A Summerfield woman was arrested after allegedly threatening to strangle a tenant who was late with rent.
A deputy responded to a residence on Southeast 148th Street in Summerfield regarding 38-year-old Desiree Rhiannon Toerpe sending a threatening text to a tennant on Saturday, Dec. 13, according to an arrest report from the Marion County Sheriff’s Office.
The tenant advised that Toerpe was her landlord, and she showed texts exchanged between the two of them that day. Based on the messages listed in the report, the tenant had lived at the residence for two years paying $900 a month and taking care of the house where Toerpe’s mother lived. Toerpe wanted to call her about paying rent that day, which the tenant stated would be paid before the 31st.
Toerpe responded by saying she was “screwing” with her childrens’ Christmas. She added that she had lost her mother’s storage unit and had her phone cut off because the tenant did not pay on time last month. She then told the tenant to pay or be evicted, the report said…