Villager to take anger management class after attack on fellow customer

A Villager has been ordered into anger management after an attack on a fellow customer who cut in line at a Circle K.

Tina Marie Hughes, 65, of the Village of Alhambra, has been ordered to complete an eight-hour anger management course in order to avoid prosecution on a charge of battery. If she successfully completes the course, she will not be prosecuted, according to documents on file in Sumter County Court.

The Ohio native was tracked down after an altercation which took place Feb. 15 at a Circle K at Southern Trace Plaza.

Hughes was apparently irked by another customer “potentially skipping the line,” according to an arrest report from the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office. The two women began to argue. Hughes reached around the other woman, who was at the checkout counter, and “made physical contact with her with her arm and body,” the report said. Hughes proceeded to grab the other woman “multiple times” prompting the other woman to push her…

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