Close quarters and tight finances may have finally boiled over for an intoxicated woman who was arrested after allegedly attacking her mother-in-law at the PepperTree Apartments in Wildwood.
Kyle Lynn Tripp, 48, called 911 at about 6:30 p.m. Tuesday to report that her mother-in-law was withholding the keys to her vehicle.
When officers with the Wildwood Police Department arrived at the apartment complex, the mother-in-law explained the vehicle actually belonged to her son, who is Tripp’s husband. When an officer clarified that the vehicle was considered marital property and Tripp had a legal right to access it, the older woman asked, “Even though she hits me and everything?”
According to the arrest report, Tripp told officers she and her husband moved to Florida from Michigan about three years ago and had been living with his mother the entire time. Between sharing the apartment, going through a divorce, and arguing over money, the living arrangement had apparently gotten too close for comfort…