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Friday, March 29, 2024

Belleview woman jailed again for domestic battery

Jennifer Sue Coates

A 44-year-old Belleview woman with a pair of prior domestic battery arrests and a conviction is in the Marion County Jail after she allegedly beat up a man because he was talking to his mother on the phone.

The victim told a Marion County sheriff’s deputy he was on the living room couch, on the phone with his mother, when Jennifer Sue Coates approached him and started arguing with him. He said Coates doesn’t have a good relationship with his mother and was upset he was on the phone with her, according to the sheriff’s office report.

The victim said Coates started punching him in the face with a closed fist and scratching his face. He said he tried to get away from her and told her he was going calling the cops. The victim said Coates took the phone from him, but he didn’t recall at what point. He said Coates told him she was going to hit herself to get him in trouble, the report said.

The victim said he walked to a neighbor’s house and called law-enforcement. The deputy observed his nose was severely crooked towards the left side of his face and was bloody. The victim also had blood on the left side of his head next to his ear, as well as scratches under his right eye and under the left side of his bottom lip, according to the report.

Medics responded to the scene and said the victim’s nose appeared to be broken. They advised him to get checked out by a doctor at the hospital, the report said.

Coates told the deputy she was on the couch in the living room while the victim was on the phone with his mother. She said when the victim hung up, she said something about his mother that he didn’t like, and he hit her in the forehead with his phone, according to the report.

Coates said the victim was on top of her and she started hitting him with her phone in self-defense. The deputy observed a small scratch on Coates’ forehead, the report said.

A criminal history check shows Coates with domestic battery arrests in December 2017 and October 2019, and a conviction in Marion County Court in 2019. She’s being held on $1,000 bond and scheduled to appear in court on June 2.