A 91-year-old resident of Spruce Creek South in Summerfield was arrested over the weekend after failing to show up for a court date.
Antonio Ramos was taken into custody Saturday by Marion County sheriff’s deputies on a warrant charging him with failure to appear.
Ramos is facing a charge of battery stemming from an Oct. 1 arrest after he allegedly struck his wife in the chest when she refused to drive home from the Surgery Center of The Villages at SE 109th Terrace Road in Summerfield. Ramos admitted he struck his 82-year-old wife because he “was upset that she would not drive home.” Ramos acknowledged that he should not have struck her, the report said. The wife was not cooperative with law enforcement and said she did not want to see her husband arrested…