A City of Fort Lauderdale employee is accused of throwing vodka in a woman’s face in an unprovoked attack at a park, police said.<\/p>\n
Adrienne Michelle James, 50, was arrested after the incident at Holiday Park on 1150 G. Harold Martin Drive, Fort Lauderdale Police officials said.<\/p>\n
City officials said James is a part-time employee with Fort Lauderdale’s Parks and Recreation Department.<\/p>\n
Police said they responded to a possible battery at the park around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. At the scene, a 72-year-old woman said she’d been involved in an argument that escalated, and the suspect threw a cup of vodka in her face and eyes, according to officials.<\/p>\n
The woman was taken by Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue to Holy Cross Hospital for treatment of minor injuries. <\/p>\n
James was located and taken into custody, police said. <\/p>\n
In a bond court hearing on Friday, a judge found probable cause for the charge of battery on a person 65 years of age or older. <\/p>\n
James’ defense asked the court to consider standard pre-trial detention because she works for the city, lives with her daughter and would have difficulty meeting a monetary bond amount. <\/p>\n
“I imagine the city may take some issue with this,” an arraignment prosecutor replied. “She works for the parks department, this was in a park. She’s attacking someone, a member of the community that’s frequenting the park. There’s an independent witness, there was no provocation for this.”<\/p>\n
James’ bond was set at $2,500. She is prohibited from having contact with the victim and cannot have firearms, weapons or ammunition. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A City of Fort Lauderdale employee is accused of throwing vodka in a woman’s face in an unprovoked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-236163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}