Alachua woman on probation arrested for throwing cinder blocks at car, breaking windshield and scratching driver’s eye

Staff report

ALACHUA, Fla. – Betty Ann Terry, 50, was arrested last night after allegedly throwing a cinder block at the victim’s vehicle three times, breaking the windshield and scratching the victim’s eye.

At about 7:46 p.m. on April 15, an Alachua Police Department officer responded to the area of NW 151st Avenue and NW 132nd Drive, where the victim reportedly said that she was in her vehicle when Terry started walking up the road toward her, yelling and cursing at her. The victim said Terry tried to reach into her vehicle, but someone pulled her back; Terry allegedly picked up a 45-pound cinder block and threw it at the victim’s windshield as she backed out of the parking lot to leave.

The victim said Terry kept yelling at her and threw the cinder block at her vehicle two more times before Terry left the area; the victim said she believed Terry was trying to kill her.

A witness reportedly said that she was with the victim when she saw Terry screaming at the victim and picking up a cinder block to throw it at the victim’s vehicle. She said Terry threw the cinder block several times, and she appeared to be drunk.

The officer reported that the cinder block was still lying on the windshield of the victim’s vehicle, there were dents in the hood, the windshield was cracked and partially caved in, and there were tiny shards of glass covering the dashboard; the victim was transported to an emergency room because her eye was scratched by a glass shard.

Terry has been charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, throwing a missile into a vehicle, and felony property damage. She has 10 felony convictions (four violent) and nine misdemeanor convictions (three violent), and she has served six state prison sentences, with her most recent release in January 2025. She was arrested in 2022 for throwing grease on a fellow employee at Popeyes; she was sentenced to three years in prison after entering a plea of nolo contendere to aggravated battery causing bodily injury, and she is currently on probation in that case.

Judge Susan Miller-Jones ordered her held without bail pending a hearing on a motion from the State Attorney’s Office to hold her without bail until trial; if the judge denies the motion, bail will be set at that hearing.

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