YALAHA, Florida—A man apparently upset because he believed his neighbor was telling people he is “bipolar” was arrested Monday after the 79-year-old victim told a deputy the man knocked him off his bicycle with his golf cart, according to an arrest affidavit.
The victim told a Lake County Sheriff’s Office deputy, he was riding his bicycle on Magnolia Lane in Yalaha when Charles Dean Ingram, 60, of Yalaha, accused him of telling neighbors he is bipolar. An angry Ingram then struck the victim with his golf cart, knocking him to the ground, the victim said, Ingram did not stop the golf cart following the collision and left the man on the ground, the affidavit states. The victim suffered lesions on his left elbow, ankle and knee.
LCSO spoke with Ingram at his home on Oak Street and he admitted confronting the victim and said he must have fell off his bicycle “by hitting a curb or altered terrain,” the affidavit states. The deputy asked to see Ingram’s golf cart and he observed scrape marks consistent with the height of the bicycle’s pedal and found green paint on the bicycle consistent with the golf cart.
Ingram was arrested for aggravated battery on a person over 65 and transported to the Lake County Jail, where he was released on $10,000 bond.
