Overview
- Deputies say the 63-year-old volunteer aggressively confronted shoppers outside a Publix on Kanner Highway in Stuart.
- Witnesses reported he tried to "spear" the manager in the chest with the kettle stand, according to the arrest report.
- He fled before law enforcement arrived, was found at his residence, and was taken into custody; he was booked into the Martin County Jail.
- Jail records list charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill and resisting or obstructing an officer without violence, with bonds of $2,500 and $500.
- The sheriff’s office said he had been ringing the bell at that location since Thanksgiving as a part-time volunteer.