{"id":359605,"date":"2026-08-01T02:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T02:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/359605\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T02:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T02:49:08","slug":"florida-man-accused-of-wielding-weapon-after-truck-repossessed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/359605\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida man accused of wielding weapon after truck repossessed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florida man accused of wielding weapon after truck repossessed<\/p>\n

\"Hayley<\/a>MARION COUNTY, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n

A Marion County man was arrested Tuesday after allegedly wielding a weapon during a confrontation with two men attempting to repossess his truck in an Ocala neighborhood. <\/p>\n

According to an arrest report from the Marion County Sheriff\u2019s Office, 54-year-old Clifford Duvall allegedly pulled out what was described as a tomahawk or machete while the men were attempting to tow his truck. <\/p>\n

The report states Duvall initially came outside and told the men to stop before getting inside the truck. <\/p>\n

“I jumped in my truck to stop them from doing what they were doing, and I asked them three times before I got in the truck, ‘Please stop doing what you’re doing,'” Duvall said in body-camera footage. <\/p>\n

When Duvall exited the truck, he was holding the weapon, which the sheriff\u2019s office described as metal and “capable of causing serious harm,” according to the arrest report. <\/p>\n

Duvall is accused of removing the object’s sheath, approaching the men, and pointing the weapon at them. <\/p>\n

“I got out and I said, ‘Please, let it down. Please let it down.’ I never threatened them (that) I’d kill them or anything like that. That’s a lie,” Duvall said. <\/p>\n

The arrest report states Duvall swung the weapon and struck the metal cable pulling the truck. A video not yet released by the sheriff\u2019s office reportedly shows him coming within a few feet of the victims while wielding the weapon. <\/p>\n

“You’re pointing at them at least with it, right?” a deputy asked Duvall in body-camera footage. <\/p>\n

“I pointed at that and that controller he was using and that’s it, and that’s it. That’s it. I never pointed at him or swung at him or him. I was talking like this. That’s it,” Duvall said. <\/p>\n

Despite his statements, Duvall was detained and ultimately arrested. He was booked into the Marion County Jail on two felony charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida man accused of wielding weapon after truck repossessed MARION COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A Marion County man was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[146546,13165,2446,91563,12796,28,30,3475,29,146545,88675,3988,146547,660,2631,6525,25411,918],"class_list":["post-359605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-54-year-old-clifford-duvall","tag-arrest-report","tag-body-camera-footage","tag-confrontation","tag-duvall","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-man","tag-florida-news","tag-machete","tag-marion-county-man","tag-metal","tag-ocala-neighborhood","tag-office","tag-sheriff","tag-truck","tag-weapon","tag-wesh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359605","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=359605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}