A Summerfield landscaper was arrested Wednesday after a violent altercation over a car.
When a Marion County sheriff’s deputy arrived at the residence on S U.S. 301, a woman told him via another deputy translating on a cell phone that 30-year-old Celedonio Plancarte-Perez had come to her house arguing about a car. The woman said she believed Plancarte-Perez was intoxicated and that she had tried to go back inside her residence before he grabbed her right hand and pulled her back outside, a sheriff’s office report states, adding that the deputy took note of two small cuts on the woman’s right hand.
A witness who spoken broken English confirmed the woman’s story and demonstrated to the deputy how Plancarte-Perez had grabbed her hand, the report says.
Eventually, Plancarte-Perez came back to the residence and told the deputy through his niece that he came to the house to pick up a car and sell it. When asked about the altercation with the woman, Plancarte-Perez said she had “called law enforcement on him in the past” and he couldn’t explain how she sustained the injury to her hand, the report says.
A short time later, another deputy responded to serve as a translator. Plancarte-Perez told him that he and the woman argued and then he left. And he again said he didn’t know how the woman sustained the injury to her hand, the report says.
Deputies noted that Plancarte-Perez “did appear to be intoxicated, having bloodshot eyes and emitting an odor of an alcoholic beverage from his breath.” He was taken into custody, transported to the Marion County Jail, charged with battery and held on no bond.
