An 82-year-old Villages resident has been apprehended for brutally beating a female companion in a driveway in Florida’s Friendliest Hometown.
Jeanne Dale Montross was arrested Thursday on a warrant charging her with violence on a person 65 or older. The exact location of the attack was deleted from the arrest report, but Sumter County property records show Montross and a woman co-own a home in the Village of Hacienda. The Sumter County Sheriff’s Office reported that the women were in a “domestic” relationship.
The arrest follows a May 10 incident that triggered a frantic 911 call from a terrified neighbor. According to the allegation, the neighbor saw Montross continuously kicking and striking down in the driveway in the middle of the afternoon. The witness initially assumed Montross was striking at nothing until two legs sprang in the air from the pavement. The neighbor informed dispatchers that the victim had been yelling and screaming for aid for five to ten minutes while under attack.
Deputies arrived on the scene and saw the victim lying on the driveway in front of a parked SUV. The woman, who had many open and superficial wounds on her arms, told deputies she had been assaulted and hinted Montross was “crazy,” though she had no idea how she ended herself on the ground.
Montross denied having any knowledge of the confrontation or how the woman ended up on the pavement. She had no obvious injuries, but deputies discovered an odd damp spot on her clothes. The police report stated that Montross is known to become “violently impatient” when drinking alcohol and may have undetected dementia.
This is not Montross’s first encounter with the law. In 2021, she was arrested in Falmouth, Massachusetts, on allegations of assault with a dangerous weapon.
Montross was arrested on Thursday and lodged into the Sumter County Detention Center. She was being held without bond owing to the domestic nature of the incident.
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