An Ocala woman was jailed recently after allegedly forcing her way into a home where her children’s father lives and knocking a 78-year-old man to the ground.
The victim told Marion County sheriff’s deputies that 38-year-old Sheridan Louise Martin, of Micanopy, pulled into his driveway. The victim said when he walked to the front door and told Martin she wasn’t welcome there and needed to leave, she pushed her way into the residence. He said the door hit him with “great force,” knocking him to the ground, a sheriff’s office report states.
A witness said she heard the victim tell Martin she was not welcome at the residence and claimed she saw him fall to the ground, the report says, adding that a deputy observed a fresh cut to the top of the victim’s forearm.
Deputies spoke with Martin, who appeared to be “extremely agitated.” She claimed she had been assaulted by a woman at the residence but a cell phone video revealed that only a verbal altercation had taken place, the report says.
Martin then became upset with the deputy who arrested her and verbally combative. The deputy said Martin promised to make his life “a living hell,” the report says.
Martin also said she was at the residence to make contact with her children’s father, who has a protection order against him. The father said he didn’t have any contact with Martin, who “just showed up here uninvited,” the report says.
Deputies placed Martin under arrest and during a pat down they located a vape pen that tested positive for THC. Martin told deputies she has a marijuana card but a computer searched showed that she had never purchased any of the prescriptions that were prescribed to her, according to the report.
Martin was then placed under arrest and transported to the Marion County Jail, where she was charged with burglary with assault or battery and possession of synthetic cannabinoid. She was being held on $27,000 bond and her next court date hasn’t yet been set, jail records show.