An Ocala man who was upset over another man being in his home was arrested Sunday after a violent choking altercation left a scratched and battered woman fearing for her life.
When a Marion County sheriff’s deputy arrived at the home on SW 14th Street, 60-year-old Randy Ray Isaacs, who was standing on his front porch, asked him why he was there. Isaacs said he and a woman in the house “only had a short argument” because she had allowed another man in his house, “which he does not allow.”
The deputy then spoke with the woman, who said that she had asked a friend to call law enforcement for help because Isaacs had come home and “pushed her up against a cabinet” and “placed both of his hands around her neck and choked her,” a sheriff’s office report states.
The woman told the deputy that Isaacs was “crushing her throat with his fingers and almost lifted her off the ground.” And she added that she thought he “was trying to kill her,” the report says.
The woman said that at one point she “started to lose her vision and almost blacked out.” And she said she was holding a two-year-old child in her arms throughout the entire physical altercation while another child witnessed the incident, the report says.
The deputy noted numerous scratches and abrasions on the woman’s left elbow and right forearm and elbow. She said those injuries were the result of being “slammed against the cabinet” in the kitchen, the report says.
Isaacs told the deputy that he pushed the woman away from him during the altercation because “she was screaming at him and getting in his face.” When asked if he had ever put his hands around the woman’s throat, Isaacs admitted to placing them near her chest and neck area “but only to keep her away,” the report says.
Isaacs was taken into custody and transported to the Marion County Jail, where he was charged with domestic battery by strangulation and domestic battery. He was being held without bond.
Isaacs is no stranger to the Marion County legal system. His court records include:
- July 23, 2002: Found guilty of driving with a suspended or revoked license, attaching an unassigned license tag to a vehicle and having no registration.
- Feb. 11, 2004: Plead guilty/no contest to charges of driving with a suspended or revoked license and obstruction by a disguised person.
- May 21, 2004: Plead guilty to a charge of driving more than 30 mph over the speed limit.
- June 29, 2009: Plead guilty to a charge of failing to wear a seatbelt.
- Nov. 14, 2011: Found guilty of reckless driving involving alcohol
- Sept. 1, 2011: Charge dismissed for failing to drive in a single lane.