A man was arrested after allegedly putting his girlfriend in a headlock and during a dispute over household chores.
Officers responded to a battery at an undisclosed Lady Lake residence around 9:55 a.m. Sunday, according to an arrest report from the Lady Lake Police Department. Upon arrival, they met the female victim inside and 40-year-old Steven James Fox with his son outside. Fox advised that the argument was only verbal and stemmed from a dispute over household chores.
While speaking to the girlfriend, she gave a statement which detailed a verbal argument that escalated into physical violence. She stated Fox pushed her face and put her in a headlock. After the attack, she verbally commanded her Google Home speaker to call emergency services, but he disconnected the device before the call went through, the report said.
Fox then blocked the woman from her cell phone to keep her from contacting law enforcement. She eventually got her secondary phone, which she used to call the police, the report said…