An Ocala woman charged with battering three people, including one over the age of 65, in an angry rampage had a resisting charge added after she struggled with deputies placing her under arrest.
Rebecca Tirado, 49, was charged with two counts of simple battery and single counts of battery on a person 65 years of age or older and resisting an officer without violence.
Marion County sheriff’s deputies responded to a verbal incident at the incident location Sunday night and left without making an arrest. They were called back about an hour later and encountered Tirado, who was standing outside the front door of the residence. She said she had gone outside and was locked out, according to the sheriff’s office report.
The deputies went inside and interviewed the victims and witnesses. The first victim said after deputies left earlier in the evening, Tirado became verbally aggressive towards everybody in the living room area. She said Tirado kept asking who called law enforcement, and the first victim said she did. She said Tirado grabbed a set of keys and threw them at her, striking her on her left shoulder area, the report said.
The first victim said Tirado came towards her aggressively and the second victim stepped in and tried to separate Tirado from everyone. She said she saw Tirado grab one of the second victim’s fingers and bend it backwards. The second victim is over 65 years old, according to the report.
The third victim told the deputy Tirado was acting belligerent in the living room area. She said she saw Tirado throw a set of keys at the first victim and believed the keys struck the victim in the face. The third victim said Tirado advanced towards the first victim aggressively while the second victim yelled for her to stop throwing things. The third victim said at that point, Tirado approached the second victim, grabbed her by her fingers and bent them back, the report said.
The third victim said she tried to intervene to stop Tirado from breaking the second victim’s fingers. She said Tirado then redirected towards her and started striking her with a closed fist on the back of her head. The third victim said Tirado eventually left the living room and went outside, according to the report.
The second victim said Tirado was acting belligerent, grabbed a set of keys and threw them at the first victim. She said Tirado started advancing towards her and grabbed her by the left index finger and pushed it backwards, causing it to hurt. She said the third victim tried to separate Tirado from everybody and Tirado struck her several times on her head with a closed fist. The second victim said Tirado eventually left the living room and went outside, the report said.
A witness said he was present when the incident occurred, but it was like a “blur” to him and he had difficulty recalling the exact sequence of events. He said he observed the verbal altercation, and at one point he saw Tirado grab the second victim by her fingers and pull them back. He said he also saw Tirado and the third victim striking each other with their fists, but he was unsure how that sequence began, according to the report.
After being read her Miranda warning, Tirado denied throwing keys at the first victim and grabbing the second victim’s fingers and bending them back. She said she did have a verbal altercation with the third victim that became physical at one point, but the third victim pushed her first and she pushed back, the report said.
When instructed to turn around and place her hands behind her back to placed in handcuffs, Tirado abruptly turned away. She locked her arms and started pushing them away from the center of her body to keep deputies from handcuffing her. Tirado was placed up against the side of the patrol vehicle to keep her from shifting her body in other directions. She continued to lock her arms to keep from being placed in handcuffs. Tirado defied several more commands to comply before deputies managed to get her into handcuffs an inside the vehicle, according to the report.
Tirado was taken to the Marion County Jail, where she was still being held Wednesday on $5,000 bond. She will appear in Marion County Court on Sept. 1.