Overview
- Deputies responded on Feb. 8 to Spruce Creek Country Club in Port Orange after reports of a fight involving up to 20 people, with EMS documenting multiple injuries.
- One victim sustained a facial laceration near his eye that may result in permanent scarring, and a 70-year-old bystander reported a profusely bleeding nose.
- Anthony Sapienza faces aggravated battery causing bodily harm and two counts of battery on a person 65 or older, while Julianne Sapienza faces one elder-battery count.
- An arrest affidavit describes a dispute over the non-volley “kitchen” that escalated from insults to violence, including punches, a paddle strike to the face, and the pushing of a victim’s wife to the ground.
- The pair left the scene and were arrested at their Ponce Inlet home, posted bond, received lifetime bans from the gated community and club, and are due in court on March 3.