Woman arrested for stabbing and biting man at GRACE Marketplace

Staff report

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Jenna Lee Isgar, 31, was arrested yesterday for allegedly biting and stabbing her ex-boyfriend multiple times at GRACE Marketplace.

A Gainesville Police Department officer who responded to GRACE (3055 NE 28th Drive) yesterday for a different incident reported that a witness told him Isgar had stabbed someone on May 21. The officer spoke with the victim, who said Isgar, his ex-girlfriend, had approached him at about 9 p.m. on May 21 and claimed that he had stolen $50 from her and another person earlier that day.

The victim said Isgar punched him in the face while yelling at him about the money and then pushed him away from her; he said the other person rushed over and tackled him to the ground. While he and the other person were wrestling, he said, Isgar came up and stabbed him multiple times in the back and then bit him once on the back of each arm. An unknown person separated the parties, and they all walked away.

The officer reported that the victim had four small punctures on his back that were consistent with being stabbed with a small knife and a longer laceration that looked like a slash from a knife. The victim also reportedly had large bite marks, with broken skin and bruising, on the back of each arm.

The other person told the officer that he saw the victim hit Isgar, so he ran over and tackled the victim to the ground; he and the victim were wrestling on the ground when Isgar ran over and stabbed the victim multiple times in the back with a knife, and then an unknown person separated them.

Post Miranda, Isgar reportedly said she had confronted the victim about stealing $50 and he punched her in the face, so the other person ran over and tackled the victim to the ground. She said that the victim was on top of the other person, choking him, so she bit him on the back of each arm. She denied ever stabbing the victim.

Isgar and the victim were previously in a one-year dating relationship that ended about five months ago, making the incident domestic.

Isgar has been charged with aggravated domestic battery. She has a misdemeanor conviction (non-violent) out of Marion County and was also charged with threatening a woman with a folding knife in Ocala in 2023; the charge was later dropped. Judge Luis Bustamante ordered her held without bail pending a hearing on a motion from the State Attorney’s office to hold her without bail until trial.

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