A Leesburg man was arrested for battery after swinging on a security guard in the Lake Square Mall parking lot.
Security at the Lake Square Mall, located at 10401 U.S. Hwy. 441, asked officers to trespass multiple people in the parking lot around 12 a.m. Sunday, according to an arrest report from the Leesburg Police Department. The subjects, including 23-year-old Jacob Ethan Figueroa, were on the opposite side of the building where law enforcement units were.
In the distance, one of the officers saw multiple people in a physical altercation in the center of the parking lot. He got closer to see two mall security guards in a physical altercation with Figueroa. One of them held Figueroa back as he tried to reach for the other, the report said.
All parties were then separated, and Figueroa was detained. He refused to talk, so one of the security guards advised that he spoke to three individuals in the parking lot of the mall. He asked what they were doing, but an argument ensued, the report said…