An Ocklawaha man angry over the way a vegetable was cooked found himself behind bars Wednesday after a Marion County sheriff’s detective saw him forcibly grab a woman and shove her.
The victim told sheriff’s deputies that 54-year-old James Vernon Stroud became angry when she didn’t cook corn the way he wanted it. She claimed that he picked her up by her shoulders, put her on a couch, put his knees in her chest and then started to strangle her, a sheriff’s office report states.
The woman said she blacked out and doesn’t remember what happened next. She claimed Stroud also punched her in the face. And she said, “He’s going to kill me” and “I know I’m going to die” several times while speaking with deputies, the report says, adding that deputies noted the right side of her cheek and jaw appeared to be bruised.
Stroud, who also was arrested in June 2010 for simple domestic battery, claimed the woman punched him in the face. And he denied pushing her, the report says.
Stroud was taken into custody and transported to the Marion County Jail, where he was charged with domestic battery by strangulation. He was being held on $5,000 bond and is due in court Sept. 3 at 9 a.m.