On March 14th, 2024, the Lee County Sheriff's Office was called to the scene at Outback Steakhouse for reports of a potential assault and battery. The following shows the body-worn camera footage of what happened during the incident. Hello. Where are they at? So, the the car Oh, in the trailer? Yeah, in between the trailer and the van. Okay. That's That's like a little Toyota Corolla. I don't know. They I mean, like I said, they weren't Besides being loud and obnoxious, and a tenant from another unit stopped at my office to let me know that there was a little cray-cray going on and They were just being loud. kept screaming, "I don't know what the [ __ ] your problem is." And like I said, at one point the guy shirt He had one arm in and one arm wasn't in, and then there was a dog, and the dog was running around a little bit, but they got the dog in, and then now another guy just showed up, and he put his arm around the girl and made the other guy get in the backseat. So, I I don't know what's going on, but I just Sure, we'll check it out. Just check it out for me, please. All righty. Okay. Okay, you want to come out and talk to us? Good. Relax. Come here. I'm talking to him. You got any weapons on you? We were just Anything else? No, that's it, sir. What's going on, man? Nothing much. It's just that guy in the trailer. What does an argument mean for you? No, we were just arguing. Like, we didn't do anything crazy. Yeah. ripped my shirt. Your back says otherwise. Your back and your neck is destroyed. When she ripped my shirt, I tripped on my shoes. Who is she Who is she to you? My wife. Your wife. How long you guys been together? Three months. Three months and in those three months I trusted her. Today I found out she had Like I was like asking to go through her pictures and she finally showed me. And then when I see something, I'm like, "What's that?" She had a ziploc baggie with pills in them. She keeps saying it's plan B, but if it was plan B, it would come in a little container that says plan B. Okay. a sketchy ziploc bag. And she has other nudes on her phone. So then I'm just like, "You know what? I'mma go back to work." And she pulled my shirt. Why do you have so many scratch marks on on your back? Here, stand up. I'll take a picture and show you. Like you're like bleeding everywhere, dude. I don't know. It's blood. Not crazy crazy, you know, like coming out coming out, but look. All that, man. That's blood from getting smeared. And you got blood on your hand, too. Oop. Was it physical with Like did Did you try to defend yourself at all or hit her or anything like that? I'm just trying to get away from this situation. I'm trying to get away. I would just leave my life cuz she's lied so much. Okay. Do you She currently has my keys to my house right now. Do you guys live to You live together or no? Yeah. Okay. So what happened? What happened? What's that? It's going to be an Acura versus another vehicle with airbags deployed. What's that? 4096 It's all right. Just take a deep breath. All right. So, just tell me what happened. He wanted to check my phone. And then I told him to don't And then he was calling He called me mad at me because I got some pictures of relax. And then he started calling me cheater because of that. And then That what happened, but I I don't want him to have problems. Okay. All right. Did did Did anybody hit each other? Um When he was trying to run away with my phone, I just pulled him by the t-shirt because he break it. Okay. And then Okay. No No punching. No kicking. No. No. No. My phone is here. Did you see anything? No. I'm his father. I'm not his father. Yeah. She's like a daughter. I question And just came like wanted to calm down, but uh you guys came. Yeah. I'm Okay. Okay. Do you know anything about the laws in Florida? Um for domestic violence? No, sir. Okay. You tell my partner that you got you guys got or you got physical with your other half because of the phone and stuff like that. Yes, sir. Okay. All right. What happened to your phone? He tried to take it from me, and then I told him to don't take it from me. Mhm. No. It's not my fault, sir. Come on. Put your hands behind your back. You have my right. I know. I know. I know. I know. Why you taking me, sir? Uh for DV battery. What is the and he? Uh because you scratched him. Well, he bite my hand, sir. Okay. We're We're listening. gave me a black eye last week. Okay, we're listening. You're being detained for the investigation, but we're listening to what you have to say, okay? We have probable cause for domestic violence, so you're being detained, okay? Your phone number? Yeah. Okay. So, you're going to take your phone with you into the jail, okay? But it's broke. What's that? What is he saying to me? Did you witness any of it? Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. I mean, he's working to fill you in, but the stories were consistent and shows her as a primary aggressor. So, in the state of Florida, we have a duty to act, but we're still gathering the stories. Yeah, what I understand, to be very frankly, they are newly understand they have, you know, trust issues with each other. Newly married, it's not like they know them from long, long time. It's like 4, 5, 6 months ago, and they just married. I have no idea why the hell he did it. You need to involve the families, because it's not like kids. When the kids don't involve the family, of course these kind of thing happen. I don't think so. I met with her the first time, and I don't think so she's a bad girl. No, I feel bad right now. She's in the basically the car. It is anyway. It's It's all basically like you guys think so. or she is arrested. Anything that's domestic violence related, especially when there's visible injuries, we have no choice. There there's there is no wiggle and there's no wiggle room for that. No discretion. Is it because of me or because of her? You have visible injuries on you. It's cuz of both of your both of your statements. do anything. He did not touch anything, I think. You can see our face and those things. my shirt. So why is So let me ask you, why is there blood underneath her fingernails? Because I don't understand so this is a small Uh to be very friendly, I can justify you as well. My pants are pretty bad. In her car, I have a glass bottle broken, right? Maybe she was like, you know, angry person they messed up. I I don't know I never saw it. But I first thing I asked, did you guys So what you said before No, like I even told you I tripped. I heard that, but that's not what you said That's not what you were saying. She has visible blood under fingernails. You have scratch marks on the back of your neck. It's not from a bottle. It's from her fingernails digging into you. And you said you were trying to get away which consistent with it being on your back and not on the front of you. What is it? It's going to be up to you whether if you want to go forward She's going to go to jail for the day at least. It's if way we can If you choose not to press charges not to show up, then then it's going to get dropped and it's done. Can we just forget about all this and just move No, when it's DV there there is no forgetting about it. What happened with the phone? Why is this phone smashed? Tell me the story about she has mentioned that you tried to grab the phone. What's this I saw the picture of the sketchy toes on the floor. So then how did they end up getting Why is it smashed? Yeah. And the screen's screen protector's on the ground. I'm assuming belongs to that. Maybe the lanyard. Did you take it and you got mad and you threw it down? I don't understand what you're saying. All I know I was trying to get back to you. You know, when you're aggressive you do so many things and Let's go talk over there because you didn't witness it and he's trying to influence my investigation. It's okay. She's claiming that you're the primary aggressor in this and that she's innocent. I was at work. She came to see me to have lunch with her. Uh-huh. That's it. She left. Do you guys have prior domestic incidences? Cuz she's claiming she's gotten punched in the eye before. I don't know when that was, if it was recent. Okay. So, how do you explain the phone getting smashed? Huh? I have no explanation for it. So, you How did it happen? You were here? I don't know, sir. Like I'm the one that's like got marks on my back. I didn't even know it was You got marks on your back, but you just You just No, no, no, no. You just you You got marks on your back. Yeah. I'm asking you about the phone and you're saying it's from that. I'm telling you it's from her and now you're saying it's from her. No, you said you're saying it's 100%. Okay, so then I can't argue with you. But I don't understand about All suspects are innocent until proven guilty. Thank you for watching.