An Ocala man who spent three months in jail earlier this year is back behind bars after a fight with a woman in a moving vehicle.
Jared Alexander Hanson, 29, was charged with simple battery and possession of methamphetamine, as well as violating his probation from an arrest in March that landed him in the Marion County Jail until June. In that incident, he was charged with battering a person 65 years of age or older, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill and resisting an officer without violence.
In the latest incident, which happened Monday, the victim told a Marion County sheriff’s deputy she was driving her 2020 Mazda and Hanson was in the passenger seat when they got into a verbal altercation. She said Hanson tried to put the vehicle in park while it was moving, according to the sheriff’s office report.
The victim said the argument turned physical when Hanson grabbed her right wrist multiple times. She said he also screamed at her. The victim said Hanson endangered her life by grabbing her wrist while the vehicle was moving, the report said.
The deputy asked Hanson if he had anything illegal on him, and Hanson said he possibly had a small bag of marijuana in his front jeans pocket. Hanson allowed the deputy to search him and nothing illegal was found in his pockets. The deputy observed a brown satchel next to Hanson and asked if it belonged to him, and Hanson said it did. He gave the deputy permission to search the satchel, according to the report.
A search of the satchel turned up a small baggie with a white crystal-like substance inside the front-right pocket next to a prescription pill bottle belonging to Hanson. The substance tested positive for methamphetamine, the report said.
After being read his Miranda warning, Hanson told the deputy the bag of methamphetamine belonged to the victim. He also said nothing physical happened between him and the victim, according to the report.
Hanson was taken to the Marion County Jail, where he was being held Friday on $2,000 bond. He will appear in Marion County Court on Oct. 14.