Telegraph Staff Writer
STARKE— A Starke woman was sentenced to 45 days in jail for fighting in the parking lot of North Florida Technical College.
During a hearing on July 11, Judge D. Tatum Davis credited Tatianna Latrice Shannon for 45 days already served and ordered the 25-year-old to pay a $50 fine.
In a March 13 arrest report, School Resource Officer David Bukowski wrote that after being informed of a disturbance, he went to the parking lot, where he saw school staff members trying to separate the two women.
Shannon told the officer that she came to the campus to talk to her ex-boyfriend and her child’s father, an adult student at the college.
When Shannon arrived at the school, she found the man’s current girlfriend: Errica Chante Smith, 23, also in the parking lot. The two women began to argue, and the dispute escalated.
Shannon told Bukowski she was bitten in the facial area, and the officer noted visible marks on the woman’s face.
Smith claimed she was bitten on the hand.
Both women, neither of whom were students at the school, were evaluated by EMS and arrested for fighting on the campus.
In June, Smith signed a deferred prosecution agreement. If she fulfills the terms of the contract, the State will drop charges against her.
