SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n
A man was arrested after police said he attacked an employee at a Burlington store in Altamonte Springs Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
According to the Altamonte Springs Police Department, Ruben Bryant Curtis, 32, was being actively restrained by employees and customers when officers arrived on the scene. <\/p>\n
He was put in handcuffs as police began to conduct their initial investigation, according to the arrest report.<\/p>\n
The victim, who told Curtis to leave the store after Curtis was showing signs of intoxication and inappropriate behavior, was pushed to the ground.<\/p>\n
The arrest report said Curtis was kicking and striking the victim, leaving lacerations on the right upper forehead and both elbows. <\/p>\n
He also threw a shopping cart at the victim while they were on the ground, the report said.<\/p>\n
Police said he was in “an extremely agitated state,” yelling profanities at random people in the area.<\/p>\n
“Curtis appeared to be extremely intoxicated,” the arrest report added. “Curtis’s demeanor was erratic, and he repeatedly yelled and screamed.”<\/p>\n
Police said they were able to detect a strong odor of alcohol.<\/p>\n
He is charged with battery on a person 65 years or older. Curtis is being held without bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A man was arrested after police said he attacked an employee at a Burlington…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[166553,13165,166552,28518,9750,9305,118443,95779,2391,139,141,140,132,166555,166554,3406,3577,6411],"class_list":["post-422003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-altamonte-springs-burlington","tag-arrest-report","tag-burlington-store","tag-curtis","tag-employee","tag-ground","tag-inappropriate-behavior","tag-intoxication","tag-man","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-police","tag-random-people","tag-seminole-county-burlington","tag-shopping-cart","tag-sign","tag-victim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422003","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=422003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}