Deputies in Brooksville have claimed that a man was seen using a chain saw to break into a hotel room where he believed that his wife was carrying on a tryst with another man, as reported by Tampa Bay Online.
T.R.B., the man in question, allegedly used a chain saw to break into the hotel room and assault his wife’s companion.
According to the Hernando County Sheriff’s office, the victim reported that he was on a date with T.R.B.’s wife.
T.R.B. was charged with three counts of criminal mischief, armed burglary and battery.
A 911 call about a disturbance just after midnight on March 29 brought Deputy Cari Smith to the Best Western hotel on Cortez Blvd. Her report stated that once she arrived a clerk told her that a man, carrying a chain saw, had entered the hotel searching for his wife.
Further in Smith’s report she revealed that the clerk refused to give the man any information about guests in the hotel. The man then left and went into the hotel’s parking lot.
The clerk then heard a loud cracking sound outside of the hotel. When he went to investigate he found that the man smashed the rear passenger-side door of his vehicle.
Allegedly witnesses in the parking lot saw T.R.B. smash the clerk’s car and break another car’s window with his fist.
From there T.R.B. allegedly returned to the hotel and broke another window, this time with the chain saw, though the saw was not turned on.
After that T.R.B. confronted both his estranged wife, T.B., and her date, E.A.
T.R.B. allegedly grabbed E.A. and punched his face and head three times. When E.A. grabbed a hold of a phone to call the police, T.R.B. fled the scene.
One of the cars T.R.B. smashed belonged to E.A.
E.A. claimed to police that he had only met T.B. a few days prior to their date. He also claimed to have never met T.R.B. before.
E.A. declined any medical attention and had no visible injuries.
T.B. claimed that during her date with E.A. that the two had made the decision to spend the night together at the Best Western hotel. After they heard banging at the door, within seconds, they saw T.R.B. use a window to gain access to their room.
T.B. was not sure how her estranged husband found her; she only commented that he must have just driven around town looking.
Video footage that was taken from the hotel’s surveillance cameras by the hotel manager will be submitted as evidence.
Smith collected a chain saw that she found close to T.R.B.’s vehicle and it will be taken into evidence.
Smith apprehended T.R.B. in his home after the incident. She asked if he had been injured and he said that one of his fingers hurt.
This, he stated, was from “the window or his (E.A.’s) head.”
T.R.B. was booked at the Hernando County Jail and his total bond was set for $26,500. According to the sheriff’s office, T.R.B. has since requested an attorney.
If you have been charged with a crime, with witnesses lining up against you making allegations about your actions, you need to contact a criminal defense lawyer as soon as possible for help with your case.
