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Christmas dispute lands man in jail

He allegedly hit his girlfriend.

By JIM ROSS
Published December 27, 2006

A Christmas Day argument turned violent, leaving a woman injured and her boyfriend in jail, authorities say.

The woman, whose name was not included in an arrest report, told a deputy that Eric Faivre struck her in the mouth Monday night outside an Inverness business.

She had gone there, she later told the deputy, to call her son. She said Faivre, 37, of Inverness had ripped the phone from the wall of the home where they had been arguing.

She said Faivre was upset that no relatives had called on Christmas.

When friends drove her to the business on West Main Street - the business' name wasn't included in the report - he followed and then confronted her.

The deputy arrived about 7 p.m. and saw blood on the ground, on the phone and on the woman's mouth and shirt, the report said.

Faivre wasn't there when the deputy arrived, the report said. Later Monday night, he went to the Citrus County jail in Lecanto. Officials contacted the deputy, who went to the jail and had Faivre complete a written statement about what happened.

Faivre was booked into the jail on a felony charge of domestic battery. He was held without bail. The deputy noted that Faivre's neck was scratched, indicating a possible physical dispute.

A court record shows Faivre already awaits trial on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. That stems from a July arrest when he was accused of threatening a woman with a pool cue.

- A 73-year-old Hernando man was arrested late Christmas Day on a charge of drunken driving after his vehicle hit a fence on E Lake Park Drive.

A deputy received word of the accident just before 11 p.m. Monday. He found a green Mazda Miata convertible at the accident scene, but the driver wasn't there.

He found the registration in the glove box and went to the home of the vehicle owner, Grant R. Schlenker, an arrest report said.

Schlenker told the deputy about the accident and said he had come home to retrieve a truck and extract the Miata, which was stuck in the dirt.

The deputy smelled alcohol on Schlenker's breath and asked him about it, the report said. Schlenker said he had been drinking vodka and Squirt soda during the day; he said he had not had a drink since the accident.

Two breath tests showed Schlenker's blood-alcohol level at 0.087 and 0.085. A blood-alcohol level of 0.08 percent is the threshold at which Florida law presumes that someone is unable to safely drive a motor vehicle.

Schlenker was booked into the jail and held in lieu of $500 bail. He also received a ticket for careless driving. 

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