STARKE—Deputies arrested a Sampson City man after he struck a family member in the back of her head with a cell phone.
Jonathan Ray Burns, 29, was booked on an aggravated battery charge.
According to an arrest report, a neighbor called deputies after the victim showed up at the neighbor’s door covered in blood.
Deputy Mark Juen wrote in the report that he made contact with the defendant, who told the officer the victim was being mind-controlled by the television and air conditioner.
“I asked Jonathan what happened to (the victim), and he advised that she cut herself on the back door and had blood all over her chest,” wrote the officer.
Burns later admitted to a physical altercation between himself and the victim and claimed he captured the incident on video.
“Jonathan proceeded to show a video of his senseless babbling about mind control. However, there was no video showing a physical altercation,” the deputy reported.
The victim told Juen that Burns hit her in the back of the head with a cell phone. Juen noted a one-inch laceration on the victim’s head and blood on the woman’s hair and chest. She added that the attack occurred while she was trying to calm Burns down.
“The victim advised that she is scared to call us whenever there are incidents that occur in her residence,” the deputy wrote, “because she has nowhere else to go.”
