An Ocala woman landed behind bars earlier this week after a battle erupted over her daughter being told to do housework.
Marion County sheriff’s deputies were called to a residence on NW 112th Avenue in Ocala on Monday after a man called for help. When they arrived, the man told them that he and 37-year-old Maria De Los Angeles Gomez Mendoza had gotten into a verbal altercation when he told her daughter to clean up her room.
The man said the argument turned nasty when Gomez Mendoza allegedly punched him in the stomach multiple times and said she was going to grab a knife. He said he yelled for the children in the house to put the knives away and then grabbed Gomez Mendoza in an effort to keep her away from the knives, a sheriff’s office report states.
The man said Gomez Mendoza then bit him on his arm about two inches above the inside of his wrist. The man said he left the house after the incident. Deputies noted that the man had multiple “dark purple and greenish spots” on his stomach and chest area, as well as a dark purple-and-bright-green teeth-mark impression on his wrist where he claimed to have been bitten, the report says.
Deputies made contact with Gomez Mendoza, who repeatedly asked why they were there and why the victim had called law enforcement. The deputy told her that the victim had a lot of bruises on his stomach and Gomez Mendoza said it was from working on cars. When the deputy mentioned the bruise and bite marks on his wrist, Gomez Mendoza said he received the injury while “playing around.”
Gomez Mendoza was arrested and transported to the Marion County Jail, where she was charged with domestic battery. She is scheduled to be released on her own recognizance and to appear in Marion County Court on May 17 at 8 a.m. to answer to the charge.