A 38-year-old heir to one of the largest sugar-producing companies in the country was arrested this week for allegedly beating a woman in a fit of rage brought on because they had been seated next to a gay couple at a trendy steakhouse in Florida.
Alexander N. Fanjul was taken into custody on Monday and charged with a spate of crimes, including one count each of domestic battery by strangulation, robbery, and false imprisonment of an adult, court records obtained by Law&Crime show.
Fanjul’s family owns and operates subsidiary companies such as Florida Crystals, Domino Sugar, and American Sugar Refining.
According to a probable cause affidavit, Palm Beach police responded at about 11:30 p.m. on Sunday to a noise complaint at a home in the 200 block of El Dorado Lane. The caller reported hearing a woman screaming at the address.
First responders said they opened the gate to the property and “observed a male subject, later identified as Alexander N. Fanjul, standing over a female subject” who was “on the floor in a defensive ‘fetal’ position and observed to be bleeding from the facial area.”