images of herself near his vehicle, which had about $1,000 in damage, the report said. The man identified the woman’s vehicle, also seen in the images, due to its distinctive black fuzzy steering wheel cover. The man said he had previously seen the fuzzy steering wheel cover when he was in Saunders’ vehicle.
Saunders had been arrested in 2018 in Marion County on a charge of criminal mischief. She was ordered to pay $1,900 in restitution to the female victim, ordered to perform 40 hours of community service and placed on probation.
