A judge allows a villager to return home after allegedly attacking his wife

A judge allowed a husband to return home after allegedly attacking his wife at their home in The Villages.

Documents in the Lake County Courthouse file show that the wife of 59-year-old Tony Black asked the prosecutor’s office to allow her husband to resume “peaceful” contacts with her. On Friday, a judge granted a motion allowing the couple to resume living together.

Black was arrested Sept. 27 after a neighbor heard screams coming from the couple’s home on Pebble Beach Lane in the Village of Orange Blossom Gardens, according to an arrest report filed by Lady Lake police.

A neighbor entered the house and noticed the door was ajar. She tried to open the door, but it was locked from the inside. A neighbor forced the door open and heard Black’s wife “screaming hysterically for help.” The wife told the neighbor that Black, who is 5-foot-10 and weighs 245 pounds, choked her, pulled her hair and prevented her from leaving the house. She indicated that she and Black, who have been married for ten years, “had a falling out over financial matters.”

When his wife tried to leave, Black forcibly removed her Apple Watch and threatened to break her phone. He told her that if she called the police, “they would both die.”

The neighbor took the woman back to the house and contacted law enforcement.

Black, a North Carolina native, remains free on $12,500 bail.