FHP: Wife faces charges in Christmas party spat
A resident of The Villages retirement community was charged Monday night with domestic battery after her husband pulled over on Florida’s Turnpike in the midst of an argument caused when the couple went to the wrong place for a Christmas party, according to an arrest report.
Gloria Miller,
54, was arrested about 7 p.m. by a Florida Highway Patrol trooper who responded after her husband, Neil Miller, 72, called 911 to report that “his wife was drunk, attacked him breaking his glasses and was outside of the vehicle beating on the windows,” the said.
Neil Miller told the trooper they went to Lakeridge Winery in Clermont for a Christmas party “but when we arrived no one was there so we had the wrong location,” the report said, adding they “got back in the vehicle and she began screaming at me that it was my fault.”
He said his wife, who was wearing Santa leggings, began to “hit and pound on me many times” and that he “lost control of the vehicle many times” as she cursed at him, the report said.
Gloria Miller told a trooper her husband “became report
crazy” after they went to the wrong place for the party, according to the report, and that he punched her and she tried to defend herself.
A trooper didn’t see any visible physical marks on her, the report said.
“During the entire drive to the jail Mrs. Miller cursed myself and her husband out,” the trooper wrote. “Mrs. Miller was very angry and stated how could she beat up her six foot husband.”
The incident took place after the couple pulled off the turnpike while northbound at mile marker 293, which is in Lake County, three miles south of the County Road 470 exit.