A woman was arrested last week after she called Marion County deputies following a late-night altercation that left a man with a bloody lip and a ripped shirt.
Courtney Marie Taylor, 27, told deputies that an argument last Tuesday night turned physical when a man grabbed her by the neck, threw her out of a house located at SE 174th Court in Silver Springs and held her down by her neck after she’d fallen to the ground.
Taylor, who works for RealTruck.com, said she held the man by his shirt and hit him so he’d let her go, a sheriff’s office report states, adding that she said she was dragged across the house by her neck.
The deputy noted in his report that while he observed a faint red mark on Taylor’s neck, “it did not appear to be consistent with being dragged across the house and grabbed a second time by the neck.”
But the man Taylor claimed attacked her told a different story, as did the man’s son and brother. All three said the argument turned physical when Taylor slapped the man on the right side of his face with her left hand and then grabbed him by the shirt. And each one said that the man pushed her off of him and went outside to get away from the altercation.
Taylor was taken into custody and booked into the Marion County jail at 1 a.m. this past Wednesday morning. She was released on $1,000 bond the following morning at 12:27 a.m. and is due to appear in a Marion County courtroom Aug. 30 at 8 a.m.
