Alachua County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a local woman Wednesday morning after deputies said she hit her estranged husband with her car and chased him with a bat.
Deputies arrested 41-year-old Tara Lysonya Johnson in response to charges of aggravated assault and battery originally filed by Gainesville Police, wrote GPD spokesman officer Ben Tobias in an email.
At about 6:30 a.m., Johnson went to her husband’s job to find out why he hadn’t come home. After she saw her husband’s ex-girlfriend drop him off, Johnson purposefully hit him with her car, according to an arrest report.
She then stopped the car, pulled a bat from the trunk and began chasing him with it, according to the report.
Johnson drove away after the incident, and deputies later arrested her at her home, according to the report.
Johnson’s husband was taken to UF Health Shands Hospital after feeling hip pain, Tobias wrote.
During questioning, Johnson told police she did not hit her husband with her car and that he jumped on the car and may have fallen off, according to Tobias. She also denied chasing him with a bat.
Deputies booked Johnson into the Alachua County Jail at about 10:30 a.m., where she remained as of press time.
A version of this story ran on page 4 on 1/9/2014 under the headline "Woman arrested after purposefully hitting husband with car"
