A Villager known as “Pickleball Billy” had his bond revoked as the result of an alleged incident at a postal station.
William Leonard Hartig, 78, who has become well known as a USA Pickleball ambassador in The Villages, will be held indefinitely without bond at the Sumter County Detention Center for defying a judge’s order.
His original arrest came after the Massachusetts native was caught on surveillance crossing onto a neighbor’s property in the Hallandale Villas in the Village of St. Charles, according to arrest reports from the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office. Hartig had been formally banned by a trespass order from the property of the neighbor, a man in his 70s.
Hartig was released from the jail on March 7. At the time of his release, a judge warned Hartig not to enter his neighbor’s property and not to try to contact him. Hartig signed a “Receipt of No Victim Contact Order,” prior to his release, indicting he understood the judge’s order.
However, earlier this month, the neighbor went to retrieve his mail at a postal station and Hartig was there…